Index

A.

  • Administration of:
    • affairs of Korea, by Japan 1022
    • Chinese customs affairs 280
    • estates in Peru by American consuls 1236
  • Admission of officers of American Republics to United States military schools 2
  • Admission to United States of Chinese child adopted by American citizen, denied 288
  • Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, death of 1093
  • Adopted Chinese child, status of 288
  • Africa, conference and convention revising rules relative to spirituous liquors in 52
  • Agreements. See Treaties.
  • Agricultural enterprises in Ecuador, decree encouraging 627
  • Agriculture, International Institute of, established 942
  • Alaskan boundary, treaty with Great Britain for marking, etc 801
  • Alcorta, Don José Figueroa:
    • becomes President of Argentine Republic 12
    • inaugural address to Argentine Congress 12
  • Alfonso XII, King of Spain, marriage of 1343
  • Algeciras conference on reforms in Morocco 1470
  • Aliens in Portuguese colonies, regulations as to residence, etc., of 1244
  • Alsace, Germany, application of naturalization treaties to 648
  • Amelioration of:
    • peasant class in Russia 1267
    • wounded of armies in the field, Geneva (Red Cross) convention for 1559
  • American:
    • institutions in Turkey, equal treatment for 1372
    • widow of foreign subject, status of 1370
  • American citizen, status of divorced insane wife of an 1364
  • American citizens:
    • consular administration of estates of, in Peru 1236
    • dying in Mexico, removal of dead bodies of 1114
    • exemption from paying church taxes in Germany by 658
    • in Persia, acknowledgment of services of Great Britain to 1214
    • military tax in Servia on naturalized, of Servian birth 1338
    • of Syrian origin, licenses in Haiti to 897
    • passports of naturalized, of Swedish birth 1360
    • protection of trade-marks registration in Cuba by 494
    • resident in Russia, passports to 1286
    • rights of, in disputed Central American territory 1184, 1201
  • American concessions in Dominican Republic 557
  • American fishing vessels, seizure by Mexico on high seas 1094
  • American goods, boycott at Singapore of 803
  • American laborers employed on plantations in Guatemala, impressment of 824
  • American property in Port Arthur and Dalny 1074
  • American Republics:
    • admission to United States schools, of officers of 2
    • invited to make exhibits at Jamestown Exposition 2
  • American Republics, Third International Conference of:
    • address of welcome to Mr. Root by the President 126
      • response of Mr. Root 127
    • instructions to American delegates 1565, 1566
      • by President Roosevelt to delegates to second conference at Mexico City 1572
    • report of American delegates 1576
    • conventions adopted by; establishing status of naturalized citizens returning to country of origin 1594
      • settlement of pecuniary claims 1595
      • protection of patents, trade-marks, copyrights, etc 1596
      • for international law commission 1601
      • on public debts 1609
      • liberal professions 1609
      • commercial relations 1610
      • future conferences 1611
      • development of natural resources 1612
      • sanitary police 1613
      • intercontinental railway 1614
      • coffee industry 1614
      • fluctuations in exchange 1614
    • resolutions adopted by; on arbitration 1602
      • reorganization of Bureau of American Republics 1603
      • building for Bureau of American Republics 1606
      • recommending creation of special division in department of foreign affairs 1607
      • section of commerce, customs, and customs tariffs 1608
  • American residents of Isle of Pines, alleged outrage on 510
  • Americans, insane, confined in foreign asylums 1170
  • Annapolis, Md., removal of remains of John Paul Jones to Naval Academy at 638
  • Antiforeign agitation in Mexico, alleged 1124
  • Antung, delays in opening to international trade 170
  • Appointments, American consular officers not allowed foreign 534
  • Arbitration of pecuniary claims, countries ratifying convention for 1115
  • Arbitration, resolution of Pan-American Conference recommending adherence to principles of international 1602
  • Arbitration treaties:
    • between Denmark and Italy 528
    • between Denmark and Netherlands 530
    • between Netherlands and Denmark ratified 1178
    • between Netherlands and Portugal ratified 1178
    • between Spain and Honduras 1353
  • Argentine Republic:
    • Alcorta, Don José Figueroa, assumes presidency.
    • convention with Spain, dispensing with authentication of signatures of letters rogatory 14
    • death of President Quintana 11
    • inaugural address of President Alcorta 12
    • laws regulating practice of professions, diplomas of United States colleges to Argentine students, recognized 11
    • visit of Secretary Root 19
  • Armenians, intervention by United States with Turkey on behalf of the 1417
  • Armies in the field, Geneva (Red Cross) convention for amelioration of wounded of 1559
  • Army schools, admission of officers of American Republics to United States 2
  • Arrangements. See Treaties.
  • Assassination:
    • attempted, of President Reyes of Colombia 410
    • attempted, on life of King and Queen of Spain 1348
    • of minister of foreign affairs of Nicaragua 1183
  • Attempt on life of King and Queen of Spain 1348
  • Austria-Hungary:
    • commercial treaty between Italy and 910
    • customs tariff and commercial treaties concluded with Germany, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Servia, and Switzerland, by 46
    • franchise reform in 48
    • Hungarian Parliament dissolved 47
    • restrictions against importation of beef from non-European countries into 43
    • transportation of emigrants from Hungary 49
  • Authentication of:
    • letters of attorney in Turkey 1406
    • letters rogatory, convention between Argentine Republic and Spain, dispensing with 14
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B.

  • Baccelli, Prof. Guido, function in Italy in honor of 910
  • Beef, restrictions against importation of, from non-European countries into Austria 43
  • Belgium:
    • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria and 46
    • El Oriente Tobacco Company, claim of 57
    • emigration agents of South Carolina In 62
    • exclusion of Louis Wythouck from United States 61
    • international arrangement for unifying formulas for heroic medicines 79
    • international maritime conference relative to collisions and salvage at sea 72
    • Kongo Free State, investigation of affairs in 88
      • reforms in 101
      • sale of lands to Foreign Christian Missionary Society refused 99
    • spirituous liquors in Africa, conference and convention revising rules as to 52
    • taxation of foreign corporations in 71
  • Bible, restrictions upon the sale of, in Turkey 1414
  • Bolivia:
    • boundary dispute with Peru, retirement of both parties from Heath territory 106
    • commercial treaty with Peru, ratified 1220
    • invitation to Secretary Root to visit 108
    • parcel-post treaty with United States, transit of articles through Peru 107
    • religious liberty, law granting 106
  • Bond, Sir Robert, premier of Newfoundland:
    • convention negotiated with Secretary Hay (unperfected) 758
    • speeches discussing fisheries question 760, 770, 780
  • Bonds issued by Mexican Empire, status of 1125
  • Bonds of Haiti, law providing for payment of interest on 891
  • Bonds of South African Republic, nonredeemable 791
  • Boundary:
    • Alaskan, treaty with Great Britain for marking, etc 801
    • dispute between Peru and Colombia 1219
    • question between Dominican Republic and Haiti 600
  • Boycott of American goods at Singapore 803
  • Brazil:
    • annual message of the President 136
    • coffee valorization and export tax 109
    • election and inauguration of President Penna 112
    • Monroe doctrine and relations between United States and 116
    • preferential tariff for American products 113
    • visit of Secretary Root 124
  • Brent, Right Rev. C. H., Bishop of the Philippines, suggests international investigation of opium trade 361
  • Bulgaria:
    • commercial treaties concluded with Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy 140
    • commerical treaty between Germany and 655
    • reciprocal commerical agreement with United States 141
  • Bureau, International Central American, convention establishing 863
  • Bureau of American Republics:
    • resolution of Pan-American Conference on building for 1606
    • resolution of Pan-American Conference recommending section of commerce, customs, and customs statistics in 1608
    • resolution of Pan-American Conference reorganizing 1603
    • to designate, etc., of Fourth Pan-American Conference 1611
  • Burial of bodies in Turkey, conditions for removal 1405
  • Business and political conditions in Colombia 442

C.

