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project of adherence to the convention of The 

 Hague, signed by 15 delegations, and submits it 

 to the consideration of the conference, in order 

 that as soon as it may be approved it be trans- 

 mitted by the secretary to the Department of 

 Foreign Relations of Mexico." 



Mr. Carbo, for Ecuador, entreated the confer- 

 ence to accept this proposition. The discussion 

 being continued without any apparent hope of 

 reaching an end, the president said that, in view 

 of the constant censures made by Mr. Walker- 

 Martinet on the rulings of the chairman, he was 

 obliged to break the silence which his official 

 capacity as president imposed upon him not only 

 to determine the precise matter under debate, but 

 also to appeal to the delegation of Chile, on whose 

 answer would depend the ruling that the chair- 

 man would make and the course that would be 

 given to the discussion. He said the only thing 

 under debate was the previous ruling, and con- 

 cluded by asking the delegation of Chile to be 

 good enough to say if it withdrew its opposition to 

 that ruling. As Chile refused to do this, the dis- 

 cussion of the ruling was continued. Two days 

 were taken up in the stormy discussion without 

 the question of the ruling being brought to a vote, 

 when a happy solution at last was devised by Mr. 

 Buchanan, of the United States, who said that ' 

 the minutes of the conference for the two days 

 past showed, in the remarks officially made by 

 each of the Chilean delegates and by the dele- 

 gate from Ecuador, their entire and hearty con- 

 currence in the principles of The Hague conven- 

 tion, and their cordial and unqualified acceptance 

 thereof. These facts were therefore on record, and 

 to the end that these expressions of adherence on 

 the part of the two delegations might have the 

 proper, courteous, and consistent weight and voice 

 given to the similar expressions made in the 

 protocol on the part of the other delegations, he 

 requested the president, in the name of those dele- 

 gations, with the consent of those of Chile and 

 Ecuador, to transmit with said protocorthe min- 

 utes of the two past days referred to, in order 

 that the protocol and said minutes should be 

 communicated to the Mexican Minister of For- 

 eign Relations, and that the documents be com- 

 municated to the respective governments as an 

 expression of the general adherence to the con- 

 ventions of The Hague. Chile and Ecuador an- 

 nounced their acceptance of this proposition be- 

 cause it fulfilled the desires expressed by them in 

 the course of the debate. This part of the ques- 

 tion on arbitration being closed, the secretary 

 read a note addressed to the president by the 

 delegations of the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, the 

 Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Salvador, Mexi- 

 co, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, in 

 which they announced that they had concluded a 

 treaty of compulsory arbitration besides the one 

 of adherence to the conventions of The Hague, 

 and that they sent the said treaty to the con- 

 ference in order that it should transmit it to 

 the Department of Foreign Relations of Mexico 

 to be perfected.. The president ruled that this 

 treaty be transmitted to the Department of For- 

 eign Afl'airs for the purpose stated, and the all- 

 important question of arbitration was closed, after 

 which the work of the conference was speedily 

 brought to an end. On the afternoon of Thurs- 

 day, Jan. 30, all remaining business being dis- 

 posed of, a vote of thanks was extended to the 

 secretaries of the various delegations, as also to 

 the press representatives; farewells were said, and 

 complimentary remarks and a general feeling of 

 good-fellowship prevailed. Closing remarks were 

 read by the president, after which it was an- 



nounced that there would be a closing session on. 

 the following afternoon to which the friends and 

 families of the delegates and their, secretaries 

 were invited. These closing exercises took place 

 after a sumptuous banquet given at Chapultepec 

 by the Peruvian delegation. A farewell speech 

 was read by Senor Mariscal, Mexico's Minister of 

 Foreign Relations, after which the delegates, their 

 secretaries, and the press representatives and 

 their families were escorted to the other end of 

 the palace, where they were congratulated on 

 their good work by President Diaz, who took 

 leave of them all, shaking hands with them as 

 they passed out. 



The work of the conference is represented by the 

 following protocol, treaties, conventions, resolu- 

 tions, and recommendations: 



Protocol of adhesion by the American republic* 

 to the convention for the pacific settlement of in- 

 ternational disputes signed at The Hague July 

 29, 1899; treaty of compulsory arbitration signed 

 by 10 delegations; treaty for arbitration of pecuni- 

 ary claims; resolution favoring construction of 

 the Pan-American Railway; resolution providing^ 

 for an international customs congress; resolutions 

 for consideration by the customs congress of means 

 to facilitate American international commerce; 

 resolution on quarantine and international sanita- 

 tion; resolution providing for reorganization of 

 the International Bureau of the American Re- 

 publics; resolution providing for collection and 

 publication of more complete information regard- 

 ing the sources of production and statistics of the 

 American republics; resolution providing for an 

 international American congress to consider the 

 crisis in the coffee industry; recommendation for 

 establishment of an international American ar- 

 cheological commission; resolution approving the 

 construction of an interoceanic canal by the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States; recommendation 

 for establishment of an international American 

 bank ; resolutions of greeting to the future Repub- 

 lic of Cuba ; recommendation in favor of the Phila- 

 delphia Commercial Museum ; resolution approv- 

 ing the Louisiana-Purchase Exposition; resolution 

 congratulating the officials of the Pan-American 

 Exposition and the citizens of Buffalo; resolution 

 communicating to the American republics the in- 

 vitation of the International Association of 

 Olympic Games to participate in the games to 

 take place in Chicago in 1904; resolution thank- 

 ing Gen. Rafael Reyes, of Colombia, for his work 

 in exploring the river systems of South America, 

 and commending his work to the several govern- 

 ments; resolution congratulating Mr. Santos- 

 Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut; resolution ex- 

 pressing esteem for Mr. Carlos Calvo, the Argen- 

 tine writer on international law; resolution 

 thanking the officers of the conference; resolution 

 thanking the President of Mexico and other of- 

 ficials for their hospitality to the conference; 

 treaty for extradition of criminals and for pro- 

 tection against anarchy; convention for practise 

 of the learned professions; convention for forma- 

 tion of codes of public and private international 

 law; convention on literary and artistic copy- 

 rights; convention for exchange of documents 

 and government publications; treaty on patents 

 and trade-marks: convention on the rights of 

 aliens; resolution providing for future interna- 

 tional American conferences; and a convention 

 signed by the delegations of the Argentine Re- 

 public, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and 

 Uruguay for a geographical congress at Rio de 

 Janeiro. 



It is believed that the results of the conference 

 will be of great and lasting benefit to the nations 



