No. 556.
Mr. Foster to Mr.
Bayard.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States,
Madrid, August 7, 1885.
(Received August 21.)
No. 382.]Sir: Referring to your No. 372 of the 20th ultimo,
relating to the decision of Baron Blanc in the case of the Masonic, I have
to report that transmitted your letter to the baron with a note on the 5th
instant, and to-day received his reply inclosing a letter addressed to you,
which with copies of my note and his reply, I inclose herewith.
Noting your instruction as to the transmission to the Department of the
original decision of award, I will embrace the first secure means of sending
it to the legation at Paris or London to be thence forwarded in the
pouch.
* * * * * * *
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 382.]
Mr. Foster to Baron
Blanc.
Legation of the United States,
Madrid, August 5,
1885.
Excellency: Confirming my note of the 29th of
June last, I now have great pleasure in inclosing to your excellency a
letter addressed to you by the Secretary of State of the United States,
expressing the President’s high appreciation of the service you have
rendered in the arbitral decision in the case of the Masonic.
I improve, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
382.—Translation.]
Baron Blanc to Mr.
Foster.
Legation of Italy,
Madrid, August 7,
1885.
Excellency: I take the greatest pleasure in
expressing to your excellency my most heartfelt thanks for your note of
the 5th instant, with which you have been good enough to transmit to me
the letter of the Secretary of State of the United States, containing
the expression of his Excellency the President of the United States of
his kind appreciasion of my performance of the duty conferred on me by
the two Governments of deciding as arbitrator the case of the
Masonic.
I take advantage of the courtesy of your excellency, because I greatly
desire to transmit to his excellency the Secretary of State of the
United States the inclosed reply to the flattering communication with
which he has been good enough to honor me.
Accept. &c.,
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[Inclosure 3 in No.
382.—Translation.]
Baron Blanc to Mr.
Bayard.
Legation of Italy,
Madrid, August 7,
1885.
Excellency: I hasten to convey to your
excellency the expression of ray profound gratitude for the benevolent
appreciation couched in such flattering terms transmitted to me in your
esteemed note of the 20th of July last, which his Excellency the
President of the United States was pleased to express on the
accomplishment of my mandate of arbitrator in the case of the
Masonic.
I should be grateful to your excellency for being the medium of
expressing to his Excellency the President the sentiments of respectful
gratitude evinced by me for such a high testimonial and for the honor
that devolved on me on this as well as on another occasion which your
excellency was kind enough to recall, to smooth difficulties arising
between the Governments of the United States and Spain.
I improve, &c.,
