Mr. Foster to Mr. Snowden.
Washington, February 2, 1893.
Sir: Your dispatch numbered 65 of the 16th ultimo has been received, relating an interview with the minister of foreign affairs respecting the adjustment of claims between the two Governments.
In your presentation of the subject you referred, in your interview with the minister, to a “convention for the adjustment of the Mora and [Page 417] such other claims as Spanish subjects may have against our Government.” I desire to direct your attention to the fact that the Mora claim has been regarded by this Government as already a liquidated and adjusted claim, only awaiting an appropriation by the Spanish Cortes for its final payment. It should not, therefore, be placed in the category of unadjusted claims.
If you have misled the minister of state on this point, you will be careful, at a convenient opportunity, to make the necessary correction.
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