Baron Fava to Mr. Hay.
Washington, March 15, 1900.
Mr. Secretary of State: Your excellency was pleased to inform me in your kind note of to-day that the honorable governor of Louisiana has not yet replied to the letter of January 24 last, in which the Department of State sent him a copy of this embassy’s note of the 15th of that month.
While thanking you, Mr. Secretary of State, for this communication, I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly inform me what measures the Federal Government intends to take, in view of this protracted silence on the part of that governor, for the purpose of having search made, on the basis of the facts collected by the Royal consulate at New Orleans, and of prosecuting the Tallulah lynchers in accordance with the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana, article 1018, the text of which I had the honor to submit to you on the 15th January last.
Accept, etc.,