Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1923, Volume I

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1923, Volume I

Editor:

Joseph V. Fuller

General Editor:

Tyler Dennett

United States Government Printing Office

Washington

1938

Message of the President of the United States to Congress, December 6, 1923
List of Papers
General: (Documents 1–237)
- Proposal by the President to the Senate that the United States adhere to the protocol of signature establishing the Permanent Court of International Justice (Documents 1–8)
- Discussion with the British and Japanese Governments regarding a proposed increase in gun elevation on capital ships retained under the Washington naval treaty (Documents 9–13)
- Refusal by the United States to ratify the convention for the control of the trade in arms and ammunition, signed September 10, 1919 (Documents 14–21)
- American representation on the International Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Warfare (Documents 22–30)
- Participation by delegates from the United States in the deliberations of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium (Documents 31–44)
- Approval by the United States of a project for cooperation between the International Office of Public Health and the Health Commission of the League of Nations (Documents 45–50)
- Appointment of American delegates to the International Emigration and Immigration Conference to be convened at Rome (Documents 51–57)
- Decision by the United States to adopt an unconditional most-favored-nation policy in the negotiation of new commercial treaties (Documents 58–64)
- Prevention of the illegal importation of liquor into the United States (Documents 65–152)
- Status in foreign countries of vessels and representatives of the United States Shipping Board (Documents 153–156)
- Negotiations on behalf of the World War Foreign Debt Commission for the settlement or refunding of debts owed the United States by foreign governments (Documents 157–165)
- Reservation by the United States of its rights to Wrangell Island (Documents 166–173)
- Preliminaries to the assembling of the Fifth International Conference of American States at Santiago, Chile (Documents 174–189)
- Conventions between the United States and other American Republics signed at the Fifth International Conference of American States (Documents 190–193)
  - Convention for the protection of commercial, industrial, and agricultural trade marks and commercial names (Document 190)
  - Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between the American states (Document 191)
  - Convention providing for the publicity of customs documents (Document 192)
  - Convention providing for uniformity of nomenclature for the classification of merchandise (Document 193)
- Agreements between the United States and Central American Republics, signed at Washington, February 7, 1923 (Document 194)
- Boundary disputes (Documents 195–225)
  - Colombia and Panama (Documents 195–204)
  - Colombia and Peru (Documents 205–209)
  - Guatemala and Honduras (Documents 210–213)
  - Dominican Republic and Haiti (Documents 214–222)
  - Honduras and Nicaragua (Documents 223–225)
- The Tacna-Arica question: Opening of the arbitration and the exchange of cases by Chile and Peru (Documents 226–237)
Albania: (Documents 238–275)
- American protests against a concession to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for an alleged monopoly in Albania (Documents 238–275)
Austria: (Documents 276–279)
- Negotiations for a treaty of amity, commerce, and consular rights between the United States and Austria (Documents 276–279)
Belgium: (Documents 280–283)
- Convention and protocol between the United States and Belgium relating to American rights in East Africa, signed on April 18, 1923, and January 21, 1924, respectively (Documents 280–283)
Bolivia: (Documents 284–297)
- Reluctance of Bolivia to fulfill the contract of 1922 for a loan from American bankers (Documents 284–297)
Brazil: (Documents 298–308)
- Exchange of notes between the United States and Brazil according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation tariff treatment (Documents 298–308)
Bulgaria: (Documents 309–310)
- Naturalization treaty between the United States and Bulgaria, signed November 23, 1923 (Documents 309–310)
Canada: (Documents 311–342)
- Signing of a convention between the United States and Great Britain for the preservation of the halibut fishery in the Northern Pacific (Documents 311–326)
- Termination of the Canadian practice of granting port privileges to United States fishing vessels (Documents 327–328)
- Negotiations for a new treaty between the United States and Canada to limit naval armament on the Great Lakes (Documents 329–334)
- Canadian legislation authorizing the prohibition of the exportation of pulpwood (Documents 335–339)
