Navy, and Captain Crobs, of the Federal infantry; by the steamer Loubenbach, Captain Betts, on board of which were embarked Mr. McLeary, supreme judge of Porto Rico; Mr. Harlan, attorneygeneral, and Mr. Geltz, correspondent of the New York Herald, as well as by the sloop Dauntless. In conformity with the wish expressed to me by Mr. Delcassé, I should be very much obliged to you if you would be so kind as to kindly convey to all those generous donors the thanks of the Government of the Republic. In thanking you in advance, I beg you, Mr. Secretary, to accept, etc., P. DE MARGERIE. Mr. Hill to Mr. de Margerie. No. 492.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, July 31, 1902. SIR: In compliance with the request contained in your note of the 24th instant, it has given me pleasure to make known to the persons named in your note that the Government of the French Republic thanks them for such assistance as they rendered to the sufferers from the recent volcanic eruption in Martinique. Accept, etc., DAVID J. HILL, Mr. de Margerie to Mr. Hay. [Translation.] EMBASSY OF FRANCE, Washington, September 25, 1902. MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: The minister of foreign affairs, after perusing Captain Gallagher's report, who was requested to carry to Martinique the assistance which the Government and people of the United States granted for the victims of the catastrophe of May 8, has directed me to renew the expression of thanks from the Government of the Republic for the generous initiative displayed by the Government of the United States toward the afflicted people of our colony. I esteem myself particularly happy, Mr. Secretary of State, to be directed to perform that agreeable duty, and I beg you to accept the renewed assurance of my high consideration. Mr. Adee to Mr. de Margerie. P. DE MARGERIE. No. 509.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 30, 1902. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant, expressing anew the thanks of the Government of the French Republic for the aid extended by the United States to the sufferers in the recent volcanic eruption of Mont Pélée. It was with gratification that I made this known to the Secretary of the Navy. Accept, etc., ALVEY A. ADEE, PROTECTION OF CUBAN INTERESTS BY UNITED STATES CON No. 1035.] SULAR OFFICIALS. Mr. Vignaud to Mr. Hay. EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your cable" of the 24th ultimo, instructing the embassy to ascertain whether the French Government would have any objection to our consuls using temporarily their good offices in representation of the interests of Cuba and of its citizens, and to notify the consuls if permission is granted. The French Government having promptly acquiesced in our desire, I have notified Consuls-General Gowdy and Skinner and asked them to advise the consuls in their respective districts. I have, etc., HENRY VIGNAUD. PROTECTION OF FRENCH CABLE IN HAITI BY UNITED STATES OFFICIALS. Mr. de Margerie to Mr. Adee. [Telegram.-Translation.] EMBASSY OF FRANCE, Manchester, Mass., August 7, 1902. I receive from the manager of the French Cable Company at New York a telegram saying that the Haitian vessel Crête à Pierrot intends to cut the cables of the company. The superintendent of the station of the French Cable Company at Port au Prince has informed the commander of the American cruiser Machias of this danger. Commander McCrea seems to be disposed to protect the cable which lands in Haiti, but he would be glad to receive instructions from the Navy Department at Washington on the subject. I should be very grateful to you, if you see no objection, if you would request the Navy Department to send at once, by cable, to the commander of the Machias the necessary instructions to protect the French cable in Haiti from any attempt at destruction, all nations being equally interested in the working of this cable. PIERRE DE MARGERIE, a Printed, page 6. FR 1902, PT 1—27 No. 496.] Mr. Adee to Mr. de Margerie. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 11, 1902. SIR: I have the honor to inform you that your telegram of the 7th instant was at once sent to the Navy Department, and that that Department has instructed the commanding officer of the Machias to act in his discretion to prevent any destructive or injurious act against foreign interests or property in Haiti not in the line of hostilities. Accept, etc., ALVEY A. ADEE, AMENDATORY AND ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT TO THE COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT OF MAY 28, 1898. Signed at Washington, August 20, 1902. Proclaimed, August 22, 1902. