House Doc. No. 1043, 62d Cong., 3d
sess.
A similar estimate was transmitted to Congress at the request of the
Secretary of State on July 2, 1912 (H. Doc. No. 861, 62d Cong., 2d
sess.), for inclusion in the general deficiency bill, but was not so
acted upon by Congress, and the Secretary of State renews the estimate
at this time with a view to its inclusion in an urgent deficiency
bill.
[Inclosure.]
The Secretary of State
to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Department of State,
Washington,
October 28, 1912.
Sir: On June 29 of this year I had the
honor to address you requesting you to be good enough to submit to
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, with a view to its
inclusion in the general deficiency bill, an item appropriating
$25,000 to enable this Government to continue its efforts to
mitigate the opium, morphine, and other allied drug evils. In
accordance with, my request, on July
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2 you addressed the Speaker of the House of
Representatives in the above sense. The Congress, however, failed to
include in the general deficiency bill the item in question.
In my letter it was pointed out that diplomatic and economic
difficulties might make necessary the holding of another conference
at The Hague in the near future, at which final action on the
questions involved would be taken. It is now quite certain that a
concluding conference will be held, convening early in the coming
year, and bearing in mind the prominence of this Government in the
international movement looking to the eradication of these drug
evils, bearing in mind indeed that it was on the initiation of this
Government that there was held, first, the international commission
to study the various aspects of the question, and then the
international conference of last winter, to finish the work of which
the coming conference is to be called, the absolute necessity of the
appropriation I am now requesting is apparent. The failure of the
Congress to make this appropriation means the failure of this
Government to assist in carrying out the work which it initiated, a
work which it is manifestly pledged to conclude.
With a view to its inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill, I
therefore have the honor to request you again to submit to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives the following item of
appropriation:
To enable this Government to continue its efforts to mitigate
if not entirely stamp out the opium, morphine, and other
allied drug evils by further investigations and proceedings
and through another international conference, to make
effective the results heretofore accomplished, twenty-five
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to
be expended under the direction of the Secretary of
State.
I have the honor to transmit herewith copies of Senate Document No.
733, Sixty-second Congress, second session; of House Document No.
861 of the same Congress, and of your letter of July 10 to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives. I have the honor to be,
sir,
Your obedient servant,
Note.—The Netherlands Government on
December 31, 1912, prepared a table showing the dates of
signature of the “Protocol of signature of the powers not
represented at the conference,” as far as such signing had
progressed up to and including December 31, 1912, as follows:
Costa Rica, April 25; Mexico, May 15; Guatemala, June 17;
Belgium (with reservation as to the Belgian Congo), June 18;
Luxemburg, June 18; Panama, June 19; Ecuador, July 2; Honduras,
July 5; Salvador, July 30; Haiti, August 21; Venezuela,
September 10; Brazil, October 16; Argentina, October 17; Spain,
October 23; Dominican Republic, November 12; Paraguay, December
14; Denmark, December 17. (File No. 511.4A1/1355.)