[561] On the day when the State Department sent me several of its most hostile dispatches to Cuba, one of the Comptrollers of the Treasury decided adversely to me a matter that concerned my London accounts; and the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Folger, refused to overrule him, though I was informed privately by one of his important subordinates that Folger held my contention to be right, in law. It is to this that General Grant's postscript refers. I may be permitted to add that the United States courts have three times decided this point in my favor.
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[561] On the day when the State Department sent me several of its most hostile dispatches to Cuba, one of the Comptrollers of the Treasury decided adversely to me a matter that concerned my London accounts; and the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Folger, refused to overrule him, though I was informed privately by one of his important subordinates that Folger held my contention to be right, in law. It is to this that General Grant's postscript refers. I may be permitted to add that the United States courts have three times decided this point in my favor.
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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