Mr. Cambon to Mr. Moore.
Washington, September 6, 1898.
The ambassador of France has the honor to inform the Secretary of State of the United States that the Spanish Government has accepted, by way of reciprocity, the proposition for a modus vivendi, as regards navigation, which formed the subject of the communication of the Department of State of the 17th ultimo.
In consequence of this acceptance, and in order to reply to the inquiry made by the Department of State in its note of August 26, the Royal Government has given to the competent authorities in the Canary Islands the necessary orders to the end that the American schooner which the ship brokers in New York propose to send to Las Palmas may be at perfect liberty to enter that port.
Mr. Cambon avails himself of this occasion to renew to the Hon. J. B. Moore the assurances of his highest consideration.