CORRESPONDENCE. CIRCULARS. JAMESTOWN CELEBRATION. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 7, 1905. To the diplomatic officers of the United States. GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith copies of the proclamation issued by the President on the 29th of March last, inviting, in the name of the Government and people of the United States, the Government to which you are accredited to take part in an international naval, marine, and military celebration in 1907, at and near the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia, in commemoration of the birth of the American nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people on the American continent, made at Jamestown, Va., on the 13th day of May, 1607. I also inclose copies of the act of Congress in pursuance of which the proclamation was issued, by which you will see that the sum of $125.000 is appropriated for the entertainment of foreign naval and military representatives. While the event to be celebrated was one with which the people of England alone were connected, the President, the Congress, and the people of the United States are not unmindful of the recognition due to the courageous and hardy navigators and colonists of other nations who laid the foundations of permanent settlements in America; and it is most fitting that the act of Congress and the proclamation of the President should include all the nations of the earth who have yielded so many of their sons to make prosperity the destiny of the United States. In communicating the invitation you will make known the great pleasure with which the President will learn of the intention of the Government to which you are accredited to participate in the celebration by the sending of its naval vessels and such representation of its military organizations as it may deem proper. Contemporaneously with this celebration authorized by the Government of the United States there will be held an international exposition on the shores of the great harbor under the auspices of the Jamestown Exposition Company, the interests of which I shall be pleased to have you promote by lending your assistance in all proper 59605 FR 1906-1 ways to its duly accredited representatives who may present themselves to you. I inclose some literature which the company has supplied for your information. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, Inclosures as stated. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. ELIHU ROOT. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, October 9, 1906. To the diplomatic officers of the United States in Mexico and Central and South America, and in Cuba, Haiti, and Dominican Republic. GENTLEMEN: The department's circular instruction of November 7, 1905, to the diplomatic officers transmitted an invitation in the name of the Government and people of the United States to the nations of the world to participate in an international naval, marine, and military celebration in 1907 at Hampton Roads in commemoration of the birth of the American nation, and at the same time instructed the diplomatic officers to extend all proper assistance to the accredited agents of the international exposition which is to be held at Jamestown contemporaneously with the naval and military celebration. The management of this exposition has sent to the department an invitation to the Government to which you are respectively accredited to be represented thereat by suitable exhibts. An English translation is herewith inclosed for your files. In compliance with the wishes of the exposition company, you may in its behalf deliver the invitation to His Excellency the President in the manner most agreeable to him. In doing so you will state that while, unlike the first-mentioned celebration, the exposition is a private enterprise and will not be under the auspices of the United States, Congress has recognized its importance by appropriating a large sum for this Government's participation therein, and that an exhibit at the exposition of the industries and natural resources of the country of your residence would cause great pleasure to this Government as tending still further to promote the valued relations of friendship and commerce between the two countries. I am, sir, your obedient servant, ELIHU ROOT. NOTE. To be continued in Foreign Relations, 1907. ADMISSION OF OFFICERS OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS TO MILITARY SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 8, 1906. To the diplomatic representatives of the United States to Mexico and the Central and South American States. GENTLEMEN: I have to inform you that the question whether it might be advisable for this Government to extend facilities for mili tary training to officers in the military service of the Governments of Mexico and the Central and South American States has been favorably considered by the War Department, which informs me that, although it is impossible without special legislation to provide quarters and subsistence, it will be pleased to furnish instruction to six foreign officers at the Infantry and Cavalry School, at Fort Leavenworth; to four at the School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery, at Fort Riley; and to four at the Army Medical School, at Washington, D. C. You will communicate these facts to the Government to which you are accredited, and extend to it the invitation of this Government to avail itself of the opportunity thus afforded, stating that a limited number of officers can be furnished facilities for theoretical and practical training as indicated above. As the number of officers to whom these advantages can be offered is small, it may be well to intimate discreetly that the governments which first decide to avail themselves of them will be the ones most likely to secure them. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, ELIHU ROOT. EXEQUATURS FOR PANAMAN CONSULS. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 2, 1906. To the diplomatic officers of the United States. GENTLEMEN: The department is informed through the American minister at Panama of the desire of the Government of Panama that in countries where there is a Panaman consul-general that official shall apply to the government concerned for the issuance of exequaturs to consuls of Panama and that in countries where there is no Panaman consul-general the consuls of Panama shall apply to the American minister to obtain their exequaturs without notification to the Department of State at Washington. You will be governed accordingly. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, ROBERT BACON, Acting Secretary. LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: In pursuance of the joint resolution of Congress approved March 3, 1905, you are instructed to convey in the President's name the expression of the grateful appreciation of the Government and people of the United States for the invaluable aid contributed by the Government and people of to the success of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 and for their friendly participation in the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana, one of the most important international events in the history of the United States. I am, sir, your obedient servant, ELIHU ROOT. (Sent to American representatives in all countries which participated in the Exposition.) CITIZENSHIP. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, To the diplomatic and certain consular officers of the United States. GENTLEMEN: I append hereto a copy of an order of the Department of State, dated July 3, constituting James B. Scott, esq., Solicitor for the Department of State, David Jayne Hill, esq., this Government's minister to the Netherlands, and Gaillard Hunt, esq., Chief of the Passport Bureau of this department, a board to inquire into the laws and practice regarding citizenship, expatriation, and protection abroad, and to report thereon before December next. The board desires to ascertain: 1. The laws relating to citizenship in the country in which you reside. 2. The means by which citizenship in that country is lost. 3. Whether or not the law of that country authorizes the renunciation of citizenship, and if so, the conditions for the reacquisition of the citizenship thus renounced. 4. Whether, and how far, residence in foreign parts may affect the citizenship of origin. 5. And finally, the practice of the Government to which you are accredited in protecting its citizens permanently residing in other countries. The law relating to naturalization and the acquisition of citizenship is also desired. In answering this instruction you may furnish publications and appropriate references to them, together with transcripts from the laws and other recognized authorities. You will reply to this instruction at the earliest practicable moment." I am, etc., [Appendix.] ROBERT BACON, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, It is ordered that a board be convened at the Department of State in the city of Washington on the 9th of July, 1906, to inquire into the laws and practice regarding citizenship of the United States, expatriation, and protection abroad and to report recommendations for legislation to be laid before Congress at the next session, pursuant to the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives contained in the report of the committee dated June 6, 1906, on Senate resolution 30, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session. All the replies to this circular have been published and printed in H. Doc. 326, 59th Cong., 2d sess., pp. 271-538. |