Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-25
PRESENTS HIS LETTERS.
Argentine Minister'S Address and the
Presidents Response.

The Argentine minister said, on being
presented to the President yesterday after
noon:
Most excellent Mr.. President, have the
honor to place in your hands the letters OF
the most excellent president of the Argen-
tine Republic announcing, respectively, the
termination of Senior Martin Garcia Me-
rou's mission near the government of your
excellency and my appointment to succeed
him in the same capacity of envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
81 am returning to the United states,
most excellent sir, for the second time,
having had the honor and good fortune or
discharging my first diplomatic duties here,
and my enthusiastic admiration for this
country, which has given to the world the
model, as perfect as it can be made by
man, of government of the people by the
people This, I may add, is the dominant
sentiment in my country, whose political or
ganization was framed after the pattern OF
your organic law. These personal senu-
ments make it unnecessary for me to say
that l will strive to discharge the hlgn
duty with which L am charged by my
government to endeavor to draw closer ana
enlarge with your excellencys govern
ment our relations of every character, and
particularly those which in our days con-
stitute the strongest bonds among nations,
will deign to extend to me the favor en-
joyed by my honorable predecessor, l may,
even now consider that the success of my
mission Is assured.
with my wishes for the prosperity or
the American people 1 also tender my
most effusive wishes for your excellency's
personal happiness"
The Presidents Response.
The President said in reply:
Mr.. Minister: In receiving from your
hands the letters by which his excellency
the president of the Argentine Republic
announces, respectively, the termination of
Senior Martin Garcia Merous mission near
the government of the United States ana
your appointment to succeed him as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary,
am pleased to assure you of my high ap-
probation of the friendly sentiments of his
excelency, and of those so kindly and
agreeably expressed by you, and to say
that l am sincerely glad to welcome you
back to this capital, the scene of your first
diplomatic duties.
lit is very gratifying to know that the
high office so ably and acceptably filled by
Senior Merou, has been entrusted to one so
exceptionally qualified as yourself, by ex-
perience and a knowledge of our institu-
lions and people, to conduct the affairs of
the mission in a manner mutually beneficial
to your own country and to this.
sit shall be my constant wish and en-
deavor to foster the friendship happily SUBJ
sisting between this government and peo-
pie and those Of the Argentine Republic,
and to cooperate with you in the accom-
plishment of the commendable aims which
you have made known to me.
II beg that you will convey to his excel
lency the president my most sincere wishes
for his welfare and happiness and for the
continued prosperity OF the people over
whom he presides. I thank you for your
own expressions OF good Will, and trust
that your residence In Washington will be
most agreeable one.
s.I shall take an early occasion to make
direct acknowledgment to his excellency,
President Quintana. of Senior Merou's letter
OF recall