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

Señor Polo de Bernabé to Mr. Sherman.

[Translation.]

Legation of Spain in Washington,
April 2, 1898.

No. 33.]

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor, by order of my Government, to transmit to your excellency the full testimony³ in the inquiry instituted by the maritime authority of the Habana station by reason of the catastrophe which befell the U. S. ironclad Maine in that port, in the night of the 15th of February last, which awful misfortune to the American people has been so deeply and sincerely lamented by the Spanish Government and people.

I improve this opportunity, etc.,

Louis Polo de Bernabé.

3. The full report is published in Senate Report No. 885, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session.