Mr. Hay to Mr. Grip.
Washington , March 5, 1904 .
My Dear Mr. Minister: Referring to the memorandum of March 1 which you left with Mr. Adee, in regard to the action of the Santo Domingan authorities in preventing the landing of the Norwegian steamship Farmand, chartered by Messrs. Hugh Kelly & Co., of New York, I have the pleasure to inform you that, in reply to my letter communicating your memorandum to the Navy Department, I am to-day in receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the Navy stating that the naval officers in Santo Domingan waters were instructed in the premises by cable on March 3 and directed to use their good offices to enable the vessel to follow its normal course.
I am, etc.,