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. Storer.

Department of State,
Washington, April 9, 1903.

No. 26.]

Sir: Mr. Rives’s No. 19, of the 18th ultimo, has been received.

The recognition accorded by the Austro-Hungarian Government to John Steel Twells as “commercial (consular) agent” of the United States at Carlsbad is regarded by the Department as sufficient.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.