No. 13.
Mr. Adams
to Mr. Frelinghuysen
Legation of
the United States,
La
Paz, February 27, 1882. (Received
April 17.)
No. 92.]
Sir: I have the honor to report that I have carried
out the instructions contained in dispatches Nos. 49 and 51 in relation to
the proposed Congress at Washington, and submit the correspondence which has
taken place between the minister of foreign relations of Bolivia and myself
upon the subject.
There can be no doubt that the invitation tendered will be formally accepted
by Bolivia in good time.
These instructions, although dated in November last, did not reach me until
February 1, as formerly reported through Mr. Trescot, and then with the
request to delay the invitation until further notice from him. In his letter
of January 30, however, received by me February 14, Mr. Trescot withdraws
his request for delay and suggests that the invitation be now tendered.
These circumstances I beg to submit as an excuse why the instructions were
not complied with sooner. I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No 92.]
Mr. Adams to Señor
Zilveti
Legation of the United States,
La Paz, February 16,
1882.
Sir: Referring to our interview of yesterday,
during which i had the honor to acquaint your excellency, verbally, with
the contents of a dispatch received by me from my government and with
the instructions therein contained, i have now the pleasure to transmit
a true copy of the said dispatch and have the distinguished honor,
formally and officially, and in the name of the President of the United
States, to tender his invitation through you to his excellency the
President of Bolivia to send two commissioners provided with full powers
to an American Peace Congress, to be held in the city of Washington on
the 22d day of November, 1882, for the purpose of deliberating and
counseling with the commissioners of all other independent countries of
America, who have likewise been invited, upon such matters as you will
please find set forth by the Secretary of State of the United States in
the inclosed dispatch, and which no words of mine could more fully
elucidate.
I shall be gratified to be informed as soon as it may be convenient that
after due consideration this invitation has been accepted by his
excellency the President of Bolivia in the same spirit as it has been
tendered, and I may be permitted to predict that, by means of this
congress, the bonds of union and amity between the different American
countries cannot fail to be augmented and firmly secured.
I take, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
92.—Translation.]
Señor Zilveti to
Mr. Adams
Ministry of Foreign Relations of Bolivia,
La Paz, February 24, 1882.
Sir: On the 18th instant i had the honor to
receive your excellency’s note of the 16th. with which you were kind
enough to transmit a copy of a dispatch from the
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Department of State of the United States to the
legation which your excellency so worthily occupies, intended to invite
the Government of Bolivia to an American Congress which shall meet at
Washington on the 22d of November of this year.
Consequently, your excellency has been pleased to invite my government
officially to send its representatives to said congress, which is called
to deliberate upon matters affecting the future peace and prosperity of
all the nations of the continent.
This very important dispatch received from your excellency will be
brought to the knowledge of my government, and I am sure it will be
appreciated as it deserves, for the high ends which this government has
in view to the benefit of America and the stability of its governments,
as well as for the like high propositions with which the most excellent
government of the United States initiates the meeting of the congress at
Washington.
It shall be very agreeable to me to transmit to your excellency the reply
of the Government of Bolivia. Meanwhile, &c.,
