Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part II

Baron Fava to Mr. Gresham.

[Translation.]

Embassy of His Majesty, the King of Italy,
Washington, March 16, 1895.

Mr. Secretary of State:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letters dated respectively the 14th, 15th, and 16th instants, by which your excellency was pleased to transmit to me the telegraphic correspondence exchanged between the honorable Department and his excellency the governor of Colorado, in relation to the killing of the Italians at Walsenburg.

While extending to your excellency my thanks for these courteous communications, and requesting that the aforesaid governor be also thanked, I seize the opportunity of again expressing my firm belief that the Federal Government, as well as the authorities of the State of Colorado, will agree with me upon the necessity there is in bringing before the courts all those who may be found to be guilty of the murder of the Italian subjects.

Accept, etc.,

Fava.