  • Cabinet of Russia, formation of new 1336
  • Cable between Japan and Guam opened 1021
  • Cable between San Francisco and Shanghai opened 409
  • Caceres, Ramon, becomes President of Dominican Republic 548
  • Canada, extradition procedure in 805
  • Castro, Cipriano, President of Venezuela, temporary retirement of 1440
  • Cape Haitien, withdrawal of exequatur of American vice-consul at 872
  • Capture and destruction of Knight Commander by Russian cruiser 1318
  • Cattier, Felicien, extracts from treatise on administration of affairs in Kongo Free State by 89
  • Celebration of settlement of America, invitation to foreign nations to participate in 1
  • Central America: (See also Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador.)
    • convention establishing Central American Bureau at Guatemala city 863
    • convention establishing Central American Pedagogical Institute at San Jose, Costa Rica 865
    • rights of American citizens in disputed territory 1184, 1201
    • treaty of amity, etc., between Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador 857
    • war in, and mediation of United States and Mexico 834
  • Central American Bureau, convention establishing International 863
  • Certificate of origin of imports into Italy, regulations as to 908
  • Certification of goods purchased abroad for export to United States, place of 647
  • Cities, sanitation of Cuban 503
  • Citizenship:
    • expatriation and protection abroad, board to inquire into laws regarding 4
    • liability of naturalized citizens under military and expatriation laws of their native country 812
    • naturalization treaties with Germany, application to Alsace-Lorraine 648
    • of a former Porto Rican in Haiti 877
    • of Chinese child adopted by American citizen 288
    • of persons born in United States of German parents and living in Germany 655
    • of persons born in United States of naturalized parents 1179
    • status of American widow of a foreign subject 1370
    • status of divored insane wife of an American citizen 1364
  • Chang-p’u, China, riots at 324
  • Chang-te-fu, Honan, China, opened to foreign trade 204
  • Chiengmai, Siam, American missionary school at 1389
  • Chile:
    • earthquake, destruction of Valparaiso and other cities 155
    • election and inauguration of President Don Pedro Montt 145
    • visit of Secretary Root 147
  • China:
    • cable between San Francisco and Shanghai opened 409
    • Chang-te-fu, opened to foreign trade 204
    • citizenship and admission to United States of child adopted by American 288
    • copyrights, rules for protection of, under treaty, not concluded 260
    • customs service changes 280
    • floating mines in waters of 300
    • foreign settlements at open ports 290
    • Kwangtung leased territory, Japanese administration of 1050
    • Lienchou riots and resulting claims 308
    • Manchuria, opening ports of, to international trade 162
    • mining regulations 261
    • opium restrictions 352
    • opium trade, international investigation suggested of 360
    • patents, rules for protection of, under treaty, not concluded 260
    • payment of Chinese indemnity 273
    • reforms, governmental, judicial, and educational 341
    • rights of missionaries to acquire property in interior of 276
    • riots at Chang-p’u and Manchang 324
    • Shanghai mixed court, revision of rules and resulting riots 369
    • Shanghai, threatened restriction of international settlement 297
    • trade-marks in, reciprocal agreements for protection of 228
    • trade-marks regulations 234
    • treaty and additional agreement with Japan as to Manchuria 995
    • United States court for 407
  • Chi-nan-fu, Manchuria, opened as international port 152
  • Chinese in Guatemala, protection of 823
  • Chinese indemnity, payment of 273
  • Chinese students in Japanese schools 1072
  • Christian IX, King of Denmark, death of 523
  • Chronological list of governments of Uruguay 1828–1906 1429
  • Chronology of political events in Dominican Republic 572
  • Church taxes in Germany, American citizens exempted from paying 658
  • Claim of Michael J. Kouri, against Haiti for false imprisonment 871
  • Claims:
    • arbitration of pecuniary, countries ratifying convention for 1115
    • Lienchou, China, riots 308
  • Coffee industry, resolution of Pan-American Conference respecting 1614
  • Coffee, valorization and export tax in Brazil on 109
  • Collisions at sea, international maritime conference relative to salvage and 72
  • Colombia:
    • attempt on life on President Reyes 410
    • boundary dispute with Peru 1219
    • duty on flour increased 45
    • political and business conditions 442
    • relations of United States with 412
    • relations with Venezuela, good offices of United States 1438
    • visit of Secretary Root 439
  • Colonies of Portugal, regulations as to aliens in 1244
  • Commercial agreements, reciprocal:
    • between Bulgaria and United States 141
    • between Germany and United States, continued 640
    • between Spain and United States 1341
    • between Switzerland and United States 1368
  • Commercial relations, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to 1610
  • Commercial treaties:
    • between Austria and Germany, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Servia, and Switzerland 46
    • between Austria-Hungary and Italy 910
    • between Bulgaria and Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy 140
    • between France and Haiti, temporary extension of 901
    • between Germany and Bulgaria 655
    • between Peru and Bolivia, ratified 1220
    • between Roumania and Great Britain 1247
    • between Roumania and Russia 1247
    • between Spain and Switzerland 1354
    • between Sweden and Germany 1358
    • between Sweden and Russia 1359
  • Commission, International Law, convention adopted by Pan-American Conference establishing 1601
  • Compulsory collection of public debts, resolution of Pan-American Conference on 1609
  • Condition of Jews in Russia 1296
  • Conference of American Republics. (See Third Conference of American Republics.)
  • Conferences, diplomatic. (See International diplomatic conferences.) Congress, thanks of, extended to foreign governments participating in Louisiana Purchase Exposition 3
  • Consular:
    • administration of estates in Peru 1236
    • convention between United States and Netherlands of 1855, status of 1165
    • convention with Italy, notification of death of Italians in United States under 964
    • conventions between Guatemala and Italy 827
    • officers in Japan, recognition of subordinate 1065
    • officers of United States can not receive foreign appointments 534
    • Regulations—
      • place of certification of goods purchased for export 647
      • verification by consuls of invoices and declarations 648
    • seal, counterfeiting, at Palermo, Italy 934
    • service, law of April 5, 1906, reorganizing 8
    • service of Sweden, reorganized 1362
  • Consuls:
    • immunity for postal matter mailed by 1416
    • of Panama, application of American ministers for exequaturs 3
  • Consuls-general at large:
    • instructions asking recognition of 6
    • law providing for 8
  • Conventions. See Treaties.
  • Conventions and resolutions adopted by Third Pan-American Conference 1594
  • Copyright convention:
    • between Japan and United States 968
  • Copyrights:
    • international convention for protection of, adopted by Third Pan-American Conference 1596
    • regulations for protection of, in China, not concluded 260
  • Corporations, taxation in Belgium of foreign 71
  • Costa Rica:
    • convention with Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador for Central American Bureau 863
    • convention with Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador for Central American Pedagogical Institute 865
    • election of President Cleto Gonzales Viquez 1186
    • immigration law of 1186
    • rights of American citizens in disputed territory 1184
    • treaty of amity, etc., between Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, and 857
  • Counterfeiting American consular seal at Palermo, Italy 934
  • Courrieres, France, mine disaster at 639
  • Court dress of diplomatic officers on official occasions 527
  • Court for China established, United States 407
  • Crete, conditions in island of 820
  • Cuba:
    • insurrection and intervention of United States in 454
    • Isle of Pines, alleged outrage on American residents of 510
    • reciprocity treaty rates refused on foreign rice milled in United States 515
    • recognition of consul-general in Japan 1019
    • sanitation of cities 503
    • trade-mark registration, rights of American citizens 494
    • trade-marks convention with France 521
  • Customs:
    • preferential duties on American products in Brazil 113
    • revenue of Dominican Republic, control by United States of 559
    • service in China, changes of 280
    • tariffs and commercial treaties, between Austria and Germany, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Servia, and Switzerland 46
  • Customs duties:
    • in Turkey, proposed increase of 1412
    • law in Haiti 878
    • law of Japan 994

D.

  • Dalny:
    • delays in opening to international trade 170
    • opening of port of 1059
    • property of Americans in 1074
  • Death of Italians in United States, notification to Italian consuls of 964
  • Debt, imprisonment for, in Holland 1173
  • Debts, public, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to collection of 1609
  • Degree of doctor of laws conferred on the King of Italy by the University of Pennsylvania 962
  • Denmark:
    • agreement with, for protection of industrial designs or models 533
    • arbitration treaty with Italy 528
      • with Netherlands 530
    • consular officers of United States may not accept appointment from 534
    • death of King Christian IX 523
    • diplomatic uniforms 527
    • emigration agents of South Carolina in 67
    • extradition treaty with United States, supplementary 531
    • Frederick VIII proclaimed King 523
  • Dentistry practice of, in Japan 1068
  • Depredations of Yaqui Indians in Mexico 1134
  • Derelict mines off Chinese coasts 300
  • Desertion of seamen from foreign vessels in the Philippines, arrest, etc 941
  • Destruction in United States of tobacco owned by Italy 949
  • Diphtheria epidemic, Magdalena, Mexico, assistance of United States squadron in 1123
  • Diplomas of United States colleges to Argentine students, recognized by Argentine Republic 11
  • Diplomatic and consular service of Sweden reorganized 1362
  • Diplomatic conferences. See International diplomatic conferences.
  • Diplomatic intervention in contentious matters in Japan, restricted 1071
  • Diplomatic officers:
    • immunities of retiring 1448
    • recognition of consuls-general at large directed by 6
  • Diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan resumed 1087, 1335
  • Diplomatic uniforms, court dress at court functions 527
  • Disaster in mines, Courrieres, France 639
  • Disturbances in Russia, political, etc 1274
  • Dominican Republic:
    • American concessions 557
    • boundary question with Haiti 600
    • control of customs revenue of, by United States 559
    • enforcement of sugar-production tax 609
    • legislation of Congress, 1906 564
    • message of President Caceres 568
    • political events in, chronology of 572
    • resignation of President Morales 548
    • revolutionary disturbances in 536
    • Vice-President Caceres assumes Presidency 548
    • withdrawal of exequatur of Portuguese consul at Macoris 570
  • Douma (Parliament) of Russia:
  • Duties in Turkey, proposed increase of customs 1412
  • Duties on American products in Brazil, preferential 113
  • Duty on flour in Colombia increased 450

E.

  • Earthquake:
  • Ecuador:
    • decree encouraging industrial, agricultural, and other industries 627
    • railway building in 629
    • revolution in 623
    • sanitation of Guayaquil 627
    • visit of Secretary Root 624
  • Educational reforms in China 341
  • El Oriente Tobacco Company, claim to money captured from Filipino insurgents 57
  • Embassies, mutual raising of the legations of United States and Japan to 1005
  • Emigrants from Hungary, transportation of 49
  • Emigration agents of South Carolina:
    • in Europe 62
    • status of emigrants 70
  • Emigration of Montenegrins to United States 1152
  • England. (See Great Britain.)
  • Epidemic of diphtheria in Magdalena, Mexico, assistance of United States squadron 1123
  • Estates in Holland, fictitious 1171
  • Estates in Peru, consular administration of 1236
  • Exchange, fluctuations in, resolution of Pan-American Conference recommending study of 1614
  • Exchange of prisoners of war:
    • between Japan and Russia 1086
    • by Russia 1335
  • Exclusion of alleged misbranded olive oil 907
  • Executive orders of the President of United States:
    • certification of goods purchased for export, place of 647
    • verification by consuls of invoices and declarations 648
  • Exemption of steamship inspection, reciprocal arrangement with Japan 990
  • Exequatur of:
    • American vice-consul at Cape Haitien withdrawn 872
    • Portuguese consul at Macoris, withdrawal of 570
  • Exequaturs for consuls-general at large 6
  • Exequaturs of Panaman consuls through American ministers abroad 3
  • Exhibit of Haitian products in Haitian consulates 903
  • Expatriation, recognition by Greece of 812
  • Expatriation, etc., board to inquire into laws regarding 4
  • Export duty on coffee in Brazil 109
  • Exportation of purchased goods to United States, place of certification 647
  • Exposition:
    • Jamestown, exhibits invited from American Republics 2
    • Louisiana Purchase, thanks to governments participating in 3
  • Expulsion of foreigners from Haiti 869
  • Extradition:
    • imprisonment for a nonextraditable offense of a fugitive surrendered by Great Britain 784
    • kidnaping of Antonio Martinez 1121
    • of Paul Stensland from Morocco 1161
    • procedure in Canada 805
    • treaties—
      • between Denmark and United States, supplementary 531
      • between Greece and Italy, change in 815
      • between Italy and Greece, amendment to 916
      • between Japan and United States, supplementary 1069
      • between Netherlands and Greece, ratified 1178

F.

  • Fallières, Armand, elected President of the French Republic 631
  • False imprisonment, claim against Haiti for 871
  • Famine in Japan 999
  • Fez, Morocco, mission of minister Gummeré to 1153
  • Fictitious estates in Holland 1171
  • Filipino insurgents, claim of El Oriente Company for funds taken by 57
  • Firearms, prohibition of importation of, into Russia 1316
  • Fisheries, Newfoundland 661
  • Fishing vessels, American, seized by Mexico 1094
  • Flag of the United States, right of American owners of vessels purchased abroad to fly the 1157
  • Floating mines in Gulf of Pechili 300
  • Flour, duty on, increased by Colombia 450
  • Fluctuations in exchange, resolution of Pan-American Conference recommending study of 1614
  • Food-inspection law of United States, action of association of British grocers 798
  • Food products, prohibition of artificially colored 965
  • Foreign affairs, resolution of Pan-American Conference recommending establishment of special division in offices of 1607
  • Foreign appointments, American consular officers not permitted 534
  • Foreign Christian Missionary Society, of Cincinnati, refusal of sale of lands in Kongo, to 99
  • Foreign governments, thanks of Congress to, participating in Louisiana Purchase Exposition 3
  • Foreign policy of United States with South America, letter by Emilio Mitre, of Argentina 33
  • Foreign settlements at open ports in China and Manchuria 290
  • Foreign vessels in the Philippines, arrest, etc., of seamen deserting 941
  • Foreigners, expulsion from Haiti of 869
  • Formosa, earthquake in 1063
  • France:
    • commercial treaty concluded with Bulgaria 140
      • with Haiti extended temporarily 901
    • election of Armand Fallières as President of the Republic 631
    • Franklin celebration in Paris 632
    • mines disaster at Courrieres 639
    • presentation of Franklin gold medal to Government of 633
    • proposal for regulating use of submarine mines 304
    • protection of French interests in Venezuela and Venezuelan interests in 1432
    • removal of remains of Admiral John Paul Jones 636
    • trade-marks convention with Cuba 521
  • Franchise reform in Austria 48
  • Franklin celebration in Paris 632
  • Franklin medal, presentation to France by United States, of 633
  • Frederick VIII proclaimed King of Denmark 523

G.

  • General act of international conference at Algeciras, on reforms in Morocco 1495
  • Geneva convention of 1864, alleged violations by Russia, of 990, 1334
  • Geneva (Red Cross) convention of 1906 1528
  • Germany:
    • citizenship of persons born in United States of German parents and living in Germany 655
    • commercial treaty with Bulgaria 140, 655
    • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria 46
    • exemption from paying church taxes by American citizens in 658
    • military service case of Maurice Kahn 648
    • naturalization treaties with United States, application to Alsace and Loraine 648
    • reciprocity agreement with United States continued 640
    • restriction on importation of potatoes not to include sweet potatoes 654
    • trade-marks in China, protection of 228
  • Gonzales Viquez, Señor Cleto, elected President of Costa Rica 1186
  • Good offices of United States, relations between Venezuela and Colombia 1438
  • Goods purchased abroad for export to United States, place of certification 647
  • Governmental reforms in China 341
  • Governments of Uruguay, chronological list of 1828–1906 1429
  • Great Britain:
    • acknowledgement for services rendered to American citizens in Persia by 1214
    • Alaskan boundary treaty 801
    • boycott of American goods at Singapore 803
    • bonds of South African Republic 791
    • commercial treaty with Bulgaria 140
      • with Roumania 1247
    • extradition procedure in Canada 805
    • food-inspection law of United States 798
    • imprisonment for nonextraditable offense of a fugitive surrendered by 784
    • naturalization treaty between Haiti and 895
    • Newfoundland fishery question 661
      • correspondence respecting 707
    • opium trade, international investigation suggested of 360
    • treaties with Nicaragua as to Mosquito territory and free port of San Juan del Norte 1181
  • Greece:
    • change in extradition treaty with Italy 815
    • conditions in island of Crete 820
    • extradition treaty with Italy, amendment to 916
      • with Netherlands ratified 1178
    • immigration of subjects of, into United States 808
    • liability of naturalized citizens under military and expatriation laws of their native country 812
    • Olympic games in 813
    • relations between Roumania and 818, 1246
    • visit of American squadron to Piraeus 815
  • Guam, opening of cable between Japan and 1021
  • Guatemala:
    • consular convention between Italy and 827
    • convention with Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador for Central American Bureau 863
    • convention with Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador for Central American Pedagogical Institute 865
    • death of minister to United States from 866
    • impressment of laborers employed on American plantations in 824
    • protection of Chinese in 823
    • treaty of amity, etc., between Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and 857
    • treaty of peace concluded 851
    • war between Honduras and Salvador and 834
      • mediation of United States and Mexico 837
  • Guatemala City, convention establishing International Central American Bureau at 863
  • Guayaquil, Ecuador, sanitation of 627

H.

