Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 3, 1894

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Goschen.

Department of State,
Washington, August 25, 1894.

Sir: In response to the inquiry the British ambassador made of me yesterday, when handing me a memorandum of Lord Kimberley’s views touching the effect of the recent tariff legislation upon the commercial agreements made with the West Indies under section 3 of the McKinley act, I have the honor to say that the sections to which his lordship refers would, upon the new tariff act becoming a law, operate to cancel those agreements.

I have, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.