The Uruguayan Minister to the Acting Secretary of State.
Washington, D. C., July 1, 1905.
Honorable Secretary of State:
Since my arrival at Washington I have been indebted to the Hon. John Hay, in the capacity with which I am vested, for attentions that I supremely appreciate and which I have ever endeavored to acknowledge by professions of my high and respectful affection.
On this day of his demise, unexpected and sorrowful, it behooves me to present to your excellency, in the name of my government and in my own, the most profound condolences for this great loss, and I beg that you may be so good as to transmit them to His Excellency the President, of whom the illustrious deceased was a prominent associate in the arduous duties of State, as well as a glorious citizen of the United States, for the leading part he took in international questions of the greatest importance for mankind and universal civilization.
Your excellency will, therefore, consider me a true and grieved participant in the mourning of the great American nation for the austere citizen who has been taken away from it and of whose talents and virtues I was a close admirer.
I salute, etc.,