Upon this matter you are instructed that the embassy has no power to issue special passports. They must always emanate from this Department, and under the ruling of Mr. Sherman, Secretary of State (see The American Passport, pp. 31 et seq.), the Department exacts for special, as for ordinary, passports the fee of $1, as the law requires it to do. The Department's agents abroad can not exercise a privilege which the Department itself does not exercise. As the application of Mr. Brown was not included in the statement of passports issued, it is herewith returned, and you are instructed to withdraw the passport now in Mr. Brown's hands and substitute for it a regular passport bearing a serial number, for which you will exact the fee required by the law and the Department's instructions. If Mr. Brown desires a special passport describing his official rank he may obtain one by communicating with this Department. I am, etc., JOHN HAY. GERMANY. VISIT OF PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA TO THE UNITED STATES. Emperor William to President Roosevelt. [Telegram.] BERLIN, January 10, 1902. Most gratified at your kind permission for Miss Roosevelt's performing christening ceremony at launch of my yacht. It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that I have ordered my yacht Hohenzollern to cross over and to be present at the ceremony. My brother, Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, will appear as my representative, rejoin the yacht, and will be able to express to you once more my sincere feelings of friendship for the United States and their illustrious head. WILLIAM II. President Roosevelt to Emperor of Germany. [Telegram.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 10, 1902. I am much gratified at Your Majesty's purpose to send your yacht Hohenzollern to be present at the christening of your new yacht by my daughter, and I assure you of a hearty welcome for your brother, Admiral Prince Henry, to whom I can personally express my cordial feelings of esteem for Your Majesty and my earnest wishes for the prosperity of the German people. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. White to Mr. Hay. No. 1837.] EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: I have the honor to report that, yesterday being the Emperor's birthday, I then, with the diplomatic corps, made the usual visit of congratulation to the palace, attended the religious service, and was afterwards received by His Majesty. Our conversation related entirely to the approaching visit of Prince Henry to the United States, with which the Emperor seemed especially pleased. I may add that, during the past week, I have had several conversations with the Prince on the subject of his journey, one being at the house of the secretary of state for foreign affairs and two at my own hotel, and in each of these he spoke of his visit with evident satisfaction. During his dinner with me on Friday I received three long telegrams from organizations in the United States desirous of offering hospitality to him, and since that there have come several more; but I have referred the senders to His Majesty's ambassador at Washington, and have in no case sought to influence the Prince as to the routes he should take or the things he should see, save in answering to the best of my ability requests made by him or by members of his suite for information. I have also had conversations with the chancellor, Count von Bülow, and the secretary of state for foreign affairs, Baron von Richthofen, upon the same general subject, and especially regarding a reception proposed by the press of the United States at New York. There seemed for a time some doubts regarding its acceptance here, the doubt apparently arising from the fact that the initiative in the matter was taken by a German journal at New York; but in answer to questions from the chancellor and the secretary for foreign affairs I expressed the opinion that this fact did not really militate against the character of the invitation as American, this answer to them being, in my opinion, authorized by telegrams received at this embassy from leading persons connected with the American press in no way devoted to German interests. I remain, etc., No. 1886.] Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay. AND. D. WHITE. EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: I have the honor to append hereto a clipping from last night's issue of the North German Gazette, containing a semiofficial statement with regard to the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to the United States, as well as a translation of the article in question. Last night a telegram (for Ambassador White) was received from Prince Henry, reading as follows: Though glad to be homeward bound, can not tell you how thankful I am for reception met with in your country. Yesterday, in conversation at the foreign office, Baron Richthofen spoke most cordially of the welcome which had been extended to Prince Henry, and of the satisfaction felt that everything had passed off so smoothly. * * * The German papers have printed long telegrams during the whole course of the visit and longer mail reports are now beginning to appear. Comment has generally been favorable and much satisfaction is expressed at the reception given to a German prince. * I think that one of the results of the visit will be that Americans traveling or doing business throughout Germany will receive more friendly treatment generally, and that our fellow-citizens of German origin will be less liable to be molested while sojourning at their former homes. JOHN B. JACKSON. I have, etc., [Inclosure.] The semiofficial North-German Gazette says: BERLIN, March 11. "His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia leaves to-day the hospitable shores of the United States of America and enters upon his homeward journey on board the steamship Deutschland. His voyage to New York to take part in the launch of His Imperial Majesty's yacht Meteor, his visit to the Federal capital, Washington, and to many other places of importance in American history and civilization, as was fully understood on either side without the necessity of admonition from any third party, had no political object in view. In the consolidation of the traditional friendly feeling between two great nations, the future of which is full of hope and which are full of energy, in the renewal