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7. In the advance of the centuries, there would be, perhaps, < ne 

 single nation covering the world — the federal nation. 



These ideas are in the mind 01 some Americans of the most prominent 

 class; they are awaiting impatiently the initiation of this project in the 

 Panama congress, which may be the occasion of consolidating the union 

 of the new States with the British Empire. 



(Lima, February. 1826.) 



BoUvAR. 



SOCIAL PROGRAM. 



Reference has been made to the appointment of official committees 

 in New York, New Orleans, and Washington for the reception of the dis- 

 tinguished delegates from Latin America and members of their families 

 on their arri\'al in these cities. Numerous courteous attentions were 

 shown the guests of this country by those designated to represent the 

 United States, or detailed for such hospitable services on this occasion. 

 Singly and in groups the members of the congress from the Latin Amer- 

 ican countries began to arrive in Washington about ten days before the 

 date of the official opening. The official delegation from Argentina, 

 with Dr. Ernesto Quesada as chainnan, was one of the earliest to 

 arrive. The larger part, however, of the delegates arriving by way of 

 New York remained in that city until Sunday, December 26, and were 

 carried to Washington by special train on the afternoon of that day. 

 The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace assisted as host on 

 this occasion, in line with a generous policy of entertainment befitting 

 a congress of this magnitude and worthy of these eminent Latin 

 Americans, many of whom had been invited by the Endowment to be 

 its guests while in attendance at this international gathering. The 

 Endowment's three divisions, international law, education and inter- 

 course, and economics and history, shared in this hospitality through 

 their respective directors, Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the 

 Endowment, President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, 

 and Dr. John Bates Clark, professor of political economy Columbia 

 University. They were assisted in the details of entertainment by Dr. S. 

 N. D. North and George Finch, of the Endowment, and by Dr. Peter 

 H. Goldsmith, and Henry S. Haskell, director and assistant director 

 of the Pan American division of the American Association for Interna- 

 tional Conciliation. The arrangements for social entertainment in Wash- 

 ington were carefully planned and carried out with the dispatch and 

 propriety consonant with such a gathering. The Department of State 

 detailed Maddin Summers, Stedman Hanks, and Charles Lee Cooke 



