Contents

[For alphabetical index, see end of volume.]

• Address of the President, annual
• List of papers, in chronological order, with subjects of correspondence
• Circulars:
  • Certificates of inspection of nursery stock
  • International rifle-shooting tournament
  • Plant quarantine act
  • Expatriation of naturalized citizens
  • Speech of Senator Elihu Root in the Senate, January 16, 1913, repudiating sentiments attributed to him in relation to Latin America
  • Declaration of policy with regard to Latin America
  • Peace plan of the President
  • Prohibition of importation of aigrettes, egret plumes, etc
  • Invitation to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Francsco in 1915
• Argentina:
  • Presentation of a statue of George Washington to Argentina by American citizens resident there
• Austria-Hungary:
  • Naturalization convention of 1871 violated by the arrest and imprisonment in Austria-Hungary of naturalized American citizens on the charge of evasion of military service
• Brazil:
  • Message of the President, Marshal Hermes R. da Fonseca, to the Congress
  • Extradition treaty of 1897 and protocols of 1898 and 1903 between the United States and Brazil, terminated by Brazil, July 23, 1913
  • Proposal by Brazil of a special agreement with the United States regulating the prosecution of counterfeiters when not subject to extradition
  • Valorization of coffee
  • Visit of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Doctor Lauro S. Müller, to the United States
• Bulgaria:
  • Judicial process issued in Bulgaria for service in the United States
  • Extraterritorial rights and most-favored-nation treatment of the United States in Bulgaria
  • War with Turkey. (See Turkey.)
  • War between Bulgaria and Greece, Servia, Montenegro and Roumania
• Chile:
  • The Tacna-Arica dispute with Peru. (See Peru.)
• China:
  • Inaugural address of the President, Yuan Shih K’ai
  • Political affairs: organization of the National Assembly; recognition of the Republic of China by the United States and other powers; inauguration of President Yuan Shih K’ai; uprising in southern provinces suppressed; expulsion by presidential decree of Nationalist members of the Assembly; formation by the President of a Political Council
  • Loan negotiations: withdrawal of the United States group of bankers from the sextuple consortium; conclusion of a reorganization-loan agreement between China and the quintuple group; currency-reform and Manchurian-industrial loan; student loans; miscellaneous loans
  • Indemnity payments
  • Claims of American citizens against China
  • Second International Opium Conference; report of the American delegates
• Colombia:
  • Relations of the United States with Colombia
• Costa Rica:
  • Extradition and deportation from Costa Rica to the United States as an act of comity
• Cuba:
  • Inauguration of President Menocal; participation in the ceremonies of a Special Mission representing the President of the United States
  • Proposal of France, Germany, and Great Britain to arbitrate with Cuba certain insurrectionary claims of their nationals arising prior to 1898
  • Naval station at Guantanamo
  • Cuban amnesty bill; attitude of the United States
  • Zapata Swamp concession
  • Concession for the construction of a bridge across the entrance to the port of Habana; attitude of the United States
  • Caibarien-Nuevitas railroad project; attitude of the United States
  • Scurrilous and libelous newspaper attacks on the American Minister and the Secretary of Legation at Habana; immunity of congressmen from prosecution for crime; attitude of the United States
  • Participation of a Cuban delegation in the dedication of the National Maine Monument in New York City
• Dominican Republic:
  • Message of the President, Archbishop Adolfo A. Nouel
  • Political affairs: resignation of President Nouel; election and inauguration of President Bordas; revolution; measures in regard thereto taken by the United States; observation of Dominican elections by United States officials
  • Financial affairs: conclusion of a loan contract between the Dominican Republic and the National City Bank of New York, with the approval of the United States
  • Arbitration of the boundary dispute between the Dominican Republic and Haiti; good offices of the United States
  • The American Minister as an arbitrator of a French claim
• Ecuador:
  • Recognition of President Plaza by the United States
  • Message of the President, General Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez, to the Congress
  • Revolution at Esnieraldas; attitude of the United States
  • Claims of the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Co. v. Ecuador; arbitration proceedings
  • Sanitation of Guayaquil; discrimination against American bidders; award of contract to a London company
  • Slavery of Indians in the Province of Oriente
  • Boundary dispute with Peru. (See Peru.)
