196.6/1077
The Secretary of State to the Italian Embassy
Memorandum
The Secretary of State refers to the memorandum of the Royal Italian Ambassador dated April 30, 1928, in which the Ambassador called attention to the provisions of Senate Bill No. 2945 relating to the payment of advance wages and allotments to seamen on foreign [Page 837] vessels and stated that the bill is in conflict with the stipulations of Article XI of the Consular Convention between the United States and Italy concluded on May 8, 1878.
The Secretary of State has the honor to inform the Ambassador that while the bill referred to was passed by the Senate on April 24, 1928, and was sent to the House of Representatives where it was referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries on April 26th, no further action in regard to it was taken before the adjournment of Congress.
In this relation the Secretary of State would bring to the Ambassador’s notice that Article XI of the Convention of 1878 was annulled by the Supplemental Consular Convention between the United States and Italy concluded on February 24, 1881,27 which substituted a new article therefor, and that the Convention of 1881 was terminated July 1, 1916, in consequence of a notice given by this Government through the American Embassy at Rome, June 21, 1915, and April 21, 1916, and the acceptance of such notice by the Italian Government.28
- Malloy, Treaties, 1776–1909, vol. i, p. 983.↩
- For correspondence on this subject, see Foreign Relations, 1915, pp. 3–10, and ibid., 1917, pp. 18–25.↩