St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-17
Central and South American
Delegates Will Erect a
Monument.
It Will Express Grateful Ap-
probation Of Uncle Sans
Hospitality,
And Typify the Congress
Adoption of the Principle
Of Arbitration.
Senator Plumb Will Attempt
to Displace the Blair
Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-The work
of the Pan-American conference has 50
far progressed that adjournment is con-
fidently expected within the next thirty
days. With that in view arrangements
are making for the trip through the
South, which will end the official hos
pitalities of the United States to the
delegates. The trip will be arranged
and carried out by the officers of the
Richmond & Danville railroad, as was
the Northern and Western trip by the
Pennsylvania railroad officials. Most of
the work of the conference is done in
committee. The status of the subjects
referred to the committee IS as follows:
Customs union, under discussion by the
conference. two reports having
been presented. The majority re-
port, recommending the nego-
tiation of reciprocity treaties
between the several nations, wherever
practicable, it is thought will be adopt
ed tomorrow. Communication on the
Atlantic report, pending in conference.
Communication on the Pacific. com
munication on the gulf of Mexico and
the Caribbean sea, customs regulations,
port dues and monetary convention,
reports prepared and in the hands of
the printer. Extradition, report being
translated. Banking and general well
fare, reports under consideration by
the committees. Railway cOmmunica-
tion, sanitary regulations, patents and
trade marks, weights and measures, and
international law, reports adopted.
Senor Mendonica, of Brazil, one of the
co mmittee appointed to devise and re-
port plan for expressing the
Grateful appreciation
by the visiting delegates of the courte-
sizes and hospitality extended by the
United States government and the dele
gates from the United States, will sub
nit to his colleagues tomorrow his
Ideas upon the subject. He will pro-
pose that the delegates from Genital
and South America inaugurate move
ment for the erection in the city of
Washington, as gift to the people of
the United States, of a monument to
commemorate the gathering of the
first congress of all the nations on the
Western hemisphere. Mr.. Mendonica,
explaining his views to-day, said it was
his desire that this monument should
not only commemorate the meeting of
the congress, but typify i'll its design
the principal results secured, chief
among which he placed the
adoption of the principle of arbitration
as the means of settling all disputes and
difficulties tnat might arise between
two American nations. The represent
atives of the Central and South Ameri-
can nations located in Washington are
to be constituted a committee to ask for
designs for the proposed monument
from architects, seulptOrs and artists in
the three Americas and superintend its
erection upon site to be designated by
the congress of the United States, to be
unveiled in 1892. For this purpose a
fund OF S125,OO0 will be proposed by
Mr.. Mendonica, to be contributed by
the nations interested in proportion to
their population. He has no doubt his
proposal will be accepted and adopted
by his colleagues.