Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, September 27, 1895.

No. 1162.]

Sir: I have received your No. 2313, in explanation of the announcement that you had consented that the British consul at Chungking should represent American interests on the Chengtu commission.

Your note to the Tsung-li Yamên, inclosed in dispatch No. 2278, of July 1, and your letter to Mr. Spencer Lewis, asking him to act as commissioner, sent with your No. 2288, of July 12, had previously convinced the Department of the erroneous character of this announcement.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney

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