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. Taylor to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, March 21, 1894.

Mr. Taylor reports that he has communicated to the minister of state in a note, copy of which has been mailed, the contents of Mr. Gresham’s telegram, to emphasize what he had already said to him alter the receipt of his (the minister of state’s) answer to instruction No. 16 when he read to him instruction No. 95, as restating the Department’s position denying the contention that the promise to pay the Mora claim was subject to implied condition of appropriation by the Cortes.