Mr. McCormick to Mr. Hay.
Vienna , January 18, 1902 .
Sir: I have the honor to acquaint you that the remains of the Mexican minister to this court, Don Jose de Teresa y Miranda, have been intrusted to the North-German Lloyd Steamship Company for transmission to Mexico, via Bremen and Galveston, on board the steamship Breslau.
They will leave the first-named port on the 23d instant, and are due to arrive in Galveston eighteen days thereafter.
I have deemed it proper to assure the chargé d’affaires, Mr. Lizardi, that the Department of State would request, and that the Treasury Department would issue to the collector of the port at Galveston, such instructions as will insure the entrance of the remains at the port of Galveston without let or hindrance, and their transmission without delay by such route as may be decided upon to the Mexican frontier.
I have also the honor to inform you that Madame de Teresa, widow of the late minister and sister-in-law of President Porfirio Diaz, sails with her family from Cherbourg on the steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm, and is due to arrive in New York on or about the 21st of February.
Believing that I would be carrying out the wishes of the Department, I have assured Mr. Lizardi that such instructions would be issued through the proper channels to the customs authorities in New York as would insure Madame de Teresa’s receiving every possible courtesy at their hands on her arrival.
I have, etc.,