Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Sherman to Mr. Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, March 12, 1897.

No. 228.]

Sir: I have the honor to apprise you, having reference to your note of the 27th ultimo, of the receipt of a telegram from Mr. Hannis Taylor, minister of the United States at Madrid, of the 10th instant, saying that Señor Don Vicente G. Quesada, Argentine minister there, formally accepts, with the consent of his Government, the post of arbitrator under the protocol signed by the Hon. Richard Olney and yourself on the 2d instant, in the matter of the claims of Charles Oberlander and Barbara M. Messenger against the Government of Mexico.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman.