Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Taylor.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 21, 1893.

Mr. Gresham acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Taylor’s dispatch No. 72, and instructs him to express to the minister for foreign affairs, in a courteous but distinct manner, the opinion of the Government of the United States, that it is entitled, without further delay, to an answer in regard to the Mora claim, and to be strictly governed in so doing by the Department’s instruction No. 16, in which it was stated that the claim stood on an unconditional promise of payment.