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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

Nicaragua:


Contents

    • Constitution of Nicaragua, promulgated January 12, 1912 (Documents 1405–1412)
      • Political Affairs; revolutionary plots; the Mena insurrection; breach of the Dawson Agreements and of the Washington Conventions; measures taken by the United States for protecting life and property of foreigners; arrest and detention of Mena; election by direct popular vote of Adolfo Díaz as Constitutional President from January 1, 1913 (Documents 1413–1475)
        • Financial affairs; loan convention between Nicaragua and the United States submitted to the Senate, ratified by Nicaragua; loans to Nicaragua by American bankers; good offices of the United States (Documents 1476–1517)
          • Naturalization convention between the United States and Nicaragua (Document 1518)
            • Visit of the Secretary of State to Nicaragua (Documents 1519–1531)
              • Relief of famine in Nicaragua (Documents 1532–1543)

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              Contents

              • Message of the President, annual
              • List of papers, with subjects of correspondence
              • Circulars:
                • Territorial integrity of American States (Document 1)
                • Interchange of professors and students among the universities of the American States (Document 2)
                • Invitation to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1915 (Document 3)
                • Death of the Vice President, James S. Sherman (Document 4)
              • Argentina:
                • Apprehension of fugitives from justice of foreign countries (Document 5)
              • Austria-Hungary:
                • Copyright convention between the United States and Hungary (Document 6)
              • Belgium:
                • Removal of discrimination against American lubricating oils (Documents 7–15)
              • Brazil:
                • Message of the President, Marshal Hermes R. da Fonseca, to the Congress (Document 16)
                • American international law; report of the United States delegates to the International Commission of Jurists at Rio de Janeiro (Document 17)
              • Chile:
                • Permission of Congress to a United States Army officer to accept service under a foreign government (Documents 18–21)
              • China:
                • Revolution; abdication of the Manchu rulers; establishment of a provisional republican government; concerted action of the Powers; correspondence concerning recognition of the Republic of China (Documents 22–115)
                • Chinese loan negotiations; conclusion of the Hukuang Railway loan; correspondence concerning proposed currency-reform, industrial-development, and reorganization loans; current-expense advances
                  • Hukuang Railway Loan.
                  • Currency Reform And Industrial Development Loans. (Documents 116–164)
                  • Reorganization Loan. Currency-Reform and Industrial-Development Loan. Current-Expense Advances. (Documents 165–252)
                • Indemnity payments (Documents 253–256)
                • International plan for defense of foreign settlements under the Final Protocol of 1901. (Documents 257–286)
                • Claims of American citizens against China; joint procedure of the Powers for presentation of claims (Documents 287–289)
                • Asylum requested at the American Legation; temporary refuge offered (Documents 290–293)
                • Search of foreign merchant vessels by rebel forces for contraband of war (Documents 294–297)
                • Arrangement between the United States and France for reciprocal protection in China of literary and artistic property (Documents 298–300)
                • Registration of the property of foreigners in China (Document 301)
                • Adoption of a national flag (Document 302)
                • First International Opium Conference —International Opium Convention And Protocol De Cloture. (Documents 303–309)
              • Colombia:
                • Message of the President, Don Carlos E. Restrepo, to the Congress, July 20, 1912. (Document 310)
                • Claim of Gonzalo Ramos Ruiz v. the United States (Documents 311–312)
              • Costa Rica:
                • Message of the President, Don Ricardo Jiménez, to the Congress, May 1, 1912. (Document 312a)
                • Naturalization convention between the United States and Costa Rica (Document 313)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Costa Rica (Documents 314–319)
              • Cuba:
                • Veteranista agitation; attitude of the United States (Documents 320–334)
                • Negro uprising; attitude of the United States; protection of foreign colonies (Documents 335–387)
                • Assault upon the American Chargé d’Affaires (Documents 388–402)
                • Proposal of France, Germany, and Great Britain to arbitrate with Cuba certain insurrectionary claims of their nationals arising prior to 1898 (Documents 403–414)
                • Naval station at Guantánamo (Documents 415–421)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Cuba (Documents 422–424)
                • Raising of the wreck of the U. S. S. “Maine”. (Documents 425–436)
