Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Mr. Bowen.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 19, 1902.

(Mr. Hay states that all the powers seem inclined to accept the principle of arbitration; that the Government of the United States think the selection of The Hague tribunal would be judicious, with the reservation of certain questions which might be settled directly, and that no reply has been received to the suggestion of Mr. Bowen’s name as plenipotentiary of Venezuela.)