Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 4, 1899.

This Government has no objection to England and Germany coming to a preliminary agreement about Samoan Islands west of the one hundred and seventy-first meridian, subject, of course, to concurrence of the United States.

Hay.