Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Sickles to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Madrid , June 30, 1901.

(Mr. Sickles reports that the consul-general at Barcelona considers it important to know immediately if the Department means by “Cubans and Porto Ricans” resident inhabitants only, or if it means also persons born in those islands, but resident since for some years in Spain.)