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THE OPIUM EVIL.
Since June, 1908, the Congress, on the request of the Executive, has appropriated $45,000 to enable the Government to secure interna- tional and national action for the mitigation or suppression of the evils connected with opium. Such international action has been secured at an expense wholly at variance with the large revenue which accrued to the Government as the result of the legal importa- tion of prepared opium. This supply of $45,000 has been adminis- tered more than economically, and has enabled the Government to support for four years a commission composed from time to time of from one to three members, to send three delegates to an Interna- tional Opium Commission in the Far East, and Tater three delegates and the necessary secretaries to an International Opium Conference at The Hague. Therefore, it is the mature conclusion of those who have, under the Secretary of State, been intrusted with the work connected with the national and international aspects of the opium question that the Congress, having financially supported the Execu- tive in its successful effort to ameliorate the international aspects of a great evil by the cooperation of 12 States extending over a period of four years, that the Congress should speedily consider and pass the legislation so urgently needed to redeem the position of this Gov- ernment, and to place it in the advanced line achieved in domestic legislation by a majority of the interested nations, and now formally agreed to by a conference composed of the delegates of 12 States representing the highest civilization of the West and East.
We have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servants,
HAMILTON Wright,
On behalf of the American Delegates.
FREDERIC L. HUIDEKOPER, Secretary to the American Delegation.
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INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION.
His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia in the name of the German Empire; The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the Emperor of China; The President of the French Re- public; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Siam, being desirous to take one step further in the way marked out by the International Commission at Shanghai in 1909; resolved to pursue progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine, as well as drugs prepared or derived from these substances giving rise or which may give rise to analogous abuses; taking into consideration the necessity and the mutual profit of an international understanding on this point; being convinced that they
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will meet in this humanitarian effort the unanimous adhesion of all the nations interested, have resolved to conclude a convention for this purpose and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit:
His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia: His Excellency Mr. Félix de Müller, His present privy counsellor, his envoy extraor- dinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague; Mr. Delbrück, His superior privy counsellor; Dr. Grunenwald, his counsellor of lega- tion; Dr. Kerp, his privy counsellor, director at the Imperial health office; Dr. Rössler, imperial consul at Canton.
President of the United States of America: Bishop Charles II. Brent; Dr. Hamilton Wright; Mr. II. J. Finger.
His Majesty the Emperor of China: His Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Berlin.
The President of the French Republic: Mr. Henry Brenier, inspector of the agricultural and commercial services of Indo-China; Mr. Pierre Guesde, administrator of the civil services of Indo-China.
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G. C. M. G., member of the privy council; Sir William Stevenson Meyer, K. C. I. E., chief secretary of the Government of Madras; Mr. William Grenfell Max- Müller, C. B., M. V. O., his counsellor of embassy; Sir William Job Collins, M. D., deputy lieutenant of the county of London.
His Majesty the King of Italy: His Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Calvello, his ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague.
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: His Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague; Dr. Tomoe Takagi, engineer of the general government of Formosa; Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki, technical specialist attached to the laboratory of hygienic service.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands: Mr. J. T. Cremer, her former minister of the colonies, president of the Dutch Commercial Co.; Mr. C. Th. van Deventer, member of the first chamber of the States General; Mr. A. A. de Jongh, former inspector general and chief of the opium régie service in the Dutch Indies; Mr. J. G. Scheurer, member of the second chamber of the states generel; Mr. W. G. van Wettum, inspector of the opium régie in the Dutch Indics.
His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia: Mirza Mahmoud Khan, secretary of the Persian legation at The Hague.
The President of the Portuguese Republic: His Excellency Mr. Antonio Maria Bartholomeu Ferreira, envoy extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary at The Hague.
His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias: His Excellency Mr. Alexandre Savinsky, his master of ceremonies, his present counsellor of state, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Stockholm.
His Majesty the King of Siam: His Excellency Phya Akharaj Var- adhara, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at London, The Hague, and Brussels; Mr. Wm. J. Archer, C. M. G., his counsellor of Legation;
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