Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Sir Julian Paunceforte.

Department of State,
Washington, May 29, 1893.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 24th instant, in relation to the Welland Canal toll controversy.

As the main question has been disposed of in a frank and equitable spirit, as befits the large interests of the two countries involved in the lake-canal transits, it does not appear needful to regard the exceptions now taken to certain passages of Mr. Foster’s note of December 31, 1892, as more than a concluding and explanatory chapter of the record in the case.

I have, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.