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, March 11, 1897. (Received Mar. 29).

No. 663.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that the claim for indemnity contained in Department’s No. 654, of the 12th ultimo, concerning the prohibition of the shipment of tobacco from the Island of Cuba, under the order of May 16, 1896,^† has been duly presented to the Spanish Government.

I am, etc.,

Hannis Taylor.

1. Printed in Foreign Relations, 1896, page 895.