Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

Ambassador White to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Rome, August 13, 1906.

(Mr. White, referring to instruction No. 114, reports that he has just ascertained from the under secretary for foreign affairs that Italian consuls have been instructed to discontinue the examination of meat products and to confine themselves in future to authenticating certificates issued by our Agricultural Department under new act, and that the instructions now revoked were issued by the chief of the public health department, a branch of the ministry of interior, without consultation with or knowledge of foreign office.)