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

Mr. Taylor to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, April 23, 1897. (Received Mar. 7.)

No. 686.]

Sir: Referring to Department’s telegrams of January 22 and March 1 and to my Nos. 636, of January-29, and 655, of March 3, of the present year, relative to certain American citizens arrested in Cuba, I have the honor to inform you that I have received a note from the minister for foreign affairs, informing me officially that the American citizen Jose Gonzales Curbelo, one of the prisoners named in the first-mentioned telegram, was placed at liberty on the 30th of last March.

I am, etc.,

Hannis Taylor.