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. Wilde.

Department of State,
Washington, June 20, 1900.

No. 3.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, advising me of the expected early arrival at New York of the. Argentine school-ship Presidente Sarmiento, and expressing your desire to present the officers to the President and the Secretaries of State and the Navy.

In reply I have the honor to state that I made known their visit to the President, who expressed his gratification at the prospect of receiving them.

My colleague, the Secretary of the Navy, and I will be glad to have the pleasure of meeting them.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay.