To the Senate:
I transmit herewith, for the information of the Senate in connection with the Senate's resolution of February 26, 1908, a report by the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, showing the settlement of the controversies which existed with the Government of Venezuela with respect to the claims against that Government of the Orinoco Steamship Company; of the Orinoco Corporation and of its predecessors in interest, The Manoa Company (Limited), The Orinoco Company, and The Orinoco Company (Limited); of the United States and Venezuela Company, also known as the Crichfield claim; of A. F. Jaurett; and of the New York and Bermudez Company.
WILLIAM H. TAFT
Note: This Message was accompanied by a letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting to the President a protocol of agreement between the United States and Venezuela, providing that the views on these claims entertained by the two countries being so diametrically opposed, they are bound by their treaties to submit the questions involved to the Hague Tribunal, the cases to be filed before October 13, 1909, counter cases to follow within four months thereafter, and, if necessary, argument before the arbitral tribunal may take place through representatives within sixty days after the date before which the counter cases must be filed.
William Howard Taft, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207503