Mr. Day to Mr. Hay.
[Telegram.]
Paris, October 27,
1898.
No. 17.]Pursuant to offer approved by you and afterwards made by us to Spanish Commissioners, we contemplate insertion in the treaty, unless otherwise instructed, of the following clause:
The United States assumes and will discharge the obligations resting upon it under international law for the protection of life and property in the island of Cuba during its occupation thereof.
Day.