Mr. Gana to Mr. Gresham.

[Translation.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 13th instant, in which your excellency is pleased to inform me that his Government does not consider itself authorized to assent to the proposition of adjustment which in the name of my Government was submitted to your excellency on the 28th ultimo, as a means of terminating satisfactorily the claims which were left unsettled by the commission which held its sessions in this capital from the 9th of April last.

I have hastened to transmit your excellency’s communication to my Government, which will doubtless regret that it can not count upon the acceptance by the Government of your excellency of an arbitrament which, in its opinion would, under the present circumstances, be the most adequate for the settlement of existing claims.

I avail, etc.,

Domingo Gana.