Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Mr. Eustis.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 27, 1895.

Have yours of yesterday. Do you mean that you will be allowed to inspect official record and thus be enabled and be at liberty to ascertain and report to your Government whether Waller court was legally constituted and the Waller trial, conviction, and sentence regular and valid according to French law? If so, denial of record would not seem to be absolute, but to have an exception in favor of yourself as ambassador. Please ascertain and report definitely on this point at earliest practicable moment

Olney

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