The Washington times., 1915-12-25
MANY YDELEGATESOF
PAN,AMER|CA HERE
FOR CONFERENCE
Scientific Congress will Be Con-
vened Monday Forty-five
T Sections in Congress.

began today at the willard, the werk OF
preparing for the big gathering Of SEQ
entists, statesmen, scholars and legal
authorities of the American republics
on Monday morning is nearing compile
tion.
Tomorrow the registration will be
practically completed. and the work Of
the congress proper can then be under
taken. The great force Of clerks and
translators who have been busy for the
past two months at the Pan-American
Union, and who are now installed in Of
fices established at the willard, will
turn their attention from now on to the
affairs of the congress and the forty
five sections as they meet.
The first meeting of the congress, to
be addressed by Secretary of State
Lansing and formally called to order
by Ambassador Eduardo Suarez- Mujica.
OF Chile, president of the congress. will
be held at Continental Memorial Hall
Monday morning at 10 o'clock, and it is
expected that every delegate will be In
the hall
Meets In Sections.
There will be but two regular meet
ings Of the congress proper, according
to present arrangements After the
opening session on Monday morning the
delegates will divide themselves into
nine sections and each section will be
divided into subsecdons so that there
will be in all forty-five section meet
ings in progress beginning Tuesday and
continuing until January 8.
On January 6 the second and last reg
ular meeting of the congress proper
will be held when the chairmen Of the
various sections will make their reports
and the resolutions and recommenda-
tions prepared by the sections will be
considered and adopted or rejected.
There may be other meetings OF the
congress If matters of Importance that
demand joint action come up for con-
sideration-but because Of the long
program for the sections such meetings
are not provided for in the official pro-
gram.
President Wilson will address the
delegates at the final session and he
will officially receive them at the White
House on the following day.
List of Officials. -
President Wilson is the honorary
president Of the Congress. Ambassador
Suarez, Of Chile. as president. will pre-
side at the meetings of the congress
proper. The vice president are Secre-
tary of State Robert Lansing. Ambas-
sador da Cana. Of Brazil; Minister
of Uruguay; Minister Mendez. OF
Minister Betancourt. Of Columbia
Minister Velazquez, Of Paraguay; MIN
lister Morales, of Panama Minister
Chamorro. of Nicaragua; Minister Cor.
dova. of Ecuador; Minister Menos, of
Haiti; Minister de Despedes. OF Cuba
Minister Dominica. of Venezuela: Min
Quesada, of Costa Rica Minister Ar
mando Perez Perdomo. of the Domi-
nican Republic; Charge d'Affaires Diaz
Of Honduras. and Charge dAraires
Quintana, of Argentina.
The delegates to the congress are di'
vided into two classes-the official rep
resentatves Of the twenty-three coun.
tries Of North, South. and Centra
America appointed by the government
and the official representatives. Of the
universities, learned societies, and as
sociations of scientific and educationa
character. chosen by the members Of
these organizations. There are eighty
of the frst-named class. These are the
delegates who will cast the vote of theil
country in the congress. each country
being entitled to one vote. There are
more than 800 Of the latter class. Thes,
include the distinguished scientists. edu
chosen as the representatives OF th'
various organizations. These are thu
men whose reports and discussions will
provide the basis for the recommends
lions to be made to the congress. and
therefore, to the governments Of the va
rious countries represented.
List of Delegates.
The official delegates of the countries
represented are:
United States-Judge George Gray. o
Delaware, chairman; William H
Welch, president of the National Acad
emy Of Sciences: William Phillips
Third Assistant Secretary of State
James Brown Scott secretary Carnegi
Endowment for International Peace
John Barrett. director Pan-America
Union; Brig. Gen. William II. Bixby
S. A.. retired; Franz Boas. Columbi
University; John A. Brachear. presiden
American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers; Richard c. Cabot, NJ. D.. Har
director of the Lick Observatory; p. F
Claxton. United States COMMISSIONS
of Education; Henry b. Fine, Prince
ton University; Maj. Gen. William {
Gorgas. Surgeon General. Z. s. A
Henry s. Graves. chief United State
Forest Service: William II. Holmes
head curator Smithsonian Institution
Henen Jennings, former president Lor
don Institution OF Mining and Meta
lurgy George NJ. Rommel. Depar rtmer
OF Agriculture l.. s. Rowe, presider
American Academy of Political and 81
cial Science; Alfred p. Thorn, chic
counsel Southern Railway; Charles |
Walcott. secretary Smithsonian Institl
ton; Robert S. Woodward. presider
Carnegie Institution. of Washington
Walter Penfield. secretary of the dell
cation. and Henry Ralph Ringe, assis
ant secretary of the delegation.
Argentina: DR.. Ernesto Quesad
member of the faculty of philosopt
and letters in the National Universi
OF Buenos Aires, chairman; Dr. Jul
B. Ambrosetti. Emilio f. Dagassa
DIR. Cristobal Hicken, Admiral jus
A. Martin, chief of the Argentine nav
commission in the United States; q
Augustin Mercau. professor of phys
cal science. mathematics and astro
omy of the University of the Plat
Or. Ricardo Sarmiento Laspiur, al
DR. Tomas S. Varela.
Bolivia: Minister Calderon and
Constant Lurquin.
Brazil: Ambassador da Cana.
Chile: Ambassador Eduardo Suar
Mujica, Alexandra Alvarez, Ricar
Cox Mendez. Javier Diaz Lira, Jor
Merry. Teodoro Muhm. Julio Philip
DIR. Javier RodrigueB BarrOs, Dario
Salas, Ramon Salas Edwards, and A
turo SalaZar.