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which committees shall be to cooperate in the preparations for the Congress; l 

 to prepare lists of the persons to be invited to participate in its proceedings; 

 to procure an adequate representation from the several countries, and to 

 suggest such questions as, because of their evident American interest, 

 should be submitted to the Congress. 2 



3. To prepare a list of members of the Congress in conformity with the 

 provisions of Article 9. 



It is of course to be understood that the Executive Committee was 

 charged with the duty to arrange the preliminaries of the Congress, and 

 that when the Congress met and elected its officers this committee as 

 such ceased to act unless requested to do so by the Congress. That is to 

 say, the Executive, hereafter called the Preparatory Committee, pre- 

 pared the Congress and turned it over to its officers. 



But the function of the Preparatory Committee was twofold, namely, 

 to arrange for the Congress and, after its adjournment, to take such 

 final measures as were necessary to publish the proceedings and other- 

 wise to complete its labors. This was in accordance with precedent and 

 was thus stated in Article 6 of the Regulations : 



After the election of the officers of the Congress, the Executive Com- 

 mittee shall act under their direction, but shall assume its original functions 

 after the adjournment of the Congress. It shall then have charge of the 

 publication of the proceedings of the Congress. 



Upon the completion of the organization of the Congress, His Excel- 

 lency, Sr. EDUARDO SUAREZ MUJICA, Chilean Ambassador, was 

 chosen President of the Congress, as the ambassador or minister of the 

 country in which the preceding Congress was held, accredited to the 

 country in which the new Congress is to meet, becomes the President of 

 the Congress. JOHN BARRETT, Director General of the Pan American 

 Union, was chosen Secretary General; JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Reporter 

 General ; and GLEN LEVIN SWIGGETT, Professor, University of Tennessee, 

 Assistant Secretary General. 



It was deemed advisable to appoint an Executive Committee of the 

 Congress consisting of the chairmen of the official delegations of the 

 twenty-one American Republics, and in order that the new Executive 

 Committee thus composed should be kept in touch with the Preparatory 

 Committee it was decided that one of its members should be elected to 

 the Executive Committee, with the understanding, however, that the 

 United States should have but one vote therein. Mr. James Brown 

 Scott was accordingly selected as the representative of the Preparatory 

 Committee by the Executive Committee of the Congress. The program 



1 See Appendix VI, pp. 309, 323. s See Appendix II, p. 159. 



