[Telegram per cable.]
Mr. Seward to Mr. Johnson.
Department of State, Washington,
November 7, 1868.
San Juan protocol right, except President Switzerland must be named arbitrator. Claims protocol will meet opposition. Amendment of San Juan’s protocol as proposed very important. I supposed Switzerland understood. Procure protocol so amended. Refer Stanley to Lyons’s letter to Cass, December 10th, 1860. Lyons wrote Cass that British government proposed arbiter, King Netherlands, King Sweden, President Switzerland. Cass resigned. Correspondence ended there. Copy Lyons’s letter goes by mail.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Reverdy Johnson, Esq., &c., &c., &c.