  • Haakon VII, coronation of, as King of Norway 1189
  • Hague convention of 1899, alleged violations by Russia, of 990, 1334
  • Hague, The, second peace conference at 1625
  • Haiti:
    • boundary question with Dominican Republic 600
    • citizenship of Porto Ricans 877
    • claim of Michael J. Kouri 871
    • commercial treaty with France, extended temporarily 901
    • exhibit of Haitian products in Haitian consulates 903
    • expulsion of foreigners from 869
    • interest on bonds, law providing for payment of 891
    • licenses to American citizens of Syrian origin in 897
    • Mole St. Nicholas opened to foreign commerce 893
    • naturalization treaty between Great Britain and 895
    • Pauléus Sannon appointed secretary for foreign affairs 878
    • petroleum refinery, law establishing 904
    • postage charges in 894
    • tariff law, and customs duties in 878
    • withdrawal of exequatur of vice-consul at Cape Haitien 872
  • Harsh treatment of Italian laborers by Spruce Pine Carolina Company 919
  • Hay-Bond treaty of 1902, Newfoundland fisheries question 758
  • Heath River, South America, dispute between Bolivia and Peru as to territorial ownership 106
  • Heroic medicines, international arrangement for unifying formulas for 79
  • High seas, seizure of vessels on 1094
  • Holland. See Netherlands.
  • Honduras:
    • arbitration treaty with Spain 1353
    • convention with Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Salvador for Central American Bureau 863
    • convention with Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Salvador for Central American Pedagogical Institute 865
    • treaty of amity, etc., between Costa Rica, Guatemala, Salvador, and 857
    • war between Guatemala and 834
      • mediation of United States and Mexico 837
      • treaty of peace concluded 851
  • Hungarian Parliament dissolved 47
  • Hungary. See Austria-Hungary.

I.

  • Immigrants’ expenses in Liberia, resolution as to 1090
  • Immigration encouraged by Peru 1221
  • Immigration law of Costa Rica 1186
  • Immigration of Greeks into United States 808
  • Immunities of retiring diplomatic officer 1448
  • Immunity for postal matter mailed by a consul 1416
  • Importation of firearms prohibited in Russia 1316
  • Importations into Italy, regulations as to certification of origin of 908
  • Impressment of American laborers employed on plantations in Guatemala 824
  • Imprisonment for a nonextraditable offense of a fugitive surrendered by Great Britain 784
  • Imprisonment for debt in The Netherlands 1173
  • Indemnity, Chinese, payment of 273
  • Industrial designs or models, agreement with Denmark for protection of 533
  • Industries in Ecuador, decree encouraging agricultural, etc 627
  • Infants, passports may be granted for, of naturalized citizens 912
  • Insane Americans confined in foreign asylums 1170
  • Inspection of meat for exportation, operation of law as to 953
  • Inspection, steamship, reciprocal arrangement with Japan for exemption of 990
  • Insurrection in:
    • Cuba, and intervention of the United States 454
    • Dominican Republic 536
  • Institutions in Turkey, equal treatment for Americans 1372
  • Intercontinental Railway, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to 1614
  • Interest on Haitian bonds, law providing for payment of 891
  • International:
    • arrangement for unifying formulas for heroic medicines 79
    • celebration at Jamestown, foreign governments invited to take part in 2
    • Central American Bureau, convention establishing at Guatemala city 863
    • conventions. See Treaties.
    • diplomatic conferences—
      • at Algeciras, reforms in Morocco 1470
        • text of general act adopted 1495
      • Geneva (Red Cross) convention of 1906 1528
        • report of American delegation 1547
      • Second Peace Conference at The Hague 1625
      • Third Pan-American Conference 1565
      • Wireless Telegraphy 1513
        • text of convention 1519
    • Institute of Agriculture, convention establishing 942
    • investigation of opium trade suggested 360
    • law commission, convention adopted by Pan-American Conference establishing 1601
    • maritime conference relative to collisions and salvage at sea 72
    • sanitary convention of 1905, deposit of ratifications 1127
    • settlement at Shanghai, threatened restriction of boundaries of 297
    • trade, opening ports of Manchuria to 162
  • Interpreter to American embassy in Japan, status of 1064
  • Intervention by the United States with Turkey in behalf of the Armenians 1417
  • Intervention of United States in Cuba to quell insurrection 454
  • Intoxicants, international conference and convention relative to traffic in Africa of 52
  • Invoices:
    • of goods purchased for export to United States, place of certification 647
    • verification by consuls 648
  • Irrigation, convention between Mexico and United States, distributing waters of Rio Grande for 1128
  • Island possessions, extradition treaties between United States and Denmark to include 531
  • Isle of Pines, alleged outrage on American residents of 510
  • Italy:
    • arbitration treaty with Denmark 528
    • Baccelli, Guido, function in honor of 910
    • change in extradition treaty with Greece 815
    • commercial treaty with Austria-Hungary 910
      • with Bulgaria 140
    • consular convention between Guatemala and 827
    • counterfeiting American consular seal 934
    • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria 46
    • death of Italians in United States, notice to Italian consuls 964
    • degree conferred on King of, by University of Pennsylvania 962
    • destruction of tobacco owned by Government of 949
    • exclusion of alleged misbranded olive oil from United States 907
    • extradition treaty with Greece, amendment to 916
    • harsh treatment of Italian laborers 919
    • International Institute of Agriculture 942
    • issuance of passports 910
    • marriage of Italians to Americans in the United States 962
    • meat for exportation, operation of law regarding inspection of 953
    • Mount Vesuvius eruption 913
    • prohibition of food products 965
    • regulations regarding certificate of origin of importations into 908
    • seamen deserting from foreign vessels in the Philippines 941
    • trade-marks in China, protection of 232

J.

  • Jamestown celebration, invitation to foreign governments to participate in 1
  • Jamestown Exposition, invitation to American Republics to send exhibits to 2
  • Japan:
    • alleged violations of Geneva and The Hague conventions by Russia 990
    • American property in Port Arthur and Dalny 1074
    • Chinese students in schools of 1072
    • consular officers, recognition of subordinate, in 1065
    • copyright convention with United States 968
    • customs tariff law 994
    • diplomatic intervention in contentious matters restricted 1071
    • earthquake in Formosa 1063
    • exchange of prisoners of war with Russia 1086, 1335
    • extradition convention with United States, supplementary 1069
    • famine in 999
    • Korean affairs, administration of, by 1022
    • Korean mining law 1046
    • Kwantung leased territory, administration of, by 1050
    • Manchuria, opening ports of, to international trade 162
    • mutual raising to embassies of the legations of United States and 1005
    • opening of cable between Guam and 1021
    • opium trade, international investigation suggested of 360
    • post-bellum arrangement between forces of Russia and 1083
    • practice of medicine and dentistry in 1068
    • purchase of railways by Government of 986
    • reciprocal exemption of steamship inspection 990
    • recognition of Cuban consul-general 1019
    • resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia 1087, 1335
    • South Manchurian Railway Company established, 195, 1009
    • status of Japanese secretary and interpreter to American embassy in 1064
    • treaty and additional agreement with China as to Manchuria 995
    • visit of Prince Arthur of Connaught to 1022
  • Japanese secretary to American embassy in Japan, status of 1064
  • Jews in Roumania, naturalization of 1248
  • Jews in Russia, treatment and condition of 1296
  • Jones, Admiral John Paul, removal of remains to Naval Academy 636
  • Judicial reforms in China 341

K.

