Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

Department of State,
Washington, February 2, 1900.

No. 722.]

Sir: Mr. Robert J. Thompson, of Chicago, who is secretary of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, has been appointed by the President a special commissioner to present to the President of the French Republic the first Lafayette coin of a series of $50,000 authorized by Congress in aid of the Lafayette memorial statue.

The President will be pleased if you will make an appointment with His Excellency President Loubet to present Mr. Thompson and to allow him the privilege of presenting this coin in a silver casket especially designed for the purpose.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.