The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-31
THE BUREAU OF REPUBLICS.
CUBA HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO THE
INTERNATIONAL UNION.

New Republic Makes the Twentieth
at Washington Is Much PIeasahter
Since He Became a FuII-F1edged
Minister-surgeOn General wy
man Wants International Sanitary
Conference Postponed Until De-
cember.
Washington. July 30.-When the re-
public of Cuba was admitted into the
family of nations she also became a
member of the sisterhood of American
republics, and, as such, entitled to rep
resentation in the International Union
of the American Republics. In order
that she might avail herself of this
right it was necessary that she should
pay an assessment for the support of
the International Bureau of the Amer
lean Republics in proportion to her
population. This assessment has been
paid and she is now a full-fledged
member of the union in good standing
Her minister to Washington. Senior
Gonzales Quesada, is now, ex-offico, a
member of the Governing Board of the
Bureau of the American Republics,
and has a voice in the direction of its
affairs equal to that of the representa-
tive of any other American republic.
The accession of Cuba to the Interna-
tional Union increases it's membership
to twenty, and that number of nations
will be represented in the Third Inter-
national American Conference which
will be held within the next five years
at one of the American capitals-the
exact time and the place of the meet
ing to be fixed by the Governing Board
of the International Bureau. of which
the Secretary of State of the United
States is chairman and the diplomatic
representatives of the Latin American
republics are members.
Senior Quesada finds his position here
much more agreeable than it was when
he was in Washington as the agent
of the Cuban Insurgents. Then he
was not only unrecognzed officially
by the Administration, but he could
not be received socially by officials of
this government or by the Diplomatic
representatives. of other governments
without danger of giving offense to
the government of Spain. The doors
of the Metropolitan club. which are al
ways opened to all diplomats. were
closed against him and he saw little
of the social life of Washington. Now
all is charged. The Metropolitan Club
welcomes him, and he and Sonora
Quesada are received in all the Of
fetal and diplomatic households of
Washington. The Minister and Sonora
Quesada are living during the summer
months at Chevy Chase Inn, a fash
ionable suburban hotel, where the
summer heat is tempered by breezes
which blow almost continuously from
the southwest.
Wyman Makes n Suggestion.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman, of
the Marine Hospital Service. has sug-
gested to the Governing Board of the
international Bureau of the American
Republics, through the Secretary Of
State, that the meeting of the Inter-
national American Sanitary Confer
ence, which was to convene in WASH
ington in October, be postponed until
Dec. 2. The object of this proposed
postponement is to enable the dele
gates to this conference from the vari-
Gus atin-American countries to at
tend the meetings of the National Pub
lie Health Association, which is to
meet in New Orleans. Dec. s. The
| question of postponement has been re-
ferred to the ministers of the several
nations interested. AS far as heard
change in date.
The purpose of the International Con-
ference Is to bring about the adoption
of better sanitary methods by the ma
tions of America, especially with a
view to Kidding their seaport cities of
pestilential diseases. When the re-
forms which will be advocated by the
conference shall have been put in prac-
tice, quarantine and the detention of
vessels and their passengers to prevent
the spread of diseases will very large
ly be done away with. The work of
the United States, under the military
government, in cleaning up the cities
of Cuba and Graduating yellow fever
and other diseases from them, has
shown what can be done by intelligent
effort along these lines. and with this
example before them it is hoped that
the other nations of the Western Hem
isphere whose seaport cities have been
centers of infection will clean up and
lessen the danger to which not only
their own people, but all who have
commercial intercourse with them are
at present exposed