Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Uhl to Mr. Williams.

Department of State,
Washington , March 11, 1895 .

No. 1049.]

Sir: I am in receipt of your dispatches, Nos. 2429 to 2434, inclusive, relative to the recent political disturbances in the Island of Cuba and the arrest of Messrs. Julio Sanguily and José Maria Aguirre, American citizens, for alleged complicity therein. Your application to the Governor-General for the transfer of these cases from military to civil jurisdiction under the provisions of the protocol of January 12, 1877, was correct and proper, and is approved. Your understanding of the limits of your duty in respect to these arrests, as explained in your No. 2429, is correct.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl.