After the tremendous eight weeks’ tension had relaxed, and before the final reduction to writing of all the details, we see this dear little telegram, from Secretary of State Hay, himself a writer of note, come bravely paddling into port, where it was cordially received by both sides, taken in out of the wet, and put under the shelter of the treaty:
Mr. Hay to Mr. Day: In renewing conventional arrangements do not lose sight of copyright agreement.
And here is the last act of the drama:
Mr. Day to Mr. Hay, Paris, December 10, 1898: Treaty signed at 8.50 this evening.
[1] Senate Document 62, pt. 1, 55th Cong., 3d Sess., 1898–9, p. 283.
[2] Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, now (1912) President of the National City Bank, New York, in the Century Magazine, August, 1898.
[3] S. D. 148, p. 15.
[4] Navy Department Report for 1898, Appendix, p. 122.