Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Snowden.

Department of State,
Washington, March 18, 1893.

No. 144.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your 106 of the 3d instant, inclosing a copy of the memorandum you submitted to the prime minister of Spain in relation to the guarantees given by his Government as to the rights, and privileges of the American missionaries in the Caroline Islands; also a copy of your note to the minister of foreign affairs giving the amount of the money expended in establishing and maintaining the mission in Ponape.

The Department regards your memorandum as a terse and reasonable statement of the guarantees given in 1885 and 1886.

I am, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.