                • Zapata swamp concession (Documents 437–457)
              • Denmark:
                • Imposition in the United States of an inheritance tax on nonresident Danish heirs; application of article 7 of the treaty of 1826 between Denmark and the United States (Documents 458–469)
                • Death of King Frederik VIII and accession of King Christian X (Documents 470–477)
                • Presentation of a park to the Danish Government by American citizens of Danish descent (Documents 478–482)
              • Dominican Republic:
                • Message of the President, Don Eladio Victoria, to the Congress, February 27, 1912. (Document 483)
                • Political affairs: border warfare with Haiti; maintenance of the status quo; insurrection; resignation of President Victoria; election of President Adolfo Nouel; good offices of the United States. (Documents 484–547)
                • Arbitration of boundary dispute between the Dominican Republic and Haiti; good offices of the United States. (Documents 548–562)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to the Dominican Republic (Documents 563–568)
              • Ecuador:
                • Political affairs: insurrection; closure of ports; measures to protect American interests; request for asylum at American Legation and Consulate; attitude of the United States; succession of Provisional Presidents Freile Zaldumbide and Baquerizo Moreno; election and inauguration of President Plaza (Documents 569–599)
                • Claims of the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Co. against Ecuador; attitude of the United States; proposal of Ecuador to arbitrate (Documents 600–623)
                • Sanitation of Guayaquil; proposal by Ecuador of a convention with the United States; visit to Guayaquil of a United States inspection commission (Documents 624–642)
                • Attacks on Chinese citizens; good offices of the United States (Documents 643–650)
              • France:
                • Presentation by France to the United States of a bust of “La France” at the Champlain celebration (Documents 651–656)
              • Germany:
                • Wireless telegraph convention between the United States and other Powers (Document 657)
              • Great Britain:
                • Panama Canal tolls; exemption of vessels in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls, and other features of the Panama Canal act of August 24, 1912; objections thereto of the British Government (Documents 658–665)
                • North Atlantic coast fisheries arbitration; agreement between the United States and Great Britain adopting, with certain modifications, the rules and method of procedure recommended in the award of 1910. (Document 666)
                • Arbitration of pecuniary claims
                • Wreck of the British vessel Titanic; consular disposition of effects of the deceased; recognition of the services of Captain Rostron. (Documents 667–673)
                • Death of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador to Great Britain (Documents 674–683)
              • Guatemala:
                • Financial affairs; demand of Great Britain for restitution of the coffee revenues; proposal of a new bond issue; good offices of the United States (Documents 684–699)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Guatemala (Documents 700–702)
              • Haiti:
                • Message of President Jean Jacques Leconte to the Congress; April 1, 1912. Report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. (Document 703)
                • Abrogation of the right of Syrians to trade in Haiti; rights of American citizens of Syrian birth (Documents 704–722)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Haiti (Documents 723–730)
                • Death of President Leconte and recognition by the United States of President Auguste (Documents 731–734)
              • Honduras:
                • Financial affairs; proposed loan convention between Honduras and the United States; proposed loan contracts; good offices of the United States; arbitration proposal (Documents 735–772)
                • Extradition convention between the United States and Honduras (Document 773)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Honduras (Documents 774–784)
              • Italy:
                • Termination of the war between Italy and Turkey; sovereignty of Italy over Libya; extraterritorial rights of the United States. (Documents 785–787)
              • Japan:
                • Death of Emperor Mutsuhito; accession to the throne of Emperor Yoshihito (Documents 788–799)
                • Land laws of Chosen; validity of consular registration of title (Documents 800–805)
                • Abandonment of the proposed international exposition at Tokyo. (Documents 806–807)
              • Liberia:
                • Message of the President to the Legislature (Document 808)
                • Disturbances on the Anglo-Liberian frontier (Documents 809–827)
                • Reorganization of the Liberian Frontier Force under American officers (Documents 828–838)
                • Financial affairs; conclusion of the refunding loan of 1912; To Refund The Registered External And Internal Debt Of Liberia As of December 31, 1910.—constitution of the customs receivership (Documents 839–892)
              • Luxemburg:
