Mr. Hay to Mr. Loomis.
Washington, November 18, 1899.
Sir: Señor Agusto F. Pulido, chargé of the Venezuelan legation, called at the Department yesterday afternoon to make oral announcement that, under instructions from the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, who appears to be the same person formerly in President Andrade’s cabinet, the chargé d’affaires and consuls of Venezuela in the United States are continued in the exercise of their functions until further notice.
Mr. Pulido was thereupon told that this Government would simply ignore the fact of a change of government in Venezuela until the question of its recognition should be raised by formal announcement and request to that end, and that the Department would in the meantime conduct all necessary diplomatic business with Señor Pulido precisely the same as if no change had occurred in the home government.
I am, etc.,