File No. 611.3731/40.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

No. 1150.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 1134 of the 18th instant, I have the honor to transmit a copy and translation of a note received this morning from the Cuban Secretary of State.

I have, etc.,

John B. Jackson.
[Inclosure—Translation.]

The Cuban Secretary of State to the American Minister.

Mr. Minister: In continuation of the conversation that I had the honor to have with your excellency a few days ago, I beg that you will inquire of your Government if it considers it convenient and immediately feasible to agree with that of Cuba upon the extension for another five years of the treaty of commercial reciprocity that is still in force, though automatically; and if it would be willing to enter into negotiations with a view to the modfication of the treaty in the sense of providing for greater advantages for some American products and for our sugars and tobacco.

I avail, etc.,

Manuel Sanguily.