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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Jackson.

Department of State,
Washington, November 27, 1899.

No. 971.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch, No. 1067, of the 8th instant, relative to your conversation with Baron von Rheinbaben in regard to the three New York life insurance companies, I have to inform you that the Department fully approves of the discreet manner in which you communicated to the minister the contents of its telegram of the 28th ultimo.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.