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 26, 1896.

No. 234.]

Sir: I have the honor to confirm the following telegram, transmitted this morning.¹.

I understand that these preliminary proceedings are intended as investigatory, the case being in “sumario” (the nearest equivalent of which is taking declarations for a grand-jury indictment). But in the case of Sanguily, the United States declined to recognize the validity of the military jurisdiction in preliminary or at any stage of the proceedings.

I am, etc.,

Joseph A. Springer.

1. See telegram of November 26, 1896