Mr. Sherman to Mr. Dupuy de Lôme.
Washington, December 16, 1897.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt late yesterday-afternoon of your note of the 15th instant in which, responding to this Department’s communication on the 14th instant of the request of the Treasury Department to be supplied with any information you might possess tending to implicate the schooner Silver Heels now at Wilmington in acts violative of the laws of the United States, you convey to me certain information which has reached you tending to show that the vessel in question has been recently involved with the Dauntless in the carriage of men and munitions to Cuba in aid of the insurgents.
Your note has been communicated in translated copy to the Secretaries of War and of the Navy and to the Attorney-General for such consideration and action by their respective Departments as may be appropriate.
Accept, etc.,