File No. 611.3731/18.
The American Minister to the Secretary of State.
[Telegrams—Paraphrase.]
Habana, March 5,
1911.
Has the Department considered that although the new Cuban sugar tariff rates make the preferential infinitesimal, Cuban refinement is practically enough to supply the domestic market? Before acting on the instructions of the telegram of March 4 the minister will await answer to the above question.