No. 644.
Mr. Fish to General Sickles.
[Telegram.]
Washington, November 23,
1873.
Have telegraphed to Borne for authority to Italian minister to take custody of library and property.
Spanish government, through minister here, proposed arbitration, which has been declined on the ground that the question is not one for arbitration, the subject being one of national honor., of which the nation must be the judge and custodian.
FISH.