work them on their sugar plantation on the Redo peninsula, while others are being used in convict gangs in public improvements for Sonora. The government is disposed to act fairly by those who will become peaceable colonists and is giving them farming implements, animals, and poultry in Sinaloa. Those who will not be colonized are sent to Yucatan, where the rigors of the climate frequently end their lives. DISINFECTION OF VESSELS IN MEXICO BY UNITED STATES MEDICAL OFFICERS. No. 130.] The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State. [Translation.] EMBASSY OF MEXICO TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MOST EXCELLENT SIR: Pursuant to special instructions from my government, that are set forth in the copy inclosed with this note, which will acquaint you with all the particulars of the matter therein dealt with, I have the honor to apply to you with a request that the proper measures be taken in the case by the Government of the United States and that you may be pleased to advise me of whatever decision may be reached, so that I may in turn report to the Government of Mexico. Accept, etc., M. DE AZPIROZ. [Inclosure. Translation.] DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, The secretary of government, in an official letter numbered 6814, of the 26th of September last, makes the following statement: "The chairman of the superior board of health writes the following to this department under date of the 22d instant: "At the meeting held yesterday by this board an opinion of the counsel member of the corporation, here quoted, was approved: The counsel of the board has acquainted himself with the case that occurred at Progreso on the 13th day of July last in connection with the disinfection of the English steamer Atheniana by Dr. J. F. Harrison, a physician in the sanitary federal service, effected under such conditions that 80 bales of henequen were set on fire. By direction of the chairman of the board an inquiry was instituted, from which it appears that Mr. Harrison does, in the character above described, disinfect vessels clearing from Progreso for American ports, and while the said gentleman asserts that he only disinfects vessels when requested by the agents or masters, as there may be truth in the common report that unless disinfected by the said American physician vessels are not admitted into ports of the United States, the undersigned believes that the department of foreign relations should be fully apprised of the incident and send it a copy of the investigation conducted by the sanitary delegate to the end that such measures as may be appropriate be, if necessary, taken through the diplomatic channel.” This department has examined the case in the light of the fact that the Mexican Government never intended to admit American physicians into the national territory in an official capacity. This was made quite clear by the last quarantine decreed by the government of the State of Texas against Mexico on account of the yellow fever, and again when the American Government asked permission to have the disinfecting barge Sanator stationed in Vera Cruz for the disinfection of vessels clearing from that port for the United States. On that occasion the permission was refused because the said port possessed facilities for every kind of disinfection and because the Second International American Conference had declared that all matters pertaining to international sanitary police remained subject to the jurisdiction of each government within its own territory. Lastly, when Mr. Barlow, then consul-general of the United States at Mexico City, claimed that Doctor Cofer should be recognized in the federal district as the physician whose duty it was to issue bills of health to persons intending to visit the United States, Mr. Barlow could not carry his points and confined himself to issuing the said certificates personally, and instructed the consuls under his jurisdiction to do like wise. In the issuance of such certificates Mr. Barlow was assisted by two physicians who had no official character. In view of the foregoing, I have the honor to communicate to you the above-quoted official dispatches in order that you bring the matter to the knowledge of the Department of State in the light of the precedents in the case to the end that appropriate measures be taken in the matter herein referred to. The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé. No. 594.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, April 3, 1905. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Azpiroz's note No. 130, of the 11th ultimo, with one inclosure, from which it appears that the Mexican Government is not disposed to permit Dr. J. F. Harrison, an inspector of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, stationed at Progreso, Mexico, to make official disinfection of vessels leaving that port for the United States. In reply I have the honor to inform you that copies of the ambassador's note and of its inclosure have been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for the information of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Accept, etc., ALVEY A. Adee. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CERTAIN AMERICAN POWERS FOR THE ARBITRATION OF PECUNIARY CLAIMS. Signed at Mexico, January 30, 1902. Ratification advised by the Senate, January 11, 1905. Ratified by the President of the United States, January 28, 1905. Ratification deposited with the Mexican Government, February 10, 1905. Proclaimed March 24, 1905. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Treaty of Arbitration for pecuniary claims between the United States of America and the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at the City of Mexico on the 30th day of January, 1902, the original of which Treaty in the English language, is word for word as follows: Treaty of Arbitration for Pecuniary Claims. Their Excellencies the Presidents of the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chili, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, the United States of America, Guatemala, Hayti, Honduras, the United Mexican States, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, Desiring that their respective countries should be represented at the Second International American Conference, sent thereto duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions, conventions and treaties that they might deem convenient for the interests of America, the following Delegates: For the Argentine Republic. Their Excellencies Antonio Bermejo, Martín García Mérou, Lorenzo Anadon. For Bolivia.