Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 411.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Curry.

[Telegram.]

Washington, October 23, 1886—2.15 p.m.

Mr. Bayard informs Mr. Curry that if the case of cargoes from any foreign country arriving at ports of Cuba and Porto Rico in American vessels is inserted in the three propositions made by Spain which his telegram of the 21st instant reports, he has his authority to say to the Spanish Government that the President, after receiving notice of Spain’s enforcement of that agreement in Cuba and Porto Rico, will proclaim a suspension of the discrimination now to be enforced.