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. Adee to Mr. Williams.

Department of State,
Washington, July 8, 1895.

No. 1101.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 2523, of the 25th ultimo, in which you state that another person was arrested subsequently to Mr. Sanguily, on the same charge of kidnapping, and that he was tried, the indictment quashed, and the person released, you are instructed to call the attention of the authorities to the discrimination shown against Mr. Sanguily in holding him for trial and quashing the indictment against his alleged accomplice.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.