Mr. Sherman to Señor
Polo de Bernabé.
Department of State,
Washington, April 20,
1898.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of this day’s date, in which you state that the
resolution adopted by the Congress of the United States of America, and
to-day approved by the President, is of such a nature as to make your
continuance in Washington impossible and constrains you to request that
your passports be given you. You add that the protection of Spanish
interests is intrusted to the ambassador of France and the minister of
Austria-Hungary.
In response to your request I have the honor to hand you a passport for
yourself, your family, and your suite. I beg also to inform you that
arrangements have been made for a guard to attend you during your
presence in the territory of the United States.
Sincerely regretting the step that you have felt constrained to take, I
avail myself, etc.,
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Copy of passport handed to Minister Polo de
Bernabé.
NO. —.]
united states of america.
To all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting:
Know ye that the bearer hereof, Señor Don Luis Polo de Bernabé envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain to the United
States, is about to travel abroad, accompanied by his family and
suite.
These are therefore to request all officers of the United States, or
of any State thereof, whom it may concern, to permit them to pass
freely, without let or molestation, and to extend to them friendly
aid and protection in case of need.
In testimony whereof I, John Sherman,
Secretary of State of the United States of America, have
hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of
State to be affixed, at Washington, this 20th
day of April, A. D. 1898, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred and
twenty-second.
[
seal.]
John Sherman.
