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_To the House of Representatives_:
In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of March
24, 1900, reading as follows:
WHEREAS the commercial community of the United States is deeply
interested in ascertaining the conditions which are to govern trade
in such parts of the Chinese Empire as are claimed by various foreign
powers to be within their "areas of interest"; and
WHEREAS bills are now pending before both Houses of Congress for the
dispatch of a mission to China to study its economic condition:
Therefore, be it
_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested
to transmit to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with
the public service, such correspondence as may have passed between the
Department of State and various foreign Governments concerning the
maintenance of the "open door" policy in China,

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with
accompanying papers.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 2, 1900_.


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