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the United States and the French Republic have concluded, on August 20, 1902, an Amendatory and Additional Agreement to the Commercial Agreement of May 28, 1898, between the same contracting parties, entered into in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, which Amendatory and Additional Agreement is, in the English and French texts, word for word as follows: The United States of America and the French Republic, finding it expedient to amend the Commercial Agreement between the two countries, signed at Washington on the 28th day of May, 1898, have named for this purpose their respective Plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State of the United States of America; and The President of the French Republic, Mr. Pierre de Margerie, Chargé d'Affaires of France at Washington; Who, after having communicated each to the other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the following additional and amendatory articles to be taken as part of said Agreement: ARTICLE I. The High Contracting Parties mutually agree that the provisions of the said Agreement shall apply also to Algeria and the Island of Porto Rico. It is further agreed on the part of the French Republic that coffee, the product of Porto Rico, shall enjoy until the 23rd day of February, 1903, the benefit of the minimum customs tariff of France on that article. ARTICLE II. This Amendatory and Additional Agreement shall take effect from and after the date of the President's Proclamation which shall give effect thereto, and shall be and continue in force during the continuance in force of the said Commercial Agreement, signed May 28th, 1898. Done in duplicate in English and French texts at Washington this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two. ALVEY A. ADEE PIERRE DE MARGERIE [SEAL] [SEAL Now therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, have caused the said Amendatory and Additional Agreement to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh. By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE Acting Secretary of State. THEODORE ROOSEVELT ACCIDENT TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. President Loubet to President Roosevelt. [Telegram.-Translation.] SEPTEMBER 4, 1902. The report of the awful accident to which you came near falling a victim has just reached me, and I hear that you have happily escaped. I wish to express to you my very sincere felicitations and to renew to you the assurance of my constant friendship. JEWS IN ROUMANIA-DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST, CONDITION OF HELPLESSNESS TO WHICH THEY ARE REDUCED, AND OBJECTION OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO IMMIGRATION OF SUCH PERSONS. No. 1090.] Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay. EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, Paris, September 26, 1902. SIR: Your printed circular" relative to the Jews of Roumania was duly received and, availing myself of the authorization given me by your unnumbered instruction of August 12, I left a copy of it with Mr. Delcassé. The next time I saw him he spoke of the circular, said he had read it with interest, and asked several questions about the condition of the emigrants of the class referred to coming to the United States. He did not give any expression of his views, the subject not having yet been officially considered. I have, etc. HORACE PORTER. PASSPORT ERRONEOUSLY ISSUED TO G. L. ROSENBAUM WITHOUT PROOF OF HIS FATHER'S NATURALIZATION.-SPECIAL PASSPORTS NOT TO BE ISSUED BY DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD. No. 1071.] Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, October 14, 1902. SIR: Your No. 1095, of the 1st instant, forwarding returns of passports issued by your embassy during the quarter ending on the preceding day, has been received. Passport No. 1377 was issued by the embassy on August 2, 1902, to Gaston Leon Rosenbaum, upon an application showing that he was born at Wiesbaden, Germany, his father having been naturalized previous to his birth. No proof was exacted of his father's naturalization. Cases of the category to which this one belongs are of frequent occurrence and the Department's rules with reference to them are well settled. The applicant must establish his father's naturalization by the exhibition of the certificate of naturalization. The proof submitted by the applicant must be "equivalent to that which would be required of him (the father) if he were in the United States applying for a passport for himself." (See The American Passport, p. 101.) As the Department frequently rejects applications where this proof is not submitted, it is of great importance that our embassies abroad should not act favorably upon such applications. You are instructed, therefore, to communicate with Mr. Rosenbaum, if you can possibly do so, and secure from him the proof which should have been exacted before the passport was issued, and if he can not produce such proof his passport should be withdrawn. On September 1, 1902, your embassy issued passport No. - to Philip M. Brown, second secretary of the legation of the United States at Constantinople, and charged no fee. a Printed under Austria, page 42. |