Mr. Hay to Señor Azpíroz.
Washington, October 5, 1900.
Excellency: I had the honor to receive, from your own hands, on the 2d instant, your note of that date, by which you advised me of the generous action of the Congress of the United Mexican States in voting the sum of $30,000 toward the relief of the suffering caused at Galveston by the recent calamitous tornado.
In thus giving expression, as the Congress of your country has done, to the sentiments of earnest sympathy which the people of Mexico have manifested for their deeply afflicted and sorrowing neighbors, the existing tie of friendship between the two communities has been given a shape and strength to which the gratitude of my countrymen lends even greater force. The President, on being informed of this noble act, charges me, in the name of this Government and of the thousands left bereaved and destitute by the awful visitation, to thank the Congress and the people of Mexico for the large-hearted charity that has prompted their contribution, the memory of which, he is pleased to hope, will long endure in the hearts of all true Americans.
The proceeds of the bill of exchange for $14,851.48, in United States gold, which you send me as the equivalent of the $30,000 voted by the Mexican Congress, and the receipt of which I hereby acknowledge, will be sent to the governor of the State of Texas, who has charge of the funds contributed for the relief of the Galveston sufferers, and I promise myself the pleasure of communicating to you his acknowledgment thereof in due course.
Be pleased, etc.,