- Establishment of a joint board of control to supervise the diversion of waters from the Niagara River (Documents 340–342)
Chile:
- The Tacna-Arica question.
China: (Documents 343–659)
- Collapse of the Government of Li Yuan-hung and the election of Tsao Kun to the Presidency of China (Documents 343–371)
- Unsuccessful negotiations for a Consortium loan to China for the purpose of consolidating the Chinese floating debt (Documents 372–394)
- Naval demonstration at Canton by the United States and other powers to avert seizure of the customs by the local authorities (Documents 395–438)
- Attitude of the American Government with respect to certain Chinese internal taxes (Documents 439–445)
- Concurrence by the United States in the contention by certain powers that the Boxer Indemnity payments should be made in gold currency (Documents 446–459)
- Efforts by the British and American Governments to secure from other powers acceptance of the arms embargo resolution which had been proposed at the Washington Conference (Documents 460–474)
- Amended American proposal for a mutual undertaking among the powers to refrain from assisting China in naval construction (Documents 475–478)
- Further postponement of the meeting of the Commission on Extraterritoriality in China (Documents 479–493)
- Kidnaping of railway passengers near Lincheng by bandits and consequent demands upon China by the powers (Documents 494–565)
- Amends by the Chinese Government for the killing of Charles Coltman, an American citizen, by Chinese soldiers in the presence of an American consul (Documents 566–592)
- Refusal by the United States to recognize the applicability of Chinese martial law to American citizens or to American naval vessels (Documents 593–595)
- Increase of lawlessness on the upper Yangtze River and recommendations by American officers in China to reenforce the American gunboat patrol (Documents 596–604)
- Relation of consular officers to other American officers in China (Documents 605–606)
- Final report of the president of the Inter-Allied Technical Board for the Supervision of the Chinese Eastern and Siberian Railways (Documents 607–609)
- Foreign representations dissuading Chang Tso-lin from assuming control of the land office of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Documents 610–616)
- Continued support by the United States to the Federal Telegraph Company in efforts to obtain execution of its contract with the Chinese Government (Documents 617–657)
- Rejection by Japan of the proposal by China to abrogate the agreements of May 25, 1915 (Documents 658–659)
Colombia: (Documents 660–661)
- Employment of American financial advisers by the Government of Colombia (Documents 660–661)
- Boundary dispute with Panama.
- Boundary dispute with Peru.
Costa Rica: (Documents 662–665)
- Protocol of agreement between the United States and Costa Rica relating to an interoceanic canal, and the failure of Costa Rica to ratify (Documents 662–665)
Cuba: (Documents 666–694)
- Failure of President Zayas to apply vigorously the program of reform (Documents 666–680)
- Revision of the Cuban railway-merger and ports-closing bill upon representations by the United States (Documents 681–689)
- Establishment of Federal Reserve Bank agencies in Cuba (Documents 690–694)
Czechoslovakia: (Documents 695–713)
- Exchange of notes between the United States and Czechoslovakia mutually according most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters (Documents 695–707)
- Appointment of a Czechoslovak commission to negotiate a general refunding of the indebtedness of Czechoslovakia to the United States (Documents 708–713)
Denmark: (Documents 714–724)
- Arrangement between the United States and Denmark for reciprocal exemption from income tax on shipping (Documents 714–724)
Dominican Republic: (Documents 725–768)
- Delay in holding elections in fulfillment of the plan of evacuation, and the extension of the life of the Provisional Government (Documents 725–760)
- Arrangement for the purchase of the properties of the Santo Domingo Water, Light and Power Company by Dominican municipalities (Documents 761–768)
- Boundary dispute with Haiti.
Ecuador: (Documents 769–804)
- Employment of a financial adviser by the Government of Ecuador (Documents 769–773)
- Refusal by the Government of Eucador to submit a dispute with the Guayaquil and Quito Railway to arbitration as provided in the company’s contract (Documents 774–783)
- Objections by the United States to the hypothecation of Ecuadoran revenues already pledged to the service of the Guayaquil and Quito Railway bonds (Documents 784–800)
- Efforts to liquidate the debts of the Cacao Growers Association (Documents 801–804)
Estonia: (Document 805)
- Extradition treaty between the United States and Estonia (Document 805)
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