Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-05
THE PAN-RKpUsL1c CONGRESS.
Plans Outlined for q Great Internationa
Gathering.

| flans Outlined for q Great 1nternaffona
| Gathering.
The subcommittee appointed by the commit
mittee on plan and scope Of the pan-republic
congress made mp a report Yesterday. which
will be presented to the committee of two hun
dred when that committee meets next month
In Washington. The report says:
| The name Of the proposed conference will
be the pan-republic congress and will be held
in 1888 in the United States in the city do
cided upon by the committee of two hundred.
The committees will be coincideut in time with
the Columbian exposition. but shall have no
| connection Herewith. The congress viii con-
sist of two bodies. The one composed Of dele
gates, who shall be nominated by the execu-
| tives of the various republics of the world on
the basis of one delegate-at-large from every
republic and one delegate for every ]. 600 600 of
citizens and for fractions exceeding half that
number, the second body to be composed of
delegates from the great patriotic. civil COM
merc1ni, educational and industrial organiza-
tons that express in their fundamental laws a
devotion to the principles enumerated in the
Declaration of Independence of the United
states OF America, and shall be approved by the
executive committee Of the proposed PAN
republic congress.
These delegates shall consist of the ranking
o'heers OF such organizations, one delegate at
large from the organiza ton. one delegate for
each iOoCUO OF their number il good standing
or a traction of that number exceeding 10000
All delegates from the other nations OF the
EARN on inc basis OF one delegate at large from
each one OF the different Lations and one dele
gate from each 1000, 900 citizens CT fraction of
that number exceeding cne-balf
Ihese appointed delegates who receive
he!r appointment frcm the executives of the
various governments represented at the
congress, snail constitute a council senate or
~ sorI Il. m
such relation in general to the ass n bly as the
senate OF the United States bears to the Hcuse
Oh Representatives. Those appcintive delegates
VINO shall be chosen by TIE various civil, COM
nerclal, educational ard indu strial societies
among the nations together with the invited
delegates from the various nations shall con-
sutute an assembly or l1wey house of the
congress.
SUBJECTS TO BE CONSIDERED.
In the confederation Of civil or political in
st,tutions the congress shonld d.al WITH
1. such questions % constitutional and ad-
mlnistrative form among the nations as may be
deemed promoti-e If the interests If pr.blic
liberty, the rights Of citizenship AMI the main
'enance and extensions OF frse II stitutions.
z. such questions in p,rricular as NAV pro
mote the establishm snt Of the principles CT
arbitration among al civilized states instead of
the barbarous code CT war.
8. Such questions as shall tend by their dis
cussion 10 prevent or extngTlsh the seventies,
cruelties and injustice of goYernmepts toward
their subjects
4. Such questions al may ten / BY their dis
cusslon to promote the disarmament Of the ma
lions. the dissolution of all stan ling armies
and the substitution Therefor Of ths ruls Of in
teHlgence. international morality and Justice
among the peoples II the earth.
D. Such questions as by their discussion NAV
tend to promote and perfect international inter-
course on terms Of equality and justice among
the people CT the earth.
8. Such questions as by their discussion NAV
promote the principles Of mutual advantage
among the nations in trade and commerce.
Z. Such questions as by thsir discussion NAV
conduce to the diffusion Of international intel
igence.
8. Such questions in particular as by their
discussion may tend to promote rep1blicanism,
namely, government Of the people, by the
people and for the people, the best attainable
FORM OF civil and political organization known
to men.
u Such questions as relate to the mental vel
fare and intellectual health of the nation as the
same may be determined by the judicious sys-
tenn OF education, freedom of the press and the
dlnuslon OF knowledge by means of literature.
~ Such questions as relate to the physical
welfare OF mankind, as the general sanitation
OF the people, Statutory quarantine and the en-
couragement OF those branches of investigation
which conduce to the discovery of new methods
OF prolonging and protecting human life.
IL. such other questions relating TO the gem
eral well-being OF mankind as NAV suepegt
themselves to enlightea consideration in tbe
interim between the present and the opening
OF the congress.