Mr. Cambon to Mr. Day.
Washington, August 20, 1898.
Mr. Secretary of State: In a communication under date of the 19th of this month you made known to me the objections which would be entertained by the Federal Government to the sending to Washington of a Spanish consul under the conditions indicated in my note of the 17th of August. You add that the settlement of the principal questions to which the suspension of hostilities gives rise having been intrusted to special commissions designated to meet, respectively, in Cuba, Porto Rico, and at Paris, it seems to you desirable that diplomatic communications relative to other questions should continue for the present to be exchanged between the Cabinets of Washington and Madrid by the same intermediary through which they have passed since the commencement of the war.
I have the honor to inform you that I have communicated this information to the Spanish Government, and I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you, Mr. Secretary of State, the assurances of my very high consideration.