• France:
  • Arbitration Agreement between the United States and France, extending the duration of the Convention of February 10, 1908; text
  • Reestablishment of relations between France and Venezuela; text of protocol relating thereto; good offices of the United States
• Great Britain:
  • Panama Canal tolls: exemption of vessels in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls
  • Extradition Arrangement, effected by exchange of notes, between the United States and Great Britain, providing for extradition between the Philippine Islands or Guam and British North Borneo
• Greece:
  • Assassination of King George I; accession to the throne of King Constantino
  • War with Bulgaria. (See Bulgaria.)
  • War with Turkey. (See Turkey.)
• Guatemala:
  • Message of the President, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, to the National Legislative Assembly
  • Financial affairs: restitution of the coffee revenues to British bondholders; good offices of the United States
• Haiti:
  • Death of President Tancrède Auguste; election and inauguration of President Michel Oreste
  • Abrogation of the right of Syrians to trade in Haiti; rights of American citizens of Syrian birth
  • Arbitration of the boundary dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (See Dominican Republic.)
• Honduras:
  • Message of the President, Manuel Bonilla, to the Congress
  • Death of President Bonilla; assumption of the Presidency by Vice President Francisco Bertrand
  • Recovery by Honduras of the National Railroad of Honduras and the wharf at Puerto Cortes from the lessee, an American citizen; attitude of the United States
• Italy:
  • Sovereignty of Italy over Libya; attitude of the United States in regard to recognition thereof; relinquishment of extraterritorial rights
  • Treaty between the United States and Italy amending Article 3 of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of February 26, 1871; text
  • Payment by the United States to Italy of an indemnity for the lynching of Angelo Albano, an Italian subject
• Japan:
  • Protest of Japan against the land laws of the State of California
• Liberia:
  • Message of the President, Daniel E. Howard, to the Legislature
  • Good offices of the United States in composing difficulties with the German Government
  • Claims of German merchants against Liberia; formation of a claims commission; good offices of the United States
  • Uprisings of natives on the Sierra Leone frontier
  • Transfer of the Donovan Trust Fund to the Liberian Government by the American Colonization Society
• Mexico:
  • Messages of the de facto Provisional President, Victoriano Huerta, to Congress, April 1 and September 16, 1913
  • Political affairs: assassination of President Madero and Vice President Pino Suárez; seizure of the executive power by General Huerta, cooperating with General Felix Díaz; dictatorship of Huerta; imprisonment of opposition deputies and nullification of presidential elections; suppression of Díaz; uprising of Constitutionalists under Venustiano Carranza; measures taken by the United States on the border and in Mexican waters; measures taken by the Diplomatic Corps to protect the lives of foreigners
  • Violations of neutrality: prohibition of shipment of arms and munitions of war into Mexico from the United States, and exceptions thereto
  • Protection of American life and property in Mexico
  • Protection by the United States of Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and Japanese subjects in Mexico
  • Claims of American citizens against Mexico for damages arising from revolutionary disturbances
  • Chamizal controversy
  • Construction and maintenance of protective works on the Colorado River and negotiations with the Government of Mexico concerning the equitable distribution of the waters of that river
  • Settlement of the controversy of the Tlahualilo Company with the Government of Mexico
• Montenegro:
  • War with Bulgaria. (See Bulgaria.)
  • War with Turkey. (See Turkey.)