  • Kahn, Maurice, military service case of 648
  • Kidnaping of Antonio Martinez in Mexico 1121
  • King of Italy, degree of doctor of laws conferred by University of Pennsylvania on 962
  • King of Spain:
    • attempted assassination of, and Queen 1348
    • marriage of 1343
  • Knight Commander, capture and destruction of, by Russian cruiser 1318
  • Kongo Free State:
    • Cattier’s work on administration of affairs in 89
    • Foreign Christian Missionary Society, refusal of sale of lands to 99
    • investigation of affairs in 88
    • reforms in 101
  • Korea:
    • administration of affairs of, by Japan 1022
    • mining law of 1046
  • Kouri, Michael J., claim against Haiti for false imprisonment of 871
  • Kwangtung leased territory, Japanese administration of 1050
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L.

  • Labaree, Rev. Benjamin W., murder in Persia of 1208
  • Laborers, Italian, harsh treatment by Spruce Pine Columbia Company of 919
  • Laborers on plantations in Guatemala, impressment of American 824
  • Legislation of Dominican Congress, 1906 564
  • Liberia, immigrants’ expenses, law as to 1090
  • Liberty, religious, law of Bolivia granting 106
  • Licenses to American citizens of Syrian origin in Haiti 897
  • Lienchou riots, China, claims for damages from 308
  • Letters of attorney, authentication in Turkey of 1406
  • Letters rogatory:
    • agreement between United States and Spain dispensing with authentication of, exchanged between Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Spain 17
    • convention between Argentine Republic and Spain, dispensing with authentication of 14
  • Lorraine, Germany, application of naturalization treaties to 648
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition, thanks to governments participating in 3
  • Luxemburg, death of Grand Duke Adolphe and accession of Grand Duke William 1093

M.

  • Macoris, Dominican Republic, withdrawal of exequatur of Portuguese consul at 570
  • Magoon, Charles E., provisional governor of Cuba 494
  • Manchuria:
    • delays in opening ports of Mukden, Dalny, and Antung 170
    • foreign settlements at open ports 290
    • Japanese administration of Kwangtung leased territory in 1050
    • opening of additional ports 222
    • opening to international settlement Chi-nan-fu 162
    • property of Americans in Port Arthur and Dalny 1074
    • South Manchurian Railway Company established 195
    • treaty and additional arrangement between Japan and China as to 995
  • Manufacturing enterprises in Ecuador, decree encouraging 627
  • Marblehead, U. S. S., treaty of peace between Guatemala and Honduras and Salvador signed on board 851
  • Maritime conference relative to collisions and salvage at sea, international 72
  • Marriage of Italians to Americans in the United States 962
  • Marriage of the King of Spain 1343
  • Meat for exportation, operation of law as to inspection of 953
  • Meat-inspection labels, recognition in Mexico of United States 1117
  • Meats, restriction against importation of, from non-European countries into Austria 43
  • Medal, Benjamin Franklin, presented to French Government 633
  • Medicine, practice of, in Japan 1068
  • Medicines, heroic, international arrangement for unifying formulas for 79
  • Merchandise transferred through Mexico, from port to port of United States 1107
  • Messages of the Presidents of—
  • Mexican Empire, bonds issued by, status of 1125
  • Mexico:
    • antiforeign agitation in, alleged 1124
    • bonds issued by Mexican Empire 1125
    • convention for arbitration of pecuniary claims, countries ratifying 1115
      • with United States, distributing waters of Rio Grande for irrigation 1128
    • depredations of Yaqui Indians 1134
    • diphtheria epidemic in Magdalena, assistance of United States squadron in 1123
    • kidnaping of Antonio Martinez 1121
    • mediation of, in war between Guatemala and Salvador and Honduras 837
    • official reception of Ambassador Thompson 1131
    • recognition of United States meat-inspection labels 1117
    • removal of dead bodies from 1114
    • sanitary convention of 1905, deposit of ratifications 1127
    • seizure of American fishing vessels 1094
    • transit of merchandise from port to port through 1107
  • Military schools of the United States, admission of officers of American Republics to 2
  • Military service case of Maurice Kahn 648
  • Military tax on naturalized Americans born in Servia 1338
  • Mine disaster at Courrieres, France 639
  • Mines, explosive, floating in Chinese waters 300
  • Mining law of Korea 1046
  • Mining regulations in China 261
  • Missionaries:
    • in China, right to acquire property in interior 276
    • in Turkey, right to travel of 1396
    • murder of American, at Lienchou 308
  • Missionary, etc., institutions in Turkey, equal treatment for American 1372
  • Missionary school at Chiengmai, Siam, American 1389
  • Mitre, Emilio, open letter to Secretary Root by, on the foreign policy of United States with South America 33
  • Mixed court at Shanghai, revision of rules and resulting riots 369
  • Modus vivendi, boundary dispute between Peru and Colombia 1220
  • Mole St. Nicholas, Haiti, opened to foreign commerce 893
  • Monroe doctrine and relations between Brazil and United States 116
  • Montenegro, emigration to United States from 1152
  • Montt, Don Pedro, elected and inaugurated President of Chile 145
  • Morales, Carlos F., President of Dominican Republic, resignation of 548
  • Morocco:
    • extradition of Paul Stensland from 1161
    • international conference at Algeciras, on reforms in 1470
      • text of general act 1495
    • mission of Minister Gummeré to Fez 1153
    • murder of a French citizen at Tangier 1160
    • right of American owners of vessels purchased abroad to fly United States flag 1157
    • Mosquito Territory, treaty acknowledging sovereignty of Nicaragua over 1181
    • Mount Vesuvius eruption 913
    • Mukden, delays in opening, to international trade 170
    • Munoz, Senor Don Jorge, minister from Guatemala, death of 866
    • Murder:
      • of a French citizen at Tangier 1160
      • of missionaries at Lienchou, China 308
      • of Rev. Benjamin W. Labaree in Persia 1208
      • of William H. Stuart, American vice-consul at Batum, Russia 1290

N.

  • Nanchang, China, riots at 324
  • Naturalization certificates, anglicizing of foreign names in issuing 910
  • Naturalization of Jews in Roumania 1248
  • Naturalization treaties:
    • between Haiti and Great Britain 895
    • between United States and Germany, application to Alsace-Lorraine 648
  • Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., removal of remains of John Paul Jones to 636
  • Naval and military celebration at Jamestown, foreign governments invited to part in 1
  • Naval forces of United States landed in Cuba 482
  • Navy, United States:
    • assistance of squadron in epidemic of diphtheria, Magdalena, Mexico 1123
    • visit of squadron to Piraeus, Greece 815
  • Nestorian church in Persia, protection of 1285
  • Netherlands:
    • arbitration treaty with Denmark 530
    • arbitration treaty with Portugal, ratified 1178
    • citizenship of persons born in United States of naturalized parents 1179
    • consular convention with United States of 1855, status of 1165
    • emigration agents of South Carolina in 67
    • extradition treaty with Greece, ratified 1178
    • fictitious estates in 1171
    • imprisonment for debt in 1173
    • insane Americans confined in foreign asylums 1170
  • Newfoundland fishery question 661, 784
    • modus vivendi of 1906 701
    • correspondence respecting 707
    • treaty of 1818 750
    • act of Parliament, 1819 751
    • order in council, 1819 752
    • Newfoundland bait act, 1889 753
      • foreign fishing-vessels act, 1893 674, 757
    • convention of 1902 (not perfected) 758
    • Newfoundland foreign fishing-vessels act—
    • Nicaragua:
      • assassination of minister of foreign affairs 1183
      • treaties with Great Britain, as to Mosquito Territory and port of San Juan del Norte 1181
    • “Night riders,” destruction of tobacco owned by Italy by 949
    • Nobel prize awarded to President Roosevelt 1191
    • Norway:
      • award of Nobel peace prize to President Roosevelt 1191
      • coronation of King Haakon, special ambassador from United States to 1189
      • emigration agents of South Carolina in 69

O.

  • Officers of American Republic, admission to United States military schools 2
  • Olive oil, exclusion of alleged misbranded 907
  • Olympic games in Greece 813
  • Opium trade, international investigation suggested of 360
  • Opium traffic in China restricted 352
  • “Open-door” policy in Manchuria 162
  • Open ports in China and Manchuria, foreign settlements at 290
  • Oscar II, King of Sweden, speech at opening of Riksdag by 1357
  • Outrage on American residents of the Isle of Pines, alleged 510

P.

