THE REPORT, WITH ACCOMPANYING PAPERS, OF THE DELEGATES APRIL 29, 1902.-Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. NOTE. The official language of the conference was Spanish. The translations into English were made in the office of the secretary-general of the conference. THE LIBRARY To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State submitting the report, with accompanying papers, of the delegates of the United States to the second conference of American States held at the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to January 31, 1902. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. WHITE HOUSE, April 29, 1902. To the President: Referring to the provision in the sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 6, 1900, for representation by the United States in the International Conference of American States (Statutes at Large, vol. 31, p. 637), the undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to Congress, the report, with accompanying papers, of the United States delegates to the conference in question which was in session at the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to January 31, 1902. Respectfully submitted, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, April 28, 1902. JOHN HAY. WASHINGTON, April 24, 1902. SIR: The undersigned, delegates of the United States of America to the second international conference of the American States, which met in the City of Mexico, October 22, 1901, and adjourned January 31, 1902, have the honor to submit the following report and accompanying papers: The first international conference of the American States, held in Washington in 1889–90, made no express provision for the meeting of subsequent conferences. The provision that the International Bureau of the American Republics should be conducted for ten years under the plan then adopted was, however, regarded as an implication that at about the expiration of that period another conference would be held. The first official action looking to the assembly of the second conference was taken by the late President McKinley, who, in his annual message to Congress of December 5, 1899, after referring to the interest taken by all of the States forming the International Union of the American Republics in the work of its organic bureau, and the assurance that the Bureau would continue for another period of ten years, said: In view of this fact and of the numerous questions of general interest and common benefit to all of the Republics of America, some of which were considered by the first international American conference, but not finally settled, and others which have 3 TxU 542701 |