Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 8292.

[Untitled]

Department of State,
Washington, December 4, 1909.

To the Diplomatic Officers of the United States.

Gentlemen: In pursuance of a joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved March 3, 1905, the President of the United States addressed to the president of the International Prison Congress an invitation to hold the eighth session of the congress in the United States at such time and place as might be determined by the International Prison Commission.

The invitation was duly accepted and the congress will meet at Washington, October 2–8, 1910.

The Government of the United States would be pleased to have the Government to which you are accredited represented in the forthcoming congress by delegates, and you are instructed to extend to that Government an official invitation from the Government of the United States to participate therein.

In conveying the invitation you will accompany it with a copy of the inclosed Senate Document No. 462, Sixtieth Congress, first session, in which are set forth the origin, history, scope, and object of the International Prison Congress and the program of the questions to be discussed at the meeting of the congress at Washington in 1910.

It is represented to the department by the commissioner of the United States on the International Prison Commission that it is important that the International Prison Commission at Berne should be advised not later than February next of the names of the delegates who will attend the Washington congress. You will therefore request prompt consideration of the invitation.

I am, etc.,

P. C. Knox.