  • Pacification of Cuba, intervention of United States for 454
  • Panama:
    • exequaturs of consuls through American ministers abroad 3
    • rights of American citizens in disputed territory 1201
    • treaty rights of United States to maintain peace and order in 1203
    • visit of President Roosevelt 1194
      • of Secretary Root 1197
  • Pan-American Conference, Third 1565
  • Pan-American Railway Committee, report of 1615
  • Palermo, Italy, counterfeiting American consular seal at 934
  • Palma, Tomas Estrada, President of Cuba, message to extraordinary session of Congress 483
  • Paraguay:
    • annual message of President 1427
  • Parcels-post treaty with Bolivia, transit of articles through Peru 107
  • Paris, France, Franklin celebration in 632
  • Parliament (Douma) of Russia:
  • Passports:
    • issuance in Italy to naturalized American citizens 910
      • may be granted infants 912
    • of American citizens in Russia 1286
    • of American citizens of Swedish birth 1360
  • Patent law:
  • Patents:
    • agreement with Denmark for protection of designs and models 533
    • international convention for protection of—
      • adopted by Third Pan-American Conference 1596
      • adopted by Second Pan-American Conference 1599
    • regulations for protection of, in China, not concluded 260
  • Peace and order in Panama, treaty rights of United States to maintain 1203
  • Peace conference at The Hague, second 1625
  • Peace treaty concluded by Honduras and Salvador with Guatemala 851
  • Peasant class in Russia, amelioration of 1267
  • Pechili, Gulf of, floating mines in 300
  • Pecuniary claims:
    • countries ratifying convention for 1115
    • international treaty relating to, adopted by Pan-American Conference 1595
  • Penn, J., article by, on Monroe doctrine and relations between Brazil and United States 116
  • Penna, Dr. Affonso, elected and inaugurated President of Brazil 112
  • Pennsylvania, University of, degree conferred on King of Italy by 962
  • Persia:
    • good offices of Great Britain in rendering assistance to American citizens in 1214
    • murder of Rev. Benjamin W. Labaree 1208
    • political reforms in 1216
    • protection of Nestorian Church in 1285
    • Personal taxation in Turkey, petitions for release from 1403
  • Peru:
    • annual message of the President 1222
    • boundary dispute—
      • with Bolivia, retirement of both parties from Heath territory 106
      • with Colombia 1219
    • commercial treaty with Bolivia ratified 1220
    • consular administration of estates in 1236
    • immigration encouraged by 1221
    • parcel-post articles from Bolivia to United States permitted transit through 107
    • visit of Secretary Root 1227
  • Petroleum, increase in Turkey of storage tax on 1400
  • Petroleum refinery in Haiti, law establishing 904
  • Philippine Islands:
    • agreement with Spain, dispensing with authentication of letters rogatory exchanged between Spain and 17
    • arrest, etc., of seamen deserting foreign vessels in 941
  • Piraeus, visit of American naval squadron to 815
  • Piscicultural enterprises in Ecuador, decree encouraging 627
  • Political:
    • and business conditions in Colombia 442
    • conditions in Portugal 1240
    • disturbances in Russia 1274
    • events in Dominican Republic, chronology of 572
    • reforms in Persia 1216
  • Pork meats, inspection of, for exportation to 953
  • Port Arthur, American property in 1074
  • Porto Rico, agreement dispensing with authentication of letters rogatory exchanged between Spain and 17
  • Portugal:
    • alien regulations of colonies of 1244
    • arbitration treaty with Netherlands ratified 1178
    • political conditions in 1240
  • Portuguese consul at Macoris, withdrawal of exequatur of 570
  • Postage charges in Haiti 894
  • Postal matter mailed by a consul, immunity for 1416
  • Postbellum arrangement between Japanese and Russian forces 1083
  • Potatoes, restriction on importation into Germany not to include sweet potatoes 654
  • Preferential duties on American products in Brazil 113
  • Presentation of Benjamin Franklin gold medal to French Government 633
  • President of—
    • Argentine Republic, message of 12
    • Brazil, election and inauguration of 112
      • message of 136
    • Chile, election and inauguration of 145
    • Cuba, message to extraordinary session of Congress 483
    • Dominican Republic, message of 568
    • Paraguay, message of 1427
    • Peru, annual message of 1222
    • United States, messages of vii , lx
    • Venezuela, temporary retirement of Cipriano Castro 1440
  • Prince Arthur of Connaught, visit to Japan 1022
  • Prisoners of war, exchange of, between Japan and Russia 1086, 1335
  • Prize, capture, etc., of Knight Commander by Russian cruiser, as 1318
  • Proclamation of President of United States:
    • announcing reciprocity agreement between United States and Germany 646
    • asking aid to Chilean earthquake sufferers 158
  • Products of Haiti, exhibit in Haitian consulates of 903
  • Professions:
    • laws regulating practice of, in Argentine Republic; recognition of diplomas of United States colleges 11
    • liberal, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to practice of the 1609
  • Prohibition:
    • of food products, artificial coloring 965
    • of importation of firearms into Russia 1316
    • on importation of potatoes into Germany not to include sweet potatoes 654
  • Property in China, rights of missionaries to acquire 276
  • Property of Americans in Port Arthur and Dalny 1074
  • Protection of:
    • Chinese in Guatemala 823
    • citizens abroad, board to inquire into laws regarding, 4
    • Nestorian Church in Persia 1285
  • Provisional government in Cuba 491
  • Public debts, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to collection of 1609
  • Purchase of railways by Japanese Government 986

Q.

  • Quintana, Don Manuel, President of Argentine Republic, death of 11

R.

  • Radio telegraphy, international convention in regard to 1519
  • Railroads, organization of South Manchurian Railway Company 1009
  • Railway building in Ecuador 629
  • Railway, Pan-American, report of Permanent Committee 1615
  • Railways, purchase by Japanese Government of 986
  • Real estate in Turkey, holding, by persons of Ottoman birth who have changed their nationality 1410
  • Reciprocal commercial agreements:
    • between Bulgaria and United States 141
    • between Germany and United States, continued 640
    • between Spain and United States 1341
    • between Switzerland and United States 1368
  • Reciprocity treaty with Cuba, foreign rice milled in United States refused benefits of 515
  • Recognition of consuls-general at large, instructions to diplomatic officers to request 6
  • Recognition of United States meat-inspection labels in Mexico 1117
  • Red Cross convention, alleged violations by Russia of 990, 1334
  • Red Cross convention of 1906 1528
  • Reforms in:
    • China, governmental, judicial, and educational 341
    • Morocco, international conference at Algeciras on 1470
    • Persia, political 1216
  • Relations of United States with Colombia 412
  • Religious denominations in Spain, status of non-Catholic 1351
  • Religious liberty, law of Bolivia granting 106
  • Removal of dead bodies of American citizens from Mexico 1114
  • Removal of remains of John Paul Jones to Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md 636
  • Repatriation, convention establishing status of naturalized citizens returning to live in country of origin 1594
  • Resources of American Republics, resolution of Pan-American Conference as to natural 1612
  • Restrictions:
    • in Austria against importation of meats 43
    • of international settlement, Shanghai, China 297
    • of opium traffic in China 352
    • on potato importation in Germany, not to include sweet potatoes 654
    • upon the sale of Bibles in Turkey 1414
  • Resumption of diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan 1087, 1335
  • Retiring diplomatic officer, immunities of 1448
  • Revenues, Dominican customs, control by United States of 559
  • Revolution in Ecuador 623
  • Revolutionary disturbances in Dominican Republic 536
  • Reyes, Gen. Rafael, President of Colombia, attempted assassination of 410
  • Rice, foreign, milled in United States, refused benefits of reciprocity treaty in Cuba 515
  • Rights of American citizens in disputed Central American territory 1184, 1201
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Pan-American Conference at 1565
  • Rio Grande, convention with Mexico, distributing waters of, for irrigation 1128
  • Riots at:
    • Chang-p’u and Nanchang, China 324
    • Shanghai, resulting from revision of rules of mixed court 369
  • Riots, claims for damages, Lienchou, China 308
  • Riots, etc., in Russia 1274
  • Rome, Italy, convention establishing International Institute of Agriculture at 942
  • Roosevelt, President Theodore:
    • awarded Nobel peace prize 1191
    • visit to Panama 1194
      • address of welcome by President Amador 1195
      • reply by President Roosevelt 1196
    • Root, Elihu, Secretary of State:
    • Roumania:
      • commercial treaties with Great Britain and Russia 1247
      • naturalization of Jews in 1248
      • patent law of 1249
      • relations between Greece and 818, 1246
      • trade-mark convention with United States 1247
    • Russia:
      • amelioration of peasant class in 1267
      • capture and destruction of Knight Commander 1318
      • commercial agreement with Sweden 1359
      • commercial treaty—
        • with Bulgaria 140
        • with Roumania 1247
      • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria and 46
      • emigration agents of South Carolina in 69
      • exchange of prisoners of war with Japan 1086, 1335
      • importation of firearms prohibited 1316
      • inauguration of Douma (parliament) 1251
      • murder of American vice-consul at Batum 1290
      • passports of American citizens in 1286
      • patent law in 1314
      • postbellum arrangement between forces of Japan and 1083
      • protection of Nestorian church in Persia 1285
      • resignation of Count Witte, and formation of new cabinet 1336
      • resumption of diplomatic relations with Japan 1087, 1335
      • strikes, riots, and political disturbances in 1274
      • trade-marks in China, protection of 233
      • treatment and condition of Jews in 1296
      • violations of Geneva and Hague conventions by, alleged 990, 1334
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S.

