Mr. Dupuy de Lôme to Mr. Sherman.
Washington, October 26, 1897.
Mr. Secretary: I have received your excellency’s courteous notes of the 20th, 22d, and 25th of the present month, the first two relating to the case of the Donna T. Briggs and the third to that of the Sommers N. Smith.
In reply thereto, I tender to your excellency my thanks for the interest with which you attended to my statements in regard to the same, and I have the honor to inform you at the same time that I have issued instructions to the lawyers and consular agents in the service of Spain to facilitate the authorities of the United States at the places where the proceedings are held (by giving) every kind of data that may be requested by those authorities and such information as they may have, to the end of promoting the prosecutions for violation of the neutrality laws, and other laws of the United States likewise violated with the object of favoring filibustering expeditions.
I take this opportunity, etc.,