Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 882.51/676.

The Secretary of State to Minister Buckner.

Department of State,
Washington, January 26, 1915.

26. Clark’s January 25. Yes, bankers consider that maintenance police force essential to proper collection customs, and that article 4, agreement, gives authority to pay force as one of first liens against assigned revenues.

Bryan.