Office of the Historian

Mr. Sherman to Count Vinci.

Department of State,
Washington, April 9, 1898.
No. 319.]

Sir: Referring to the Department’s note of the 5th instant, I have the honor to inclose for your information copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that his order abolishing the Italian bureau at the immigration station at the port of New York has been temporarily suspended.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman.
[Inclosure in No. 319.]

Mr. Gage to Mr. Sherman.

Treasury Department,
Office of the Secretary,
Washington, D. C., April 5, 1898.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, in consequence of the representations of your letter of the 2d instant and of the telegram from Hon. William F. Draper, our ambassador to Italy, the order of March 25, 1898, abolishing the Italian bureau at the immigration station at the port of New York, to take effect on the 15th instant, has been temporarily suspended.

Respectfully, yours,

L. J. Gage, Secretary.