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. Dupuy de Lôme.

Department of State,
Washington, June 16, 1897.

No. 260.]

Sir: Referring to your note of the 11th instant, I have the honor to say that I am advised by the Treasury Department that the collector of customs at St. Augustine, Fla., reports, on the authority of the inspector at New Smyrna, that the yawl Volusia is tied up at the dock and that there is no evidence of any expedition being fitted out there.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman

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