Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Carbo to Mr. Day.

[Translation.]

Legation of Ecuador,
New York, June 24, 1898.

Mr. Secretary: Having brought to the knowledge of my Government the contents of the various communications which your Department has addressed to me relative to the state of war which exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, I have received instructions to state to you that the Government of Ecuador, while deploring the armed contest between two powers with which it maintains relations of good friendship and commerce, declares its absolute neutrality in accordance with the law of nations.

I avail, etc.,

L. F. Carbo.