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

File No. 812.512/731.

Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]

Vera Cruz, July 26, 1915.

Department’s July 23. Department of Hacienda informed me this afternoon that tomorrow recommendation will be made by telegraph permitting the old tax to be effective for the present quarter only, “not because the new rate is unjust but as a temporary concession in view of the circumstances related by the Consul General.”

Silliman.