Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Springer to Mr. Rockhill.

United States Consulate-General,
Habana, November 23, 1896.

No. 226.]

Sir: Referring to dispatch No. 223, of the 19th instant, I have to inform the Department that the copy of the oath and appointment of Alfred Laborde as master of the schooner Competitor, transmitted by this office to the General Government, has been forwarded to the commandant-general of marine, the admiral commanding this naval station, which authority has cognizance of the case of the capture of the said vessel.

I am, etc.,

Joseph A. Springer.

P. S.—Mr. Laborde sent me a message, that he had been well treated while recently in the hospital (as reported in No. 211, November 12), and had been returned to the “Cabaña” at his own request.

J. A. S.