Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871

No. 325.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Fish to General Sickles

Department of State, Washington , October 10, 1870.

Sickles, Minister, Madrid:

The conditions of the proposed arbitration mentioned in your telegram are entirely objectionable, and cannot be admitted. You characterize them properly.

FISH.