Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Snowden.

No. 139.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 8, 1893.

Sir: I have received your No. 90 of the 16th ultimo, replying to Department’s No. 95 of the 2d ultimo, concerning the Mora claim against Spain and the arrangement of a claims convention.

Your promised explanation to the minister of state will doubtless remove the misapprehension into which you have fallen of regarding the Mora claim as one to be reopened instead of being comprehended in the proposed agreement as an offset already liquidated and only awaiting payment of the stipulated sum in the contingency proposed by Spain herself.

I am, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.