No. 428.
Mr. Muruaga to Mr. Bayard.
October 23, 1886. (Received October 23.)
The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain, has the honor to inform the honorable Secretary of State that, being authorized by his Government to clear up and settle the doubts and difficulties which may arise in the course of the pending negotiations for the rightful application of the absolute equality of the flag of the one and the other nation, he begs him to be pleased to state to him if orders have been issued for the temporary and conditional suspension of the effects to which the President’s proclamation of the 13th instant refers.
In the judgment of the undersigned, the interests of commerce and at the same time the prudent and mature examination of the causes which have produced the disagreement and the remedy which is to be sought for the future demand the prolongation of the peremptory term fixed in the said proclamation.
He hopes, therefore, with good reason, that the Secretary of State will notify him in seasonable time of such prolongation, and repeats, on this occasion, the assurances of his highest consideration.