Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Minister Russell to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Caracas, Venezuela, November 12, 1905.

No. 28.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that Mr. José Ignacio Diaz Granados, confidential agent of Colombia, has arrived in Caracas.

Mr. Granados’s mission is to endeavor to reestablish diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela, and he brings with him the draft of a protocol establishing the frontier between the two countries.

Mr. Granados brought to me a private letter from the Colombian minister for foreign affairs, asking me to use my friendly offices to aid in bringing about an understanding with Venezuela, and I think the moment is favorable for conferring with the Venezuelan Government in the line of the instructions to me in Washington of August 4 last.

I am, etc.,

William W. Russell.