Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

Department of State,
Washington, April 10, 1900.

No. 758.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatch No. 649, of the 29th ultimo, giving* an account of the laying of the corner stone of the Rochambeau monument, has been received.

The event to which you refer is a most gratifying one and illustrates the vitality of the friendship of the two peoples which has endured among the changes of over a century.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.