Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Wharton to Mr. Terres.

Department of State,
Washington, July 14, 1891.

No. 128.]

Sir: I have received Mr. Douglass’s No. 179, of the 27th ultimo, inclosing a copy of the annual message of the President of Haiti for 1891.

The Department hopes that the vexatious question of detaining merchant sailing vessels, pending the adjustment of customs duties on their cargoes, will be speedily and satisfactorily settled, as the message of President Hyppolite gives reason to hope will be the case,

I am, etc.,

William F. Wharton,
Acting Secretary.