837.61351/315: Telegram
The Representative on Special Mission in Cuba (Crowder) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:33 p.m.]
152. Decree issued yesterday under the terms of which Sugar Finance Commission ceases to function on January 1 except to liquidate its business outstanding on that date. Commission retains jurisdiction [Page 808] indefinitely over: (1) sugar in warehouses in the United States; (2) afloat; and (3) in Cuban ports awaiting tonnage already contracted for, in all about 1,100,000 bags, also to issue permits for export of sugar between present date and January 1, after which owners of sugar will be free to export. This latter power retained in the interest of the disposition of the three classes of sugar mentioned above.