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.

December 7, 1895.

No. 1203.]

Sir: I inclose for your information a copy of a resolution of the United States Senate calling for all the correspondence relating to the arrest, trial, conviction, and sentence of Julio Sanguily, and directing that a copy of the record of the trial be obtained.

You are instructed to obtain and forward to this Department as soon as practicable a certified copy of the record.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Assistant Secretary.

[Senate resolution, December 5, 1895.]

imprisonment of general sanguily.

Mr. Call submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed to send to the Senate all correspondence relating to the trial, conviction, and sentence to hard labor for life of General Sanguily, an American citizen, for alleged complicity in the war against Spain by the Cubans, and if no authentic record should be on tile in the State Department, that the Secretary of State be directed to obtain a copy of the record of such trial.