Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Cardinal Rampolla.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 20, 1903.

The President desires me to express his profound sense of loss which the Christian world has sustained in the death of His Holiness Leo XIII. By his lofty character, his great learning, and his comprehensive charity, he adorned his exalted station and made his reign one of the most illustrious as it has been one of the longest in the history of the Catholic Church.

John Hay.