REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAI^. 1 3 



There is no remuneration in connection with the service of this com- 

 mittee, and it is understood that the members of the committee, as such, 

 are not delegates on the part of the United States to the congress. 



Hoping that the department may be fortunate enough to avail itself of 

 your assistance, 

 I am, etc., 



W. J. Bryan. 



The members appointed on June 17 were: 



Wiivi/iAM Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State. 



John Barrett, Director General, Pan American Union. 



Philander P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education. 



William H. Holmes, Head Curator National Museum, Smithsonian 



Institution. 

 William C. Gorgas, Surgeon General, United States Army. 

 Georg^ M. Rommel, Chief, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of 



Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. 

 Leo S. Rowe, Head Professor of Political Science, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 

 . James Brown Scott, Secretary, Carnegie Endowment for Interna- 

 tional Peace. 

 By April, 1915, the committee had been enlarged through the appoint- 

 ment by the Secretary of State of the following members: 



W. H. BixBY, Brigadier General, United States Army, retired. 



Hennen Jennings, mining engineer. 



Dr. William H. Welch, pathologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns 



Hopkins University. 

 Robert S. Woodward, President, Carnegie Institution. 

 John Barrett, director general of the Pan American Union, and Glen 

 Levin Swiggett, professor of romance languages. University of Tennessee, 

 were appointed by the Secretary of State in March, 191 5, to act, respec- 

 tively, as secretary general and assistant secretary general of the congress. 

 The permanent executive committee of organization as finally consti- 

 tuted was as follows : 



Executive Committee. 



William Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, Chairman 

 ex officio. 



James Brown Scott, Secretary, Carnegie Endowment for Interna- 

 tional Peace, Vice Chairman and Reporter General. 



William H. Welch, former President, National Academy of Sci- 

 ence, Honorary Vice Chairman. 



