IVaslingtO" City, Tuesday Evening


March q 1917
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SIR: had the honor to receive your note of
the 9th instant, with the commission of major gen.
eral in the army, and delayed the answer of ac-
cep,ance or non-acceptance, until should receive
an answer from the President 10 note which
addressed TO him in the morning of that day.
That answer is received, and enables me to
answer your note, and to say, that the commits
sion is not accepted. .. .-...z


Please to accept, sir, my thanks for the kind
terms of your note, and for the thousand cour,e-
sizes which you have extended TO me in the course
of our long and friendly acquaintance.


Most truly and respectfully yours, 49,.


THOMAS H. BENTON.


To ADIurANT GENERAL JONES