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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Day.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 8, 1898.

Your No. 6 received. The President does not understand that our commissioners in Cuba have undertaken such discussion as you mention. But as a measure of precaution he has instructed them not to admit or discuss question of relinquishment of title or sovereignty and to restrict themselves to the military operation of evacuation. You are right in understanding that questions of relinquishment of title and sovereignty are committed to you.

Hay.