Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Pekin, November 21, 1900.

(Mr. Conger refers to his telegram of the 6th November, and states that the Russian minister is still opposed to the second proposition, and that the German and English ministers have, for the present, instructions not to sign the note without it. Mr. Conger deems it one of the most important demands. He asks instructions upon the suggestion in the last paragraph of his telegram of the 6th, Mr. Hay’s telegram of the 9th not covering that point. The Department’s reply will be anxiously awaited.)