Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Clayton to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, March 25, 1898.

No. 341.]

Sir: Replying to your No. 349, of the 19th instant, I have to-day expressed in writing to the committee of the memorial services lately held in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in this city, growing out of the disaster to the Maine, the Government’s appreciation of the manifestations of sympathy and patriotism on the part of our countrymen assembled upon said occasion, as expressed in their resolutions lately forwarded through me to the Department.

I have, etc.,

Powell Clayton.