637.0023/46: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Cuba ( Howell )
[Paraphrase]
Washington
,
August 23, 1923—3
p.m.
78. Colonel Tarafa has conferred with the Department, but the Department has not invited the representatives of other railway systems to make statements.
The Department understands that there will be conference between Tarafa and sugar interests to discuss the proposal to eliminate from the bill the provisions closing existing private ports but to retain the provisions prohibiting imports through private ports, and to add a provision prohibiting in the future the establishment of private ports.
Hughes