Ambassador White to the Secretary of State.
Rome, April 11, 1906.
Sir: I have the honor to confirm Mr. Hitt’s telegram of the 21st ultimo, reading:
Native-born infant, 2 years 8 months, naturalized father requires passport to return to United States. Request instructions.
and to acknowledge the receipt by Mr. Hitt on the 22d ultimo of your reply thereto, reading:
Passport may issue to infant upon application by parent or guardian.
The case with respect to which these telegrams were exchanged was the passport application, made by his grandfather, of one Francesco Paolo Gatti, and Mr. Hitt informs me that the only doubt which he felt was in regard to the propriety of granting a passport to an infant of such tender years.
The application, after correction, has been again received to-day, and being in due form I have issued passport No. 1194 to Gatti.
I have, etc.,