Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 11513/6–7.

The Secretary of State to Minister Bryan .

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington , February 4, 1908 .

The Senate passed yesterday the following resolutions:

Resolved, That the death by unlawful and inhuman violence of the King and Crown Prince of Portugal is sincerely deplored by the Senate of the United States of America.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be delivered to the President of the United States with the request that he communicate the same to the Government of Portugal.

You will communicate this to the minister for foreign affairs, expressing the sympathy and good will with which the President thus complies with the request of the Senate.

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