Office of the Historian

Mr. Newberry to Mr. Blaine.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, November 7, 1891. (Received November 23.)
No. 157.]

Sir: I beg to inform you that under the instructions contained in your No. 135 of October 6 I have sent to the Spanish minister of state a note, together with copies of the inclosures sent with your No. 135. I may say that I have held this note back a short while, believing that I would obtain a favorable reply to my request asking the Spanish Government to remove the prohibition against American pork. I did not feel justfied in doing so any longer.

I have, etc.,

H. R. Newberry.
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.