Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 5301/2.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Wilson.

Department of State,
Washington, April 3, 1907.

No. 97.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 157, of the 7th ultimo, referring to the complaint of a company dealing in American lubricating oils that the Belgian Government discriminated against such products by inserting in the specifications of supply bids for furnishing oils to the government railways the requirement of “Russian” origin.

Your correspondence with the Belgian Government, resulting in its removal of the discrimination, copies of which accompany your dispatch, have been read with interest; and the department desires to commend your action and to express gratification at the success of your representations.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.