The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-21
Was Formally Opened In Rio de
Janeiro This Morning
MANY REPUBLICS WERE REPRESENTED
ARcE DELEGATION FROM THE
UNITED STAES, HEADED BY
WILLIAM BUCHANAN.

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21-The
third Pan-American Congress was
opened here today without flourish or
elaborate ceremonies, but with simple
dignity as becomes a gathering OF
representatives of number of repub-
lies. William l. Buchanan, Of New
York, the head of the United States
delegation and as such representing
the state department in Washington,
d. c.. called the congress to order and
gave a history of the first two Pam
American congresses, and of the re-
suits accomplished by them. Senior
Don Joaquin Nabuco, ambassador eX-
! traordinary and plenipotentiary of Bra
zil who heads the Brazilian delegation,
also delivered an address, welcoming
the foreign delegates from the sister
republics to Rio de Janero.
The opening session was brief, and
was mainly devoted to the arrange
ment of the preliminares of the con-
gress. The question of the time of
the sessions, the order of business and
other details came up for considera-
ton 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 limita-
ton of the subjects will probably con-
sumo the entire time of several ses-
sions.
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 Venezuela
reasons are given for the failure of
Venezuela to send delegates. Accord
ing to one statement, President Castro
refused to appoint delegates, because
he suspected the United States Of de-
signs upon the independence of the
other American republics, and feared
that the congress had been arranged
merely in the interest of the plans of
the United States. Another version is
that the real reason for President Cas-
trO's attitude is merely his disappoint-
ment that Rio de JaneirO and not Ca
holding the congress.
The delegation of the United States
consists of William I. Buchanan, Of
New York, formerly minister to Ar
gentina and first American minister to
Panama, who was also one of the
American delegates to the second PAN
American congress, held in Mexico in
1902; Edmund j. James, president of
the University of Illinois; Leo S.
Rowe, professor of political economy,
University of Pennsylvania; Tulio
Larrinaga, civil engineer of Porto Rico;
James S. Harlan, of Illinois, son of
Associate Justice John NJ. Harlan or
the United States supreme court;
Charles Ray Dean, now chief of the
bureau of appointments of the depart
ment of state, is secretary of the dele
cation, and Frank L. Joanini official
| Translator of the bureau of insular af-
fairs, war department. is official in
terpreter.
Among the delegates of the other
American republics are Senior Walker
Martinez, the Chilean minister to the
United States, representing Chile at
| the congress; Solden Baborano and
Fousio Davila, representing Honduras;
Manuel Delgado and Francisco An
tonic Reyes, representing Salvador;
DR.. Casasus, representing Mexico. Sec
rotary of State Root will arrive here
next Wednesday and will remain here
II days, before he will proceed on his
! way SOutI 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 WASHINGTON
in. March, will include sanitary and
quarantine regulations, uniformity of
patent laws, international recognition
of diplomas and of practitioners of the
learned professions questions affecting
commercial intercourse, and an inter-
national railroad. 1t is also expected
that the so-called Drago doctrine
which is opposed to the forcible COL
lection of private debts by one nation
from another, will come up for con-
iSI dow too