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

Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, July 2, 1905.

Notified Count Lamsdorff at 2.30 o’clock p.m. that the President would announce on Monday the appointment of plenipotentiaries by name, stating that they would be clothed with full powers to negotiate and conclude treaty of peace subject to ratification by home governments. This action fully approved by him. Count Lamsdorff stated that this evening he would send me the names of the five delegates who would act as specialists on different subjects and would accompany the plenipotentiary Mouravieff. * * *

Meyer.