File No. 825.001/7.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chilean Chargé.
Washington, September 10, 1910.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant, in which you announce that you nave received telegraphic information from your Government advising you of the death at 2.15 p.m., on the 6th instant, of His Excellency the Vice President of Chile, Señor Don Elias Fernandez Albano, and that, in conformity [Page 136] with the provision of the constitution of the Republic, the minister of justice and public instruction, His Excellency Señor Emiliano Figueroa, as the senior member of the cabinet, had assumed the executive power.
In receiving information of the death of His Excellency Vice President Albano, the President, on the 7th instant, telegraphed to Señor Figueroa, Vice President of Chile, the expression of the deep sympathy of the Government and people of the United States and his own sincere condolence in the great loss sustained by the Republic of Chile. In the same telegram the President also expressed to his Excellency Señor Figueroa his personal sympathy and high regard. On the same day the department directed the American legation at Santiago to supplement the President’s telegram by communicating to the foreign office the condolences of this Government and especially those of the Secretary of State.
I now desire to convey to you, Mr. Chargé d’Affaires, the expression of my sincere regret at the death of Señor Albano and my sympathy in view of the loss sustained by your Government and people.
Accept, etc.,