[Inclosure.] [No. 1439.] AN ACT Providing a method of enabling masters of ships in certain cases to secure the return to their ships of seamen who have deserted therefrom in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission that: SECTION 1. On application of a consul or vice-consul of any foreign government having a treaty with the United States stipulating for the restoration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such government while in any port of the Philippine Islands, and on proof, by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship's roll, or other official document, that the person named belonged at the time of desertion to the crew of such vessel, it shall be the duty of the supreme court, or of any court of first instance, or of any judge thereof, or of any judge of a municipal court lawfully established in the Philippine Islands, to issue warrants to cause such person to be arrested for examination. If, on examination, the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of the United States, or of the Philippine Islands, shall be delivered up to the consul or vice-consul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such government, or, on the request and at the expense of the consul or vice-consul, shall be detained until the consul or vice-consul finds an opportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such government. No persons so arrested shall be detained more than two months after his arrest, but at the end of that time shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again molested for the same cause. If any such deserter shall be found to have committed any crime or offense, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which the case shall be pending, or may be cognizable, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect. SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of “An act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted January 16, 1906. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE. The Italian Chargé to the Secretary of State. MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: [Translation.] ROYAL EMBASSY OF ITALY, Washington, D. C., December 30, 1905. I have received from His Majesty's Government, which has it greatly at heart not to delay too long the actual organization of the International Agricultural Institute, main object of the conference that was held at Rome between the end of May and beginning of June of this year, further earnest and urgent instructions which impel me again to have recourse to your excellency's well-known courtesy to the end that you may be pleased to obtain for me the cooperation of the Government of the United States in that part of the execution of the declared purpose which immediately concerns it. Although I have already had the honor to lay this matter before your excellency orally at the last two weekly visits made to the department on the 21st and 28th instant, I beg you to pardon my complying with my instructions by asking to state in precise terms the exact desire of the Royal Government and by so doing in the present communication written for that purpose. While begging your excellency kindly to take into consideration the note No. 2101 addressed to you under date of August 9 last by Baron Mayor des Planches, I venture to observe that it was not a binding convention that was signed at the conference of Rome, but merely a "final act" embodying a draft of convention, to which the signature of plenipotentiaries appointed by the respective governments is now requested. The said powers can subsequently call upon the organs designated by the Constitution of each one of the high contracting parties to ratify the said convention. By your note No. 299, of the 23rd of August," and your letter of the 24th of November last, your excellency was so good as to inform the royal ambassador and repeat to me that your most excellent colleague of the Agricultural Department had, after examination of the question, decided to call it to the attention of the proper committees of Congress upon the reconvening of that body in the current month of December. This part of the legislative procedure requisite for the ratification of the convention, and in respect of which I again most earnestly entreat your excellency will, through your good offices and favorable advice, bring about such a result as that achieved by His Majesty's Government, does not stand in the way or dispose of that part of administrative action which consists in merely affixing a signature to the convention in the name of the Federal Government as a signatory to the act itself. I, therefore, voice the wishes of my Government in coming to your excellency with a request that you will, in the meanwhile, and with such promptness as you may think my request merits, take steps toward the designation of the plenipotentiary whom the Federal Government will entrust with the duty of signing the convention of June 7th. I shall be greatly obliged to your excellency for such answer as you may be pleased to return, and embrace the opportunity to renew, etc. No. 96.] G. C. MONTAGNA. Ambassador White to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN EMBASSY, SIR: I have the honor to inform you that when calling at the foreign office recently on other business, I was asked by the director general, Senator Melvano, whether I had heard anything from my Government as to its probable action with respect to the convention for the proposed international institute of agriculture. He said that nineteen powers-among them Russia, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, France, and Denmark-have already signed the convention; that six others, of which Germany is one, have notified to the Italian Government their intention to do likewise-the German ambassador having been actually notified of the approaching arrival of his authorization to sign the convention-and that fifteen countries, our own among them, have not yet been heard from. a Not printed. Senator Malvano added that as the creation of the international institute of agriculture is a subject in which the King takes a deep interest, as well as this Government, the foreign office would be glad to hear at as early a date as practicable from those powers whose views and intentions had not yet been announced, especially from the United States, who, he hoped, would not fail to join the convention. I replied that I had as yet heard nothing from you on the subject, but that I should report to you what he had said, and I suggested his sending me, for your information, a memorandum, of which I inclose a copy and translation, setting forth the names of the powers which have joined the convention, of those which have expressed their intention to do so, and of those which have yet to be heard from on the subject. I have, etc., HENRY WHITE. [Inclosure. Translation.] MEMORANDUM-CONVENTION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE. (a) States that have signed: Italy, Montenegro, Russia, Argentina, Roumania, Servia, Belgium, Salvador, Portugal, Mexico, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Persia, Japan, Ecuador, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Denmark. (b) States which have notified their adhesion and have also designated their respective plenipotentiaries for the signature of the convention: Greece, Santo Domingo, Netherlands, Peru, Germany," Egypt. (c) State which has announced its adhesion, but from which the official notification has not yet arrived: Chile. (d) States which have given no reply: Austria-Hungary, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, United States of America, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Sweden, Turkey, Uruguay. a Ambassador Monte has already received the advice of full powers. The Secretary of State to Ambassador White. [Telegram.