Mr. Draper to Mr. Hay.
Rome, Italy, December 7, 1899.
Sir: I have the honor to report that yesterday morning I received a note from the Marquis Visconti Venosta, minister for foreign affairs, thanking me for the information which I had communicated to him a day or two previously, in effect that the President was greatly interested to see that justice should be done in the Tallulah lynching case, and would probably recommend to Congress such legislation as would tend to prevent the repetition of such similar outrages in the future. In the afternoon I saw the minister for foreign affairs personally and showed him a printed abstract of the President’s message on this point. He had already received by telegraph from Baron Fava a fuller summary of this part of the message than was printed in the Italian papers, and he expressed once more his gratification at the President’s attitude, and hoped sincerely that his recommendation would be embodied in law.
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