Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 3, 1894

Mr. Denby, minister, to Mr. Gresham.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Peking, October 30, 1894. (Received December 10.)

Sir: When I arrived at Yokohama I intended to leave on the first ship that was bound for Shanghai. I was induced to delay my departure three days in order to see Viscount Mutsu, secretary for foreign affairs, who proposed to come up from Hiroshima to see me. My interview with the secretary was not important.

It soon appeared that he emphatically repudiated the idea that American consuls could exercise jurisdiction over Chinese in Japan. The whole question, therefore, both in China and Japan, remains exactly as ordered by you.

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I have, etc.,

Charles Denby.