Mr. McCormick to Mr. Hay.
Vienna, May 30, 1902.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your cable dispatch announcing my nomination and confirmation by the Senate as American ambassador at this court.
I appreciate most highly the confidence evinced in and the honor conferred upon me by this act, to merit which will be my constant endeavor.
I will add for the information of the Department that I have been able to elicit no information from the Austro-Hungarian foreign office with regard to a similar step on the part of this Government, beyond the extract from the speech of the foreign minister, Count Goluehow-ski, before the Delegations, under cover of my unnumbered dispatch of May 9, announcing that in the budget for the year 1903 provision was made for the elevation of their mission in Washington to ambassadorial rank. There would appear to be some reason for withholding this information until the change shall have become an accomplished fact.
I have, etc.,