Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Lord to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Buenos Ayres, July 5, 1901.

Mr. Lord reports that the Argentine Government has been constrained to declare its capital in a state of siege for a period of six months, owing to public disorder caused by opposition to the bill consolidating the public debt, pending in Congress.