                • Death of Grand Duke William Alexander and accession to the throne of Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide (Documents 893–900)
              • Mexico:
                • Messages of the President, Francisco I. Madero, to the Congress (Documents 901–902)
                • Political affairs.—Revolution: Measures taken by the United States to prevent breach of neutrality laws and to protect American life and property in Mexico. (Documents 903–1218)
                • Measures to prevent firing across the boundary line by Mexican troops (Documents 1219–1245)
                • Permission for Mexican troops to pass over American soil (Documents 1246–1273)
                • Closure of the port of Vera Cruz (Documents 1274–1279)
                • Display of the American flag by American consular officers in Mexico (Document 1280)
                • Presentation of a statue of George Washington to Mexico by American citizens residing in Mexico. (Document 1281)
                • Taxation of foreigners by insurrectionary forces exercising de facto authority (Documents 1282–1290)
                • Discrimination against American citizens employed on Mexican railroads (Documents 1291–1312)
                • The rights of asylum and of temporary refuge (Documents 1313–1316)
                • Protection of Chinese subjects in Mexico by American diplomatic and consular officers; temporary refuge granted; waiver of Exclusion Act.. (Documents 1317–1325)
                • Claims of American citizens against Mexico for damages arising from revolutionary disturbances. (Documents 1326–1399)
              • Morocco:
                • Relation of American protégés to the French authorities at Fez; good offices of the British Consul in the case of Mohammed ben Lehsen el Filaly (Documents 1400–1404)
              • Nicaragua:
                • Constitution of Nicaragua, promulgated January 12, 1912 (Documents 1405–1412)
                • Political Affairs; revolutionary plots; the Mena insurrection; breach of the Dawson Agreements and of the Washington Conventions; measures taken by the United States for protecting life and property of foreigners; arrest and detention of Mena; election by direct popular vote of Adolfo Díaz as Constitutional President from January 1, 1913 (Documents 1413–1475)
                • Financial affairs; loan convention between Nicaragua and the United States submitted to the Senate, ratified by Nicaragua; loans to Nicaragua by American bankers; good offices of the United States (Documents 1476–1517)
                • Naturalization convention between the United States and Nicaragua (Document 1518)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Nicaragua (Documents 1519–1531)
                • Relief of famine in Nicaragua (Documents 1532–1543)
              • Panama:
                • Supervision of elections by the United States (Documents 1544–1585)
                • Inauguration of President Porras (Documents 1586–1591)
                • Railway concessions to foreigners and their relation to the Canal; attitude of the United States (Documents 1592–1622)
                • Wireless telegraph installation in Panama; treaty rights of the United States (Documents 1623–1659)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to the Republics of Central America and the Caribbean Sea (Documents 1660–1669)
                • Assault on American citizens in Panama (Documents 1670–1687)
                • Reinstatement of police officers dismissed at request of the United States. (Documents 1688–1691)
              • Paraguay:
                • Political affairs: insurrection of February–March, 1911; coup d’état of July, 1911; various insurrections November 1911 to May 1912; presidential successions of Gondra, Jara, Rojas, Peña, Navero, and Schaerer; recognition of President Schaerer by the United States (Documents 1692–1716)
              • Peru:
                • Settlement of boundary dispute between Bolivia and Peru. (Documents 1717–1718)
                • Sanitation of Iquitos; employment of American engineers; good offices of the United States (Documents 1719–1734)
              • Russia:
                • Extension by Russia of the three-mile limit of territorial waters to twelve miles for customs purposes and control of fisheries (Documents 1735–1756)
              • Salvador:
                • Political disturbances; attitude of the United States (Documents 1757–1773)
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Salvador. (Documents 1774–1790)
                • The coat of arms and the flag of Salvador (Document 1791)
              • Turkey:
                • War between Turkey and Montenegro, Servia, Bulgaria, and Greece; protection of American interests; good offices of neutral powers (Documents 1792–1838)
              • Venezuela:
                • Visit of the Secretary of State to Venezuela (Documents 1839–1859)
              • International conferences and congresses held in the United States:
                • Ninth International Red Cross Conference
                • Twelfth International Congress of Navigation
                • Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry
                • International Conference on Mine Explosions
                • Ninth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
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