Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 611.37.31/43.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Habana, November 13, 1911.

No. 1190.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 11th instant of the Department’s unnumbered instruction of the 2d instant on the subject of the possible modification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, and to transmit herewith copy of the note which I have to-day handed to the Cuban Secretary of State in compliance therewith. Mr. Sanguily said that he would take the matter up with President Gómez without loss of time and that he would communicate with me further in the course of a few days.

I have, etc.,

Hugh S. Gibson