File No. 2976/6.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Ambassador.
Washington, January 10, 1907.
Excellency: Referring to your notes of the 6th and 18th and the department’s reply of the 21st ultimo, in regard to certain acts of lawlessness in the State of Kentucky, by which property belonging to the Italian Government or its agents was destroyed, I have the honor to state that the department has received a letter from the governor of Kentucky, under date of the 5th instant, advising it that the courts and officers of that State were doing all in their power to prevent any recurrence of such acts and to punish those who may have been guilty of such violations of the law.
The governor asks this department to assure you that the Kentucky authorities will do everything possible to protect the treaty rights of your Government along the line indicated in the department’s note to you of December 21 last.a
Accept, etc.,
- Printed in Foreign Relations, 1906, p. 952.↩