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. Cambon.

Department of State,
Washington, May 3, 1900.

No. 300.]

Excellency: The President of the United States directs me to express to you his profound sense of the friendly sympathy which has dictated the message sent by the President of the French Republic on the occasion of the terrible calamity which has taken place at Salt Lake City. He has directed me to thank His Excellency President Loubet, through our embassy in Paris, for this touching expression of kindly feeling, and his assurance of the gratitude with which the people of the United States will receive the sympathy of the Government of the Republic of France.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.