ECUADOR.

Delegate:

José Maria Placido Caamaño.

Secretary:

Antonio Echeverría.

Executive Officer:

William Eleroy Curtis.

Disbursing Officer:

Haughwout Howe.

Sergeants-at-Arms:

John G. Bourke, Captain, U. S. Army."

Henry R. Lemly, First Lieutenant U. S. Army.

Surgeon:

H. C. Yarrow, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army. Consulting Engineer to the Committee on Railway Communication:

George A. Zinn, First Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers. Official Interpreters:

José Ignacio Rodriguez.

Arthur W. Fergusson.

Publication Clerk:

Cárlos Federico Adams-Michelena.

Translators:

Mary F. Foster.

Ambrosio J. Gonzalez.

Marathon M. Ramsey.

José R. Villalon.

J. Vicente Serrano.
Miss M. E. Torrence.

Official Stenographers:

Hudson C. Tanner.
Manuel Trillanes.
Mauro Durán.
Walter C. Byrne.

Stenographers:

John T. Suter, jr.
Imogen A. Hanna.

Messengers:

Charles W. Hearns.

Thomas Hughes.

Joseph Savoy.

Edward F. Quinn.

Pages:

William V. Griffin,

Frank M. Scott.

RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CON

FERENCE.

[As adopted by the Conference at the session of November 21, 27, and 29, and December 2 and 4, 1889.]

ARTICLE I.

The Conference will hold regular sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of each week, from 2 to 5 p. m., but may hold others on such days and at such hours as it may especially designate.

ARTICLE II.

In order to constitute a quorum a majority of the nations participating in the Conference must be represented at the session by at least one delegate each.

ARTICLE III.

The sessions shall be presided over by the President of the Conference, and in his absence by the Vice-Presidents in their order; or if none of these should be present, then by the Delegate whose turn it shall be to preside, under the plan adopted by the Conference on the 2d of October, 1889.

ARTICLE IV.

The delegations shall sit, and vote, in the order established by lot.

ARTICLE V.

The session having been opened, the Secretaries of the Conference shall read, in Spanish and English respectively, the minutes of the previous session. The remarks which the President or presiding officer, or any of the Delegates, may make thereupon will be noted, and the minutes will then be submitted for approval without discussion.

ARTICLE VI.

After the approval of the minutes, one of the Secretaries shall report to the Conference what matters have been presented since the last meeting, and the President or presiding officer shall refer each of them to the appropriate committee.

ARTICLE VII.

The President will then submit for discussion, one after another, the matters embraced in the order of the day. The Conference shall discuss them first in general, and such as may be approved shall be submitted for a second discussion in detail.

ARTICLE VIII.

The President or presiding officer shall concede the floor to the Delegates in the order in which they shall have demanded it.

ARTICLE IX.

The Delegates may speak each in his own language, and as soon as one of them shall cease speaking he or one of the interpreters of the Conference shall at once translate, orally, the substance of his remarks, into Spanish if the Delegate has spoken in English, or into English if he has spoken in Spanish, Portuguese, or French. The words spoken by the President or presiding officer of the Conference shall be similarly interpreted.

ARTICLE X.

Any Delegate may present to the Conference his written opinion upon the matter or point in debate, reading it or having it read by one of the Secretaries, and have it inserted in the minutes of the session in which it shall have been presented.

ARTICLE XI.

The President or presiding officer shall decide all questions of order raised during the debates of the Conference.