Minister Morgan to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Montevideo
,
April 29,
1910
.
No. 1.]
Sir: I have the honor to transmit the message
which the President of Paraguay recently sent to Congress, and which was
printed in El Diario, of Asuncion, on April 1. A
translation in summary form of the message is also inclosed.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure—Translation.]
Message of the President of
Paraguay.
extract.
International conventions have been drawn with the following
countries:
- A naturalization treaty with the United States.
- A convention with Argentina for the simplification of the
legalization of rogatory letters.
- An arbitration treaty with the United States.
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Within a short time the ratifications of an extradition treaty with
Austria-Hungary will be exchanged.
Extradition treaties with Italy, England, and the United States are
now before your honorable body, and I recommend that they receive
your prompt action.
The Executive believes it advantageous to approve the conventions
signed at the International American Congress and The Hague Peace
Conference, and for this purpose it will in a short time send you a
message, accompanied by the corresponding documents.
The necessity of exercising proper vigilance over the jurisdictional
waters of our rivers, which in great part are exercised in common
with neighboring States, gave rise during the recent revolution to
unforeseen incidents, which showed the necessity of beginning
negotiations for a convention which shall establish the procedure of
fluvial police. Meanwhile my Government maintains that, under the
present circumstances, in default of an express convention, Paraguay
has the right to claim the same practices and exercise the same
powers as are recognized reciprocally by other countries in their
treaties, laws, or decrees regarding the navigation of common
rivers.