-Paraphrase.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 20, 1906. (Mr. Root instructs Mr. White upon his return to Rome to sign agricultural convention, subject to advice and the consent of Senate and enactment of legislation by Congress to give it effect so far as concerns the United States.) No. 66.] The Secretary of State to Chargé Hitt. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 29, 1906. SIR: Referring to Mr. White's No. 96, of the 2d instant, in regard to the adhesion of the United States to the convention establishing the international institute of agriculture, I inclose a full power authorizing Mr. White to sign the convention, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate and the enactment of legislation to give it effect so far as concerns the United States. I am, etc., ELIHU ROOT. The Italian Chargé to the Secretary of State. [Translation.] Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: ROYAL EMBASSY OF ITALY, The States which were represented at the conference of last year at Rome for the creation of an international institute of agriculture have now all sanctioned by the signature of their plenipotentiaries the convention drafted at that conference and approved by its unanimous vote. His Majesty the King at the council of January 28 last signed a decree, a few copies of which I have the honor to inclose, by which a royal commission is established, and whose precise duty is to carry into effect, as soon as it becomes operative, the convention which will soon be referred to the several contracting governments for ratification. His Majesty the King, desiring again to prove how much he has at heart the contemplated international institute, has ordered that the net income of the royal domains of Tombelo and Coltano, amounting yearly to 300,000 lire, shall be turned over to the above-mentioned royal commission from the 1st of July next until the day when, the international institute of agriculture being legally constituted, the administration and usufruct of the said domains shall, in accordance with the announcement made to the international conference at its session of June 6, 1905, be transferred to the institute itself. In obedience to His Majesty's interest, the royal commission has decided to apply the sum graciously placed at its disposal for the aforesaid period to the construction of a palace, where the international institute will have its headquarters, and which will therefore be solely due to the munificence of the sovereign. The new building that is to stand on the village Umberto I, near the Porta Pinciana, and will cover 10,000 square meters of public property, will, it is fully expected, be completed about the end of next year, which is the time when the permanent committee of the institute will likely be convened at Rome. This munificent act of His Majesty the King, whereby the erection of quarters worthy of the international institute of agriculture is provided for, thus begins the execution of the convention of June 7, 1905. While acquainting your excellency with the foregoing. I gladly avail, etc., 59605-F B 1906- -60 G. C. MONTAGNA. No. 167.] Ambassador White to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN EMBASSY, Rome, April 12, 1906. SIR: Referring to your telegraphic instruction of January 20 last, I have the honor to inclose copies thereof and of my reply of this date stating that I yesterday signed, in behalf of the United States, the convention for the creation of an international institute of agriculture. I also inclose a copy of the "Pro Memoria," a which I handed Count Guicciardini, the minister for foreign affairs, stating that our Government adheres to the convention subject to the advice and consent of the Senate and to the enactment of legislation by Congress to give the convention effect in so far as concerns the United States. In this connection I have the honor to inclose a printed document " which I have to-day received from the Marquis Cappelli, one of the Italian delegates at the agricultural conference last year, which speaks for itself. I have, etc., HENRY WHITE. The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador White. No. 109.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, July 11, 1906. SIR: I transmit in the pouch with this, for deposit with the Italian Government, the President's ratification of the convention signed at Rome on June 7, 1905, providing for the creation of an international institute of agriculture. You will inform the department of the date of the deposit. The department would be pleased to be informed also of the names of the other governments which have deposited their ratifications. It is presumed that the Italian Government will, in due time, furnish to each of the signatory governments a proces-verbal of ratification. The deficiency appropriation act, approved June 30, 1906, contains the following provision: For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, four thousand eight hundred dollars; for the salary of one member of the permanent committee, and for the actual and necessary traveling expenses of delegates to be appointed to the grand assembly of the institute of agriculture, eight thousand dollars. In all, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, the said amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. In pursuance of the authority thus conferred, Mr. David Lubin, of Sacramento, Cal., has been selected to represent this Government on the permanent committee, it being understood that he is willing to serve without salary. The appointment of delegates to the general assembly of the institute will be considered in due time. In transmitting to the minister for foreign affairs the President's instrument of ratification you will inform him of the selection of Mr. Lubin, and say that the Government of the United States elects, under Article X of the convention, to be classed in the first group of a Not printed. |