  • Saint Louis Exposition, thanks to governments participating in 3
  • Salvador:
    • convention with Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras, for Central American Bureau 863
    • convention with Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras, for Central American Pedagogical Institute 865
    • treaty of amity, etc., between Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and 857
    • war between Guatemala and 834
      • mediation of United States and Mexico 837
      • treaty of peace concluded 851
    • Salvage at sea, international maritime conference relative to collisions and 72
  • San Francisco:
    • cable opened between Shanghai and 409
    • earthquake in lx
  • San José, Costa Rica, convention establishing Central American Pedagogical Institute at 865
  • San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, free port of, abolished 1183
  • Sanitary convention of 1905, deposit of ratifications 1127
  • Sanitary police, international, resolution of Pan-American Conference relative to 1613
  • Sanitation of Cuban cities 503
  • Sanitation of Guayaquil 627
  • Sannon, Pauléus, appointed secretary for foreign affairs of Haiti 878
  • Santo Domingo. See Dominican Republic.
  • Saturnus, claim of El Oriente Company for funds taken by Filipino insurgents from 57
  • Seamen deserting from foreign vessels in the Philippines, arrest, etc 941
  • Seamen, law prohibiting shanghaiing of 5
  • Second Pan-American Conference at Mexico, instructions to American delegates 1572
  • Second Peace Conference at The Hague 1625
  • Seizure of American fishing vessels by Mexico 1094
  • Servia:
    • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria and 46
    • military tax on naturalized Americans born in 1338
  • Settlement at Shanghai, threatened restriction of international 297
  • Settlements, foreign, in China and Manchuria 290
  • Shanghai:
    • cable between San Francisco and, opened 409
    • mixed court at, revision of rules and resulting riots 369
    • threatened restriction of boundaries of international settlement at 297
  • Shanghaiing, law of June 28, 1908, prohibiting 5
  • Shipping, law prohibiting shanghaiing 5
  • Siam, American missionary school at Chiengmai 1339
  • Singapore, boycott of American goods at 803
  • South African Republic, bonds of 791
  • South American Republics, visit of Secretary Root to:
  • South American trade, address of Secretary Root before Trans-Mississippi Congress, on 1456
  • South Carolina:
    • emigration agents of, in Europe 62
    • status of emigrants 70
  • South Manchurian Railway Company:
    • established 195
    • organized in Japan 1009
  • Spain:
    • agreement with United States, dispensing with authenticating letters rogatory exchanged between Porto Rico, the Philippines, and 17
    • arbitration treaty with Honduras 1353
    • attempt on life of King and Queen 1348
    • commercial treaty with Switzerland 1354
    • marriage of the King 1343
    • reciprocity agreement with United States 1341
    • status of non-Catholic religious denominations in 1351
  • Spirituous liquors, international conference and convention relative to traffic in Africa of 52
  • Spruce Pine Columbia Company, harsh treatment of Italian laborers by 919
  • Stamp-tax law in Turkey 1398
  • Status of naturalized citizens returning to country of origin, convention establishing 1594
  • Steamship inspection, arrangement with Japan, for reciprocal exemption of 990
  • Stensland, Paul, extradition of, from Morocco 1161
  • Storage tax on petroleum in Turkey, increase of 1400
  • Strikes, etc., in Russia 1274
  • Stuart, William H., American vice-consul at Batum, Russia, murder of 1290
  • Submarine mines, proposition for international agreement as to use of 304
  • Sugar production tax, enforcement by Dominican Government of 609
  • Sweden:
    • commercial treaty—
    • emigration agents of South Carolina in 69
    • King Oscar’s speech at opening of Riksdag 1357
    • passports of American citizens born in 1360
    • reorganization of diplomatic and consular service of 1362
  • Sweet potatoes, restriction on importation of potatoes in Germany, not to include 654
  • Switzerland:
    • commercial treaty with Spain 1354
    • customs tariff and commercial treaty with Austria 46
    • exclusion of divorced insane wife of an American citizen 1364
    • reciprocal commercial agreement with United States 1368
    • status of American widow of a foreign subject 1370
  • Syrian naturalized American citizen, licenses in Haiti to 897

T.

  • Taft, Secretary of War William H., acting provisional governor of Cuba 491
  • Tariff law:
  • Tariffs, preferential, on American products in Brazil 113
  • Tax on:
    • petroleum, increase in Turkey of storage 1400
    • sugar production, enforcement by Dominican Government of 609
  • Taxation:
    • in Turkey, petitions for release from personal 1403
    • of foreign corporations in Belgium 71
    • of property in United States by Turkish Government, alleged 1408
  • Taxes:
    • church, American citizens exempted from paying, in Germany 658
    • in Turkey, stamp 1398
  • Telegraphy, wireless, international convention establishing rules in regard to 1513
  • Tercentennial of settlement of America by English-speaking people, invitation to foreign nations to participate in celebration of 1
  • Thanks of Congress to governments participating in Louisiana Purchase Exposition 3
  • Third Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro 1565
  • Tobacco owned by Italian Government, destruction in United States of 949
  • Torpedoes floating in Gulf of Pechili, China 300
  • Trade-marks:
    • convention—
      • between France and Cuba 521
      • between Roumania and United States as to 1247
    • in China, reciprocal agreements for protection of 228
    • in Cuba, protection of rights of American citizens 494
    • international convention tor protection of, adopted by Third pan-American Conference 1596
    • regulations in China 234
  • Trade with South America, address of Secretary Root before Trans-Mississippi Congress on 1456
  • Trans-Mississippi Congress, address of Secretary Root on South American trade before 1456
  • Transit of merchandise from port to port through Mexico 1107
  • Transportation of emigrants from Hungary 49
  • Travel in Turkey, right of missionaries to 1396
  • Treaties, etc.:
    • agreement—
      • between Spain and United States, dispensing with authentication of letters rogatory exchanged between Spain and Porto Rico and the Philippines 17
      • with Denmark for protection of industrial designs or models 533
    • amity, etc., between Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador 857
    • arbitration—
      • between Denmark and Italy 528
      • between Denmark and Netherlands 530
      • ratified 1178
      • between Netherlands and Portugal, ratified 1178
      • between Spain and Honduras 1353
    • between Great Britain and United States, marking Alaskan boundary 801
    • between Japan and China; and additional agreement 995
    • between Nicaragua and Great Britain as to Mosquito territory and San Juan del Norte 1181
    • commercial—
      • between Austria-Hungary and Italy 910
      • between Bulgaria and Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy 140
      • between France and Haiti, temporary extension of 901
      • between Germany and Bulgaria 655
      • between Peru and Bolivia, ratified 1220
      • between Roumania and Great Britain 1247
      • between Roumania and Russia 1247
      • between Spain and Switzerland 1354
      • between Sweden and Germany 1358
      • between Sweden and Russia 1359
    • consular convention—
      • of 1855, between United States and Netherlands, status of 1165
      • between Guatemala and Italy 827
    • convention—
      • between Argentine Republic and Spain, dispensing with authentication of signatures of letters rogatory 14
      • between Mexico and United States, distributing waters of Rio Grande for irrigation 1128
      • establishing Central American Pedagogical Institute 865
      • establishing International Central American Bureau 863
      • for arbitration of pecuniary claims, countries ratifying 1115
      • of peace between Guatemala and Honduras and Salvador 851
    • copyright convention—
      • between Japan and United States 968
      • text of 983
    • customs tariff and commercial treaties between Austria-Hungary and Germany, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Servia, and Switzerland 46
    • extradition—
      • between Italy and Greece, amendment to 916
      • between Japan and United States, supplementary 1069
      • between Netherlands and Greece, ratified 1178
      • between United States and Denmark, supplementary 531
    • general act of Algeciras, reforms in Morocco 1495
    • Geneva (Red Cross) convention of 1906 1559
    • international, adopted by Third Pan-American Conference 1594
    • international convention—
      • establishing International Institute of Agriculture 947
      • revising rules as to spirituous liquors in Africa 52
    • naturalization—
      • between Haiti and Great Britain 895
      • between United States and Germany; application to Alsace-Lorraine 648
    • reciprocal commercial agreement—
      • between Bulgaria and United States 141
      • between Germany and United States, continued 640
      • between Spain and United States 1341
      • between Switzerland and United States 1368
    • sanitary convention of 1905, deposit ratifications 1127
    • trade-marks convention—
      • between France and Cuba 521
      • between Roumania and United States 1247
    • wireless telegraphy, international convention in regard to 1519
  • Treatment and condition of Jews in Russia 1296
  • Turkey:
    • alleged taxation of property in United States by Government of 1408
    • authentication of letters of attorney in 1406
    • customs duties, proposed increase of 1412
    • equal treatment for American institutions in 1372
    • holding of real estate in, by persons of Ottoman birth who have changed their nationality 1410
    • immunity for postal matter mailed by a consul 1416
    • increase of storage tax on petroleum 1400
    • intervention in behalf of the Armenians 1417
    • missionaries’ rights to travel in 1396
    • petitions for release from personal taxation 1403
    • removal of bodies for burial in 1405
    • restrictions upon sale of the Bible in 1414
    • stamp-tax law 1398

