San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-21
PAN-AMERIcA AT WORK.

considering the situation and giving
strict attention to the business which
has called them together. The scope
of the work they have undertaken IL
indicated by the report OF the commit.
tee on committees which has been or
dered printed and laid aside for future
consideration. Among the sixteen
committees recommended to be APP
pointed, the following are worthy of
special note and the discussions upon
their appointment will be followed
with interest by the American people
"A committee on customs union to
consider and report basis for an
American customs union, committees
to consider report upon the best means
of extending and improving transpor-
tation, postal and telegraph COM
munication between the several coun-
tries represented in the convention.
A committee on railway transporta-
ton between the said countries, a
committee on customs regulations
to consider the best method of sim
plifying customs regulations in the
several parts of the represented coun-
tries. A committee to report OH best
method of securing uniformity oflight-
house, pilot and other duties, and an
other upon a uniform system of
weights and measures. Committees
were also recommended on the maiI-
tainance of sanitary regulations, the
protection of patents, trademarks and
commercial rights; also for all extra
dition convention, a monetary cOnven-
ton, committee on general banking
Jaw, international law and plans tor
arbitration of all differences that may
arise between the countries repre-
sented.
AS will be seen by this outline, the
delegates to this all American con-
gress have entered very deeply into
the spirit of such a commercial union,
as will if perfected, cement the sever
al republics of this continent
into one great commercial feder-
alton. AS Secretary Blaine sits
at the head of the long table
around which are seated the delegates
of the several represented states and
it must be with q feeling f |
no small graduation that he surveys |
the scene. The dream of an Ameri-
can continent, commercially one
through all its national divisions, a !
dream which has haunted all his
ripper years and to the realization of !
which he has devoted the vast ener-
gIes of his mind, a dream whose ac-
would be the browning |
glory of his craftsmanship and stamp
him the American par excellence. of
his generation-this dream Is about
to be realized. To see around him
the representatives of those nations |
which make the sum total of the twn |
Americas assemble for the express |
purpose of giving voice and potency
to this grand dream of his ripper, man. |
lier years, may well cause The hear |
Of Mr.. Blaine to swell with eXulta-
ton. 1t is true the labors of the con
vention have not been completed, they |
,an scarcely be said to have begun, but
It is no small thing that the
A. credited delegates of these nations
are now assemb led in the capital o.
his great republic to devise ways
md means whereby this dream If
The secretary of state may be made
reality and the Munroe doctrine he
given an application far transcendin
The widest imaginings of the great
atesman who first enuuciated il
e lily cOgnizaut of the many difficult
ties that lie between this beginning
aud that ending so pregnant with
to this nation, it he
.omes us to take a hopeful view 4
the situation and in the full belle
hat there is intensest meaning in
his commercial congress at WASH
ngton, give every aid and encourage
nent to the furtherance of Its object.
It is the hour of a supreme opportun-
ty for this country and she IS to be
that the deliberations
If this body are to be- presided over
by so broad-minded and truly Ameri
IAN an. American as James Il Blaine