East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-21

Rio de Janeiro, July 2t.-The third
Pln-American congress was opened
here today without flourish or elab-
crate ceremonies, but with simple dig
nifty. as becomes Il gathering of rep
resentatives of a number of republics.
William !. buchanan, of New York,
the head of the United States delega-
tion. and as such representing the
state department i'm Washington, ID.
c., called the congress to order and
delivered a brief address in which he
gave n history of the first two Pan
American congresses and of the re-
suits accomplished by them. Senior
Don Joaquin Nabuco, ambassador ex-
traordinary and plenipotentiary of
Brazil, who heads the Brazilian dele
cation, also delivered an address, well
coming the foreign delegates from the
sister republics to Rio de Janeiro.
The opening session was brief and
was mainly devoted to the arrange
ment of the preliminaries of the con-
gress. The question of the time of
the session. the order of business and
tion and were referred to committees,
which will report to the congress at
the next session After the prelimi-
naries are definitely settled. the pro-
gram of the subjects to be considered
by the congress will be taken up. The
consideration of the scope and limi-
tation of the subjects will probably
9n % y,1
sessions.
Besides the United States all the
South and Central American republics
represented at the second Pan-Amer-
lean congress are represented at the
present congress, excepting Venezue-
la, which has sent no delegates. Va
rious reasons are given for the fail
ure OF Venezuela to send delegates
According to one statement, President
Castro refused to appoint delegates,
because he suspected the United States
of designs upon the independence of
the other American republics and
feared that the congress had been ar
ranged merely in the interest of the
plans of the United States. Another
version Is that the real reason for
President Castro's attitude is merely
his disappointment that Rio de jan
eiro and not Caracas was selected as
the place for holding the congress.
The delegation of the United States
consists of William l. Buchanan, of
| New York. formerly minister to Ar
gentina and first American minister
. 70 L.. Ia.
| American delegates to the second Pam
| American congress, held in Mexico In
| 1902; Edmund J. James, president Of
the University of Illinois; Leo 5.
| Rowe, professor of political economy,
| University of Pennsylvania; Tulio Lar
rinaga, civil engineer of Porto Rico;
James S. Harlan, of Illinois, son of
| Associate Justice John NJ. Harlan, of
| the United States supreme court;
Charles Ray Dean. of Illinois. now
chief of the bureau of appointments
Of the department of state, is secre-
| tary Of the delegation, and Frank L..
Joannini, official translator of the
| bureau Of insular affairs. war depart
ment, is official interpreter.
Among the delegates of the other
American republics are Senor Walker
Martinez, the Chilean minister to the
United States, representing Chile at
the congress; Soldero Baborano and
Fousino Davila, representing Hondu-
rasi Manuel Delgado and Francisco
Antonio Reyes. representing Salvador;
DR.. Casasus, representing Mexico. Sec
retary of State Root will arrive here
next Wednesday and will remain here
10 days, before he will proceed on his
way south. He will attend some of
the sessions of the congress, but not
as regular delegate of the United
States.
The program of the congress, which
has been practically agreed upon at
the preliminary meeting in Washing
ton In March, will include sanitary
and quarantine regulations, uniformity
of patent laws, international recogni-
ton of diplomas and of practitioners
of the learned professions, questions
affecting commercial intercourse, and
an international railroad. 1t is also
doctrine, which Is opposed to the for
cible collection of private debts by
one nation from another, will come up
for consideration in some form.
Monster Engines for U. =.