File No. 23380/7.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, July 1, 1910.
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor with the greatest satisfaction to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note No. 265, dated June 29 last, by which you are pleased to advise me that the most excellent President of the United States, in response to the invitation extended to the American Government by the President of the Mexican Republic, has been pleased to appoint as his special ambassador to the celebration of the centennial of Mexico, the Hon. Curtis Guild, jr., ex-governor of the State of Massachusetts, and that Congress having resolved to create a special commission to represent the Government of the United States at the said celebration, the most excellent President Taft had further appointed the following gentlemen in the character of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary: Senator Lee S. Overman, of North Carolina; Senator Simon Guggenheim, of Colorado; Senator Coe I. Crawford, of South Dakota; Representative David J. Foster, of Vermont; Representative William Marcellus Howard, of Georgia; Representative Jacob Sloat Fassett, of New York; Mr. James W. Gerard, justice of the supreme court of New York; Mr. Franklin Murphy, ex-governor of New Jersey; and Col. Charles Alexander Rook, editor and owner of the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
I am now transmitting this gratifying intelligence to my Government which, I have no doubt, will appreciate the delicate attention of the Government of the United States in selecting persons of such distinction, and at the same time I beg to inform your excellency that the foreign delegates are expected to attend the festivals and ceremonies from the 8th to the 22d of September, inclusive, and that the program of the celebration of the centennial covers the whole of the month just mentioned.
I take pleasure, etc.