Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Hay to Mr. Russell.

Department of State,
Washington, May 15, 1903.

No. 117.]

Sir: You will inform the Venezuelan Government that the President has named—

1. General Henry H. Duffield, a distinguished lawyer of Detroit, Mich., and one of the most prominent men in the west, to act as umpire on the German-Venezuelan claims commission to sit at Caracas on June 1 next; and

2. Mr. Jackson H. Ralston, who appeared for the United States as its agent in the Pious Fund case before The Hague Tribunal, as umpire on the Italian-Venezuelan claims commission, to sit at Caracas on the same day.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.