Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

The German Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

German Embassy , February 27, 1899 .

memorandum.

The German Government is sending two officials, counselors of state, Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein and Mr. Hoppe, representing the ministry of the interior, to the United States to confer with the heads of the three life insurance companies, the Mutual, Equitable, and the New York Life, to agree on a method which may enable them to resume their business in Prussia at an early date. The Prussian Government will pay the necessary expenses.