Mr. Powell to Mr.
Hay.
Legation of the United States,
Santo Domingo City, October
1903.
No. 614, Santo Domingo Series.]
Sir: I have the honor to state to the
Department that according to instructions received I delivered to
President A. Woss y Gil, the letter of the President, Mr. Roosevelt.
I was very cordially received by the President. A guard of honor and the
palace band was placed at the entrance to receive me. Our interview
lasted about twenty minutes.
I have the honor to inclose the remarks made on the occasion by the
President and myself.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure 3.]
Remarks to President.
Your Excellency: I have a most pleasant
duty to perform, in being the bearer of a communication from Mr.
Roosevelt, the President of the United States of America, to Your
Excellency, extending to you his congratulations on your being
called to preside as the Chief Magistrate of this Republic.
I have the honor to state to Your Excellency that it is the great
desire of Mr. Roosevelt, the President, that the closest friendship
shall exist between the two sister Republics, each being allied to
the other by strong commercial ties. I can also say to Your
Excellency that it is the desire of the President, Mr. Roosevelt,
that this country shall ever preserve its autonomy and its
independence, and that during the time that Your Excellency shall
exercise the functions of this office you will be able to bring to
this Republic the prosperity that it once attained. In order to do
this there must be a united people, whose only aim should be the
future prosperity of the Republic. This, Mr. President, with a just
regard to the fulfillment of all obligations entered into, will
bring to your Republic a future of hope, of prosperty, of peace, and
of happiness.
This, Your Excellency, I hope to see during the time you fill this
high and important office.
Allow me, sir, to extend my congratulations upon this happy
event.
[Inclosure
4.—Translation.]
Mr. Galvan to
Mr. Powell.
Dominican Republic,
Department of Foreign
Relations,
Santo
Domingo, October 22,
1903.
Honorable Sir: I have the special order
from the President Woss y Gil to send your excellency the written
testimonial of the well-felt satisfaction with which he has received
the congratulations of His Excellency the President of the United
States of North America, expressed in his autograph letter, which
your excellency put in his hands yesterday, the 21st instant,
accompanied by the eloquent phrases of your excellency’s discourse,
manifesting the great desire which is felt by the illustrious
President Roosevelt that the closest friendship should exist between
the two sister Republics, the one being bound to the other by strong
commercial relations.
The President of the Dominican Republic, General Woss y Gil, and the
ministers who accompany him in the work of the Government, esteem in
a high degree and correspond loyally to this noble aspiration of the
First Magistrate of the Federal Union of the United States of
America, fully confident of the sincerity of these expressions which
conjointly your excellency has expressed in the name and by order of
the same Mr. President Roosevelt, that this Republic shall conserve
always its autonomy and its independence, and that it may reach
during the present administration the prosperity to which a united
people may aspire.
It is very grateful to me, honorable sir, to be the organ on this
occasion of the cordiality of sentiments with which President Woss Y
Gil and his Government receive such expressive manifestations of
friendship, which will find full correspondence in the way which the
Dominican Government proposes itself to encourage, by the rectitude
and the best will, in all its proceedings regarding the commercial
and political interests existing between both republics.
Accept, etc.,
[Inclosure 5.]
Mr. Powell to
Mr. Galvan.
Legation of the United States,
Santo Domingo City, October 23, 1903.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your
excellency’s note of October 22, 1903, conveying to me the kindly
expressions from His Excellency General Woss y Gil, President of
this Republic, in response to a congratulatory letter from Mr.
Roosevelt, the President of the United States of America.
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It will afford me great pleasure to communicate the contents of your
excellency’s very interesting letter to my Government.
Allow me to express to your excellency the great pleasure that Mr.
Roosevelt, the President, will feel in reading the kindly sentiments
that His Excellency the President, General Woss y Gil, and his
cabinet have for the Government and people of the United States.
I beg, etc.,
