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, September 28, 1895.

No. 1160.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 2586, of the 11th instant, relative to the imprisonment of Sanguily and Aguirre, and referring to the letter from the Governor-General declining the right of exercise of diplomatic functions by consular officers.

I inclose copies of letters from the Department to the minister at Madrid and to the Spanish minister bearing upon this case.^*

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl.

1. Printed together with subsequent correspondence on the same subject under the title of “Right of consul-general to prevent remonstrances” in Foreign Relations. 1895, Part II, pp. 1209–1214.