Mr. Fish to General Sickles
Sir: On the 9th instant a telegram in cipher was sent to Mr. Moran, chargé d’affaires at London, which reads as follows:
Moran, Chargé, London:
Telegraph and send by mail to Sickles as follows: “Separate commissions unnecessary, expensive, and dilatory, but not an insuperable objection. Requiring that claim should have been considered and rejected prior to submission, must be qualified if agreed to at all. You may agree, if necessary, that no claim be submitted until sixty or ninety days after it shall have been presented either to the authorities in Cuba, or to those in Madrid.”
I am, &c.,