U.

  • United States:
    • agreement—
      • with Spain, dispensing with authentication of letters rogatory exchanged between Spain and Porto Rico and the Philippines 17
      • with Denmark for protection of industrial designs or models 533
    • Alaskan boundary treaty 801
    • ambassador from, at coronation of King of Norway 1189
    • citizenship of persons born in, of naturalized parents 1179
    • consular convention with Netherlands of 1855, status of 1165
    • consular officers can not receive foreign appointments 534
    • control of Dominican customs revenues by 559
    • copyright convention between Japan and 968
    • copyrights, rules for protection of, in China, under treaty, not concluded 260
    • court for China established 407
    • death of Italians in, notification to Italian consuls 964
    • destruction of tobacco owned by the Italian Government in 949
    • diplomas of, colleges to Argentine students, recognized by Argentine Republic 11
    • earthquake in Chile, proclamation asking aid to sufferers 158
    • exclusion of Louis Wythouck from returning to 61
    • extradition convention with Japan, supplementary 1069
    • extradition treaty with Denmark, supplementary 531
    • flag, right of American owners of vessels purchased abroad to fly the 1157
    • food-inspection law, action of British grocers 798
    • foreign rice milled in, refused reciprocity treaty rates of duty in Cuba 515
    • Franklin medal presented to France by 633
    • good offices of, relations between Colombia and Venezuela 1438
    • immigration of Greeks into 808
    • intervention of—
      • for pacification of Cuba 454
      • with Turkey in behalf of the Armenians 1417
    • liability under military and expatriation laws of Greece of naturalized citizens of 812
    • marriage of Italians to Americans in 962
    • meat-inspection labels recognized in Mexico 1117
    • mediation of, in war between Guatemala and Salvador and Honduras 837
    • Monroe doctrine and relations between Brazil and 116
    • mutual raising to embassies of the legations of Japan and 1005
    • parcel-post treaty with Bolivia, transit of articles through Peru 107
    • patents, rules for protection of, in China, under treaty, not concluded 260
    • preferential duties in Brazil on products of 113
    • protection of Venezuelan interests in France, and French interests in Venezuela by the 1432
    • reciprocal commercial agreement—
      • with Bulgaria 141
      • with Germany, continued 640
      • with Spain 1341
      • with Switzerland 1368
    • relations with Colombia 412
    • restrictions by Austria on importation of meats from 43
    • right of admission of Chinese child adopted by American citizen 288
    • rights by treaty to maintain peace, etc., in Panama 1203
    • taxation of property in, by Turkish Government, alleged 1408
    • trade-mark convention with Roumania 1247
    • trade-marks—
      • reciprocal agreements for protection of, in China 228
      • regulations under treaty with China 234
    • visit of naval squadron to Piraeus, Greece 815
  • United States court for China 407
  • University of Pennsylvania, degree conferred on King of Italy by 962
  • Uruguay:
    • visit of Secretary Root 1420
    • governments of, 1828–1906 1429

V.

  • Valparaiso, Chile, destruction by earthquake 155
  • Valorization of coffee in Brazil 109
  • Venezuela:
    • address of Secretary Root before the Trans-Mississippi Congress 1456
    • immunities of retiring diplomatic officer 1448
    • protection of French interests in Venezuela and Venezuelan interests in France 1432
    • relations with Colombia, good offices of United States 1438
    • temporary retirement of President Castro 1440
  • Verification of invoices and declarations by consuls 647
  • Vessels, arrest, etc., of seamen in the Philippines deserting foreign 941
  • Violations of Geneva and Hague conventions by Russia, alleged 990, 1334
  • Visit of President Roosevelt to Panama 1194
  • Visit of Secretary Root to South American republics:
    • Argentine Republic, invitation from 19
      • dispatch from Minister Beaupré giving details 21
      • address of welcome by President Alcorta 25
        • response by Mr. Root 26
      • official reception, speech of Doctor Drago 27
        • reply of Mr. Root 29
      • editorial notices 31, 39
      • foreign policy of United States with South America, open letter by Emilio Mitre 33
    • Bolivia, invitation from 108
      • acceptance not feasible 108
    • Brazil, dispatch from Ambassador Griscom giving details 124
      • address of welcome to Third Conference of American Republics by its president 126
        • response by Secretary Root 127
        • speeches by other delegates 130
      • dispatch from Ambassador Griscom commenting upon effect of visit 134
      • speech by minister of foreign affairs at banquet given by him to Mr. Root 131
        • reply of Mr. Root 132
      • speech by Doctor Darcy in house of delegates 132
        • reply of Mr. Root 133
    • Chile, invitation from Government 147
      • dispatch from Minister Hicks giving details 148
      • speech of welcome by President Riesco 150
        • response by Mr. Root 150
      • speech of minister of foreign affairs at banquet given by the President 151
        • reply of Mr. Root 153
      • telegram from President Riesco to President Roosevelt 154
        • reply of President Roosevelt 155
    • Colombia, invitation of Government 439
      • address of minister of foreign affairs 441
        • reply of Mr. Root 441
    • Ecuador, invitation from Government 624
      • response of Mr. Root 625
      • regret of Government, at Secretary’s inability to stop at Guayaquil 626
        • reply of Mr. Root 626
    • Panama, invitation from Government 1197
      • address by secretary of foreign relations 1198
        • reply by Secretary Root 1200
    • Peru, invitation from Government 1227
      • welcome of President Pardo y Barreda 1228
        • reply of Mr. Root 1229
      • speech of minister for foreign affairs at banquet 1230
        • reply of Mr. Root 1233
      • President Pardo’s telegram to President Roosevelt 1235
        • response of President Roosevelt 1235
      • Peruvian Senate to United States Senate 1235
    • Uruguay, invitation from Government 1420
      • speech of President at banquet at the Government House 1423
        • reply of Mr. Root 1424
      • speech of minister for foreign affairs at banquet at foreign office 1425
        • reply of Mr. Root 1426
  • Volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius 913

W.

  • War in Central America, mediation of United States and Mexico 834
  • Widow of a foreign subject, status of an American 1370
  • William, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, accession to the throne 1093
  • Wireless telegraphy, international convention establishing rules in regard to 1513
  • Witte, Count, resignation as premier of Russian cabinet 1336
  • Wounded o! armies in the field, Geneva (Red Cross) convention for amelioration of 1559
  • Wythouck, Louis, excluded from returning to United States 61

Y.

  • Yaqui Indians in Mexico, depredations of 1134