711.5221/15

The Spanish Ambassador (Riaño) to the Acting Secretary of State

[Translation]
No. 5–02

Mr. Secretary: By order of His Majesty’s Government, I have the honor to apply to Your Excellency and to say that the Ambassador of the United States at Madrid sent under date of the 11th instant a note in which he puts on the extension of the Treaty of Friendship and General Relations the condition that all discriminations in regard to customs and coal shipments from Europe and America will be discontinued in Spain and that the claims preferred by the Embassy against the Income Tax Law will cease, and that the matter is to be taken under advisement and given urgent attention, but as the Treaty expires on the 8th of May next, it directs me to apply to Your Excellency in order to have the Government of the United States kindly grant an extension of time of two months in which the proposition can be duly examined by the Spanish official departments concerned, it being understood that Articles 23 and 24 will immediately be excluded.

I avail myself [etc.]

Juan Riaño