Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Woodford to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, March 8, 1898.

No. 170.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this day of Department dispatch No. 139, dated February 24, 1898, instructing me, at the request of the Secretary of the Navy, to express to the Spanish Government his high appreciation of the services rendered and honors paid by the Cuban authorities to the officers and men of the U. S. S. Maine on the occasion of the public funeral of the members of the crew lost in the disaster.

I have this day addressed an official communication to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, expressing such appreciation.

I have, etc.,

Stewart L. Woodford.