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.