Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Wright.

Department of State,
Washington, September 20, 1906.

No. 31.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 45, of the 11th ultimo, concerning the open door in Manchuria and the importance of the establishment of customs-houses there.

The department entertains the confident hope that the good disposition evidenced by Japan will tend actively to the early adjustment of all these commercial questions in Manchuria.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.