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. Taylor.

Department of State,
Washington , June 25, 1897 .

No. 714.]

Sir: I inclose copy of a letter from the Hon. Lemuel E. Quigg, transmitting one from Messrs. Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson, attorneys for Sartorius & Co., of New York, who are the owners of some 719 bales of tobacco purchased or contracted for in the Island of Cuba prior to the issue of the Governor-General’s prohibitory order of May 16, 1896.

Permission to ship this tobacco has been refused, and you are instructed to exert all proper pressure on the Spanish Government to have the desired permission accorded.

Respectfully, yours,

John Sherman.