The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister of the Netherlands.

Sir: Referring to your note of the 10th ultimo by which, on behalf of your Government, you invite the Government of the United States to send delegates to the Second Peace Conference which is to meet at The Hague on the 15th proximo, and to this department’s note of April 18 accepting the invitation on the part of the United States and stating that the names of the American delegates would be communicated to you at an early date, I have the honor to inform you that the delegation from this country to the conference will consist of the following persons:

Commissioners plenipotentiary with the rank of ambassador extraordinary; Joseph H. Choate, of New York; Horace Porter, of New York; Uriah M. Rose, of Arkansas.

Commissioner plenipotentiary: David Jayne Hill, of New York, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the Netherlands.

Commissioners plenipotentiary with rank of minister plenipotentiary: Brig. Gen. George B. Davis, Judge-Advocate-General, U. S. Army; Rear-Admiral Charles S. Sperry, U. S. Navy; William I. Buchanan, of New York.

Technical delegate and expert in international law: James Brown Scott, of California.

Secretary of the commission: Chandler Hale, of Maine.

Expert attaché to the commission: Charles Henry Butler, of New York.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.