Mr. Hay to Mr.
Cambon.
Department of State,
Washington, May 18,
1900.
No. 309.]
Excellency: Referring to your excellency’s note
of the 3d instant, I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of a letter
from the governor of Utah expressing thanks for and appreciation of the
generous sympathy of the President and Government of France on account
of the mine calamity in that State.
Accept, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Wells to
Mr. Hay.
State of Utah, Executive Office,
Salt Lake City, May
9, 1900.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of the 4th instant, inclosing a
translation of the very kind expression of the ambassador of France
at Washington extending the sympathy of the President and Government
of the French Republic to the President of the United States on
account of the coalmine disaster at Scofield, Utah, and also
inclosing copy of the reply made by direction of the President, and
of a telegram dispatched by you to the ambassador of the United
States at Paris.
Permit me, in behalf of the people of this State, to express to you
the thanks of this Commonwealth for your prompt and gracious
acknowledgment of the generous sympathy of the French Republic, and
to assure you of the appreciation of the families of the victims of
the lamentable disaster.
I have, etc.,
Herbert M. Wells,
Governor of Utah.