-His Excellency Fernando E. Guachalla. For Colombia.-Their Excellencies Carlos Martinez Silva, General Rafael Reyes. For Costa Rica.-His Excellency Joaquin Bernardo Calvo. For Chili. Their Excellencies Alberto Blest Gana, Emilio Bello Codecido, Joaquin Walker Martinez, Augusto Matte. For the Dominican Republic. Their Excellencies Federico Henriquez y Carvajal, Luis Felipe Carbo, Quintin Gutierrez. For Ecuador. His Excellency Luis Felipe Carbo. For El Salvador. Their Excellencies Francisco A. Reyes, Baltasar Estupinián. For the United States of America. Their Excellencies Henry G. Davis, William I. Buchanan, Charles M. Pepper, Volney W. Foster, John Barrett. For Guatemala.-Their Excellencies Antonio Lazo Arriaga, Colonel Francisco Orla. For Hayti.-His Excellency J. N. Léger. For Honduras.-Their Excellencies José Leonard, Fausto Dávila. For Mexico. Their Excellencies Genaro Raigosa, Joaquín D. Casasús, José López Portillo y Rojas, Emilio Pardo, jr., Pablo Macedo, Alfredo Chavero, Francisco L. de la Barra, Manuel Sánchez Mármol, Rosendo Pineda. For Nicaragua.-His Excellency Luis F. Corea, His Excellency Fausto Davila. For Paraguay.-His Excellency Cecilio Baez. For Peru. Their Excellencies Isaac Alzamora, Alberto Elmore, Manuel Alvarez Calderón. For Uruguay.-His Excellency Juan Cuestas; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and found them to be in due and proper form, excepting those presented by the representatives of Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Nicaragua and Paraguay, who act "ad referendum," have agreed, to celebrate a Treaty to submit to the decision of arbitrators Pecuniary Claims for damages that have not been settled by diplomatic channel, in the following terms: ART. 1. The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens, and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels and when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expenses of arbitration. ART. 2. By virtue of the faculty recognized by Article 26 of the Convention of The Hague for the pacific settlement of international disputes, the High Contracting Parties agree to submit to the decision of the permanent Court of Arbitration established by said Convention, all controversies which are the subject matter of the present Treaty, unless both Parties should prefer that a special jurisdiction be organized, according to Article 21 of the Convention referred to. If a case is submitted to the Permanent Court of The Hague, the High Contracting Parties accept the provisions of the said Convention, in so far as they relate to the organization of the Arbitral Tribunal, and with regard to the procedure to be followed, and to the obligation to comply with the sentence. ART. 3. The present Treaty shall not be obligatory except upon those States which have subscribed to the Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes, signed at The Hague, July 29, 1899, and upon those which ratify the Protocol unanimously adopted by the Republics represented in the Second International Conference of American States, for their adherence to the Conventions signed at The Hague, July 29, 1899. ART. 4. If, for any cause whatever, the Permanent Court of The Hague should not be opened to one or more of the High Contracting Parties, they obligate themselves to stipulate, in a special Treaty, the rules under which the Tribunal shall be established, as well as its form of procedure, which shall take cognizance of the questions referred to in article 1. of the present Treaty. ART. 5. This Treaty shall be binding on the States ratifying it, from the date on which five signatory governments have ratified the same, and shall be in force for five years. The ratification of this Treaty by the signatory States shall be transmitted to the Government of the United States of Mexico, which shall notify the other Governments of the ratifications it may receive. In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries and Delegates also sign the present Treaty, and affix the seal of the Second International American Conference. Made in the City of Mexico the thirtieth day of January nineteen hundred and two, in three copies, written in Spanish, English and French, respectively, which shall be deposited with the Secretary of Foreign Relations of the Mexican United States, so that certified copies thereof be made, in order to send them through the diplomatic channel to the signatory States. For the Argentine Republic, ANTONIO BERMEJO. LORENZO ANADON. For Bolivia, FERNANDO E. GUACHALLA. For Colombia, RAFAEL REYES. For Hayti, J. N. LÉGER. F. DÁVILA. For Mexico, G. RAIGOSA. JOAQUIN D. CASASUS. E. PARDO, jr. JOSÉ LOPEZ PORTILLO Y ROJAS. PABLO MACEDO. F. L. DE LA BARRA. ALFREDO CHAVERO. M. SANCHEZ MARMOL. For Nicaragua, F. DÁVILA. For Paraguay, CECILIO BAEZ. For Peru, MANUEL ALVAREZ CALDERON. ALBERTO ELMORE. For Uruguay, JUAN CUESTAS. And whereas it is provided in its Article V that the said Treaty shall be binding on the States ratifying it from the date on which five signatory governments have ratified the same, and shall be enforced for five years; And whereas, the said Treaty was ratified by the United States of America on January 28, 1905; by Guatemala on April 25, 1902; by El Salvador on May 19, 1902; by Peru on October 29, 1903, and by Honduras on July 6, 1904; Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and twenty-ninth. [SEAL] By the President: ALVEY A. ADEE Acting Secretary of State. THEODORE ROOSEVELT NOTICE OF RATIFICATION BY MEXICO. [Translation.] No. 174.] EMBASSY OF MEXICO TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HONORABLE SIR: I have the honor to inform you, for all pertinent purposes, that on the 1st day of the current month, as the department of foreign relations of Mexico has been pleased to advise me, the Government of the Republic ratified the treaty relative to claims for pecuniary damages and injuries that was signed in the said city of Mexico on the 30th day of January, 1902, by the delegates to the Second International American Conference. Accept, honorable sir, the renewed assurances of my very high consideration. Hon. FRANCIS B. LOOMIS, F. GAMBOA, Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim. Acting Secretary of State. |