Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Minister Gummeré to Acting Secretary of State Adee.

American Legation,
Tangier, July 31, 1905.

Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s cablegram of July 29, 1905, as follows, viz:

Referring to your No. 25, you will advise minister of foreign affairs that the Government of the United States will take part in the proposed conference and will announce its representatives when the time and place of meeting are determiued.

Adee.

I beg to report that pursuant to the said instructions of the Department I have written to Sid Hadj Mohammed Ben Arby Torres, minister for foreign affairs, now at Fez, informing him that I have been instructed by my government to advise him that the Government of the United States will take part in the proposed conference and will announce its representatives when the time and place of meeting are determined. I beg to inclose a copy of my said letter to the minister for foreign affairs.

I am, etc.,

S. R. Gummeré.

[Inclosure.]

Minister Gummeré to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Tangier, July 31, 1905

After compliments.

In further reply to your excellencys letter of May 29, 1905, in which you inform me that you have been ordered by your master the Sultan to request all the great powers to hold a conference composed of their representatives and those appointed by the Maghzen to discuss certain matters relating to reform in His Shereefian Majesty’s Empire, etc., I have now to inform your excellency that I am instructed by my government to advise your excellency that the Government of the United States will take part in the proposed conference and will announce its representatives when the time and place of meeting are determined.

In peace.

S. R. Gummeré.