• Morocco:
  • Responsibility of the Moroccan Government for the safety of foreigners traveling or sojourning in the Empire
• Netherlands:
  • Dedication of the Palace of Peace at The Hague
  • Misuse of the American Flag for advertising purposes
• Nicaragua:
  • Message of the President, Adolfo Díaz, to the Congress
  • Proposed interoceanic canal treaty between the United States and Nicaragua, and protests of Salvador and Costa Rica in relation thereto
  • Financial affairs: conclusion of a loan contract with American bankers; good offices of the United States
• Panama:
  • Declaration permitting consuls to take note of declarations of values of exports made by shippers before customs officers
  • Assault on American citizens in Panama
  • Proposed railroad concession in Panama; attitude of the United States
  • Proposed railroad legislation in Panama; attitude of the United States
  • Status and protection in foreign countries of American citizens of Chinese race
  • Protection of Chinese interests in Panama; good offices of the American Secretary of Legation
• Peru:
  • Message of the President, Guillermo E. Billinghurst, to the Congress
  • Arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of ex-President Augusto B. Leguia; offer of asylum at the American Legation and courtesies extended to him by the United States at Panama and New York; recognition by the Peruvian Government of the right of a political refugee to seek and be accorded asylum at the legation of a foreign country
  • Boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador; request of Peru for arbitration thereof through the mediation of the United States, Argentina, and Brazil
  • The Taena-Arica dispute between Peru and Chile; various proposals for the mediation of the United States, Argentina, and Brazil; refusal of Chile to assent to the offer of the United States to protect Peruvian interests in Chile
  • Slavery in the Putumayo region; joint investigation by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain
• Portugal:
  • American citizenship of Portuguese-born children of native or naturalized American fathers; dual citizenship of American-born children of Portuguese parents; their exemption from Portuguese military service under certain conditions; interpretation of the Naturalization Treaty of 1908 between the United States and Portugal, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and Section 1993 of the Revised Statutes
• Roumania:
  • War with Bulgaria. (See Bulgaria.)
• Salvador:
  • Assassination of the President of Salvador, Manuel E. Araújo, and succession of Carlos Melendez to the Presidency
• Servia:
  • War with Bulgaria. (See Bulgaria.)
  • War with Turkey. (See Turkey.)
• Turkey:
  • War between Turkey and Montenegro, Servia, Bulgaria, and Greece; treaty of peace signed at London on May 30, 1913; treaty of peace between Turkey and Bulgaria signed at Constantinople on September 29, 1913, and between Turkey and Greece, at Athens, November 14, 1913
  • Sinking of the steamship Texas of the Archipelago-American Line in Turkish waters by a Turkish battery or mine; protest of the United States against refusal of the Turkish Government to surrender the captain thereof to American consular jurisdiction
  • Protest of the United States against requisitions of American property by the Turkish Government for military purposes
• Uruguay:
  • Arbitration Convention of January 9, 1909, between the United States and Uruguay: text
• Venezuela:
  • Reestablishment of relations between Venezuela and France; good offices of the United States. (See France.)
• International congresses held in the United States:
  • Third International Congress of Refrigeration
  • Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene
• International conventions; texts:
  • Pecuniary Claims Convention between the United States and other Powers (extending the duration of the Treaty for the Arbitration of Pecuniary Claims signed at Mexico on January 30, 1902) signed at Rio de Janeiro, August 13, 1906
  • Convention between the United States and other Powers establishing the Status of Naturalized Citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin; signed at Rio de Janeiro, August 13, 1906
  • Convention between the United States and other Powers for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law with respect to Assistance and Salvage at Sea; signed at Brussels, September 23, 1910
  • Convention and Final Protocol between the United States and other Powers for the Protection of Industrial Property (replacing the Paris Convention and Final Protocol of March 20, 1883, the Protocol of Madrid of April 15, 1891, and the Additional Act signed at Brussels on December 14, 1900) signed at Washington, June 2, 1911
  • Radiotelegraph Convention between the United States and other Powers; Final Protocol; Service Regulations and Supplements thereto; signed at London, July 5, 1912
• Index