Report of the Secretary of State.
The President:
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolutions of the Senate of January 6, 1897, requesting the President to send to the Senate, “if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, all the correspondence and reports of the consul-general of the United States at Habana relating to the arrest, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to perpetual imprisonment, in chains, of Julio Sanguily, a citizen of the United States, by the authorities of Spain in Cuba,” has the honor to lay before the President copies of the correspondence called for.
It should be added that in view of all the circumstances of this case, and especially of the long imprisonment already suffered by the accused, representations have been made to the Spanish Government, which it is believed will not be without effect, that the case seems to be one in which executive clemency may be reasonably exercised.
Respectfully submitted.
Washington, January 30, 1897.