462.11 Se 8/48
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
My Dear Mr. President: I enclose an instruction to our Ambassador at Berlin relative to the William P. Frye case.65 It is in response [Page 487] to the German note on the subject dated September 19—the original of which I also enclose.66
You will perceive that we accept the proposal for a joint commission of experts to fix the amount of indemnity and also agree to submit to arbitration the controversy as to the interpretation of the Treaty of 1828. As the submission to arbitration will be by compromis it will be necessary to lay it before the Senate for their consent. For this reason I am troubling you with the matter.
I believe the course proposed in the telegram to be advisable, as it will close the interchange of notes on the subject.
Faithfully yours,
- For the instruction as sent, see Foreign Relations, 1915, supp., p. 570.↩
- ibid., p. 551.↩