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

Memorandum left at the Department of State.

Ambassade de France, August 15, 1898.

May the postal service by Spanish steamers be reestablished between Spain and Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines?

Will Spanish merchants be permitted to send supplies in Spanish bottoms to Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines?

Will Spanish tank steamer Cadagna, chartered by French merchants and now lying in Havre, be permitted to proceed to Philadelphia to take mineral oil for industrial purposes?

The French embassy has been unofficially requested by the Spanish Government to learn the names, rank, number of American commissioners for the evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico, for the peace negotiation at Paris, as it is the desire of the Spanish Government to appoint commissioners of same rank, etc.

In which delay should a claimant appeal from a decision of United States prize court to the United States Supreme Court?