Mr. Taylor to Mr.
Gresham.
[Extract.]
No. 72.]
Legation of the
United States,
Madrid, November 24, 1893.
(Received December 22.)
Sir: In reply to your No. 51, of the 4th instant, I
have the honor to assure you that I am doing all in my power to secure the
interview as to the Mora claim suggested by the minister of state in his
note to me of the 21st of August. Before this you have received my No. 62,
of the 6th instant, in which I informed you of his proposal to have a long
and friendly interview as to all matters now pending between Spain and the
United States, at a day not later than two weeks after the 4th instant. As I
failed to receive the expected communication within that time, I addressed a
note to the minister of state on the 21st instant, a copy of which I inclose
herein. To-day I received from him a reply, a copy of which I also inclose
herein. From these notes you can best perceive the real situation.
I shall continue to press him at regular intervals for the promised
interview. If upon receipt of this letter you deem some other course more
expedient, please advise me.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 72.]
Mr. Taylor to Señor
Moret.
Legation of the United States,
Madrid, November 21,
1893.
Excellency: On the 4th instant, after the
presentation of Lieut. Peshine, you were kind enough to suggest that at
an early day we should confer together, with the view of an amicable
consideration of all matters now pending between Spain and the United
States. You also suggested that if I did not hear from you at the end of
two weeks that I should call upon you to set a day for the interview.
Since then I have received an urgent note from my Government, in which I
am called upon to explain why the interview in regard to the Mora claim,
which you suggested in your note to me of the 21st of August, has never
taken place. You will remember that in my note of September 12, written
immediately after my return to Madrid, I
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expressed to you my readiness to call on you for
that purpose at any time that you might please to designate. I will,
therefore, now ask that you set a day during this week, if possible,
when I may call upon you for the purpose expressed by you in our
interview of the 4th instant. I will prepare beforehand, as you then
suggested, a list of all matters now pending between the two countries,
in the hope that we may arrive at a definite conclusion as to them all,
especially the Mora claim, concerning which my Government addressed you
so earnestly in its formal note of the 14th of July, which remains
unanswered.
I avail myself, etc.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
72.—Translation.]
Señor Moret to Mr.
Taylor.
My Distinguished Sir and Friend: Pardon me if I
am not as yet able to fix a day for our interview upon the several
pending affairs.
I will do so as soon as I can have the time; and I hope you will excuse
me if, on account of the urgency and gravity of the affairs which at
present claim the whole attention of the Government, I delay the
discussion of those to be settled with your legation, which certainly
are not of small importance, but which are, however, able to suffer that
delay, for which I beg to apologize.
I am, etc.,