of ancient confidence, in the testimony borne to the lively appreciation which the genius of the Americans for valuable work in the service of civilization finds precisely in that European country which has supplied the great Republic with so many valiant citizens in all this we recognize the significance of Prince Henry's mission. The successful fulfillment of this mission enables both the German and the American nations to look back with unalloyed satisfaction upon these days of festival, which now belong to history. For this achievement in the service of the peace of nations our thanks are due to His Majesty the Emporer, who caused the journey to be undertaken, and to His Royal Highness Prince Henry, who has accomplished it with such happy success. In no less degree have we to thank the President, the Government, and the people of the United States for the hospitable, chivalrous, and splendid reception which they have accorded to the brother of the German Emperor. And side by side with the official honors which have been so lavishly paid to the representative of our ruler, our land, and our people, we remember with with full measure of gratitude the unnumbered thousands of American men and women who have everywhere bidden a joyous and unfeigned welcome to the German prince. It is precisely from such wholly spontaneous demonstrations of friendship from all classes of a proud people that we gather the assurance that the good spirit which has been manifested both in Germany and in America by the visit of our Hohenzollern Prince to the land of George Washington will continue to work to the advantage of both peoples in the politically unclouded relations between the German Empire and the United States." No. 1899.] Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay. EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: Referring to my dispatch No. 1886, of the 12th instant, I have the honor to report that Prince Henry of Prussia arrived in Germany safely yesterday afternoon; that he was met at Cuxhaven by the German Emperor, and that he at once started for his home at Kiel. Captain Beehler, of the embassy, went to Cuxhaven to greet the Prince on his return, and I sent a congratulatory telegram to him to the same place, as response to the telegram sent by him to Mr. White just before he left New York. In conversation at the foreign office yesterday, Baron Richthofen again referred to the Prince's visit to the United States, and expressed his thanks for the hospitality and courtesies extended; and other people of all classes have spoken to me in similar terms. As already stated, in no responsible quarter is it anticipated that Prince Henry's visit will have any definite political or commercial result, but confidence is felt that "it will bear beautiful flowers, if not fruit;" that the efforts of those opposed to our having closer relations with Germany will be less liable to do harm; that the transmission of news may be more direct, and the efforts to exaggerate the importance of every irresponsible, unfriendly statement may be discontinued; and that the consideration of international questions-political and economic will be approached with mutual feelings of friendliness. Prince Henry's visit has been described as the "rediscovery of America," and one of its results has been to open the eyes of Germany generally to the growth and importance of the United States. Increased acquaintance with the United States is warmly advocated in important educational and industrial circles as being of reciprocal advantage, and it is probable that in the future many more Germans of "the better classes" will visit America as tourists than heretofore. A more intimate acquaintance with the United States and a better knowledge of our people, our institutions, and resources can not fail to be of advantage to Germany and the rest of Europe, and it is hard to see wherein it can be otherwise than beneficial to us as well. I have, etc., JOHN B. JACKSON. P. S. March 20, 1902. The following telegram was received by me from Prince Henry to-day from Kiel: Pray accept for yourself and members of embassy my best thanks for the welcome on my return from the United States. Shall never forget the cordial and splendid hospitality I met with in your country and the kindness shown to me by the American people. J. B. J. FOREIGN POLICY OF GERMANY-RÉSUMÉ OF SPEECHES OF CHANCELLOR COUNT BÜLOW RELATIVE TO CHINA, VISIT OF PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA TO THE UNITED STATES, WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA, ETC. No. 1876.] Mr. White to Mr. Hay. EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: I have the honor to report that on Monday, the 3d instant, several important statements were made by the chancellor, Count Bülow, in the Reichstag, in connection with the second reading of the appropriation bills for the China expedition and for the foreign office. Count Bülow spoke twice during the session. The first speech related entirely to China and the recent AngloJapanese convention. To this convention, Count Bülow said, no exception could be taken by Germany, as it did not in any way interfere with the Anglo-German agreement of October 16, 1900, with regard to the Yangtze Valley, or with the declarations exchanged by the several powers with regard to the "open door." He stated positively that Germany did not cooperate in the negotiation of this convention, and had not been officially communicated with in regard to it until after it had been signed. The chancellor then went on to refer to certain reports (sent from Pekin by the correspondent of the London Times), to the effect that Germany was endeavoring to obtain certain exclusive rights in Shantung. These reports he characterized as a "canard" whose neck could not be wrung quickly enough. He said that in Shantung Germany demands the open door; that is, "the same liberty of economic activity to which we do not object in the case of other nations in Shantung and all other parts of China." With reference to the withdrawal of German troops he said that these troops would not be left in China any longer than was considered politically necessary, and that negotiations were now going on between the powers on this subject. He again referred to the fact that of the interested powers Germany had no point d'appui near China, while England, Japan, Russia, and France were more favorably situated |