File No. 834.001 Sch 1/1.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Secretary of State.

No. 450.]

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to enclose, with the customary copy, the autograph letter from His Excellency the President of the Republic, Don Eduardo Schaerer, to His Excellency the President of the United States of North America, informing him of his inauguration.

I beg you to be good enough to have the letter reach its high destination, and

I am [etc.]

J. Montero.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]

The President of Paraguay to the President.

To His Excellency the President of the Republic of the United States of North America, General William Howard Taft.

Great and Good Friend: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that, called by the free vote of my fellow citizens, I have this day assumed the Chief Magistracy of the Republic, before the Honorable Congress of the Nation, thus inaugurating the constitutional term of my Government.

In so informing Your Excellency I take pleasure in adding that one of the principal solicitudes of my Government will be to maintain and, if possible, draw closer, the cordial relations that happily unite the Republic of Paraguay to the Nation whose affairs are directed by Your Excellency.

I am glad to take this occasion to express to you my sincere desire for the prosperity of the North American Nation and for the personal happiness of Your Excellency, and at the same time I assure you of my highest consideration and particular esteem.

Eduardo Schaerer.

Jose P. Montero.