least two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his statements of birth, residence, and loyalty. The identity of an applicant for a passport should always be established when the application is taken. This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907. 152. Expiration of passports.-A passport issued by the department is good for a period of two years, when it expires; but it may be renewed for a further period of two years by a diplomatic officer, or by a consular officer who has received authority for the purpose from the Secretary of State. It is permissible to renew passports only once. This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907. 163. Return of passports.-As soon as an emergency passport is issued by a diplomatic or consular officer he shall transmit to the Department of State a duplicate of the application and a statement of the proof accepted by him for the issuance of the passport and of the reason why the issuance of the passport was necessary. Whenever an application for a passport is made to the Department of State through a diplomatic or consular officer he shall transmit a duplicate of the application and of the accompanying proof of the right to receive a passport to the Department of State, but he need not, unless otherwise instructed, transmit a certificate of naturalization. This paragraph shall become effective July 1, 1907. Consuls at the following places shall have the right to issue emergency passports: Adis Ababa, Abyssinia; Barbados; Calcutta; Colombo, Ceylon; Curaçao, West Indies; Nassau, New Providence; St. Michaels, Azores; Seoul, Korea; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Tahiti; Tamatave. A consul in a country where there is diplomatic representation of the United States may issue emergency passports during the temporary absence of the diplomatic representative. Emergency passports may be issued only when it is clearly shown that the person applying for the passport is about to proceed to a country to obtain admission into which a passport is obligatory. They may be issued for use with the local authorities only in case such authorities will not accept as evidence of a right to recognition as an American citizen the certificate of registration provided for in paragraph 172 of the Consular Regulations, as prescribed in the executive order of April 8, 1907. Emergency passports shall be in the form now used for regular passports, except that there shall be inserted therein the following statement: Emergency passport.-This passport is issued to that he may proceed to in order (If the passport is issued for other purposes than travel, the fact should be stated.) Diplomatic officers and all consular officers may take applications for the issuance of passports to American citizens by this department, following the rules now in force on the subject of the issuance of passports, and shall forward each application to the department, with the evidence of the right to secure the passport. In the case of an application by a naturalized citizen who presents his certificate of naturalization, this document need not be forwarded to this department, being the property of the applicant; but the application should set forth the name of the court in which the applicant was naturalized and the date and place of such naturalization. Diplomatic and principal consular officers are authorized to extend for a period of two years passports issued by this department which are about to expire and presented to them for extension. Such extension should be made by marking conspicuously across the passport the following words: Extended under the authority of the Secretary of State for two years, and not valid after (Date of expiration.) this being signed and dated by the diplomatic or consular officer and his seal affixed. A passport which has been thus extended is not valid after the date to which it was extended. A passport which has expired can not be extended, and no passport can be extended more than once. Emergency passports can not be extended. Immediately upon thus extending a passport the diplomatic or consular officer should notify the department of the name of the holder of the passport, its number and date, and the reason why the extension was asked. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, ELIHU ROOT. CRUISE OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET TO THE PACIFIC COAST. File No. 8258. No. 133.] The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Beaupré. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 31, 1907. SIR: I inclose herewith copy of a letter from the Navy Department giving the itinerary of a fleet of battle ships and a torpedo flotilla which will sail in December from the North Atlantic to the Pacific coast of the United States. You are requested to bring to the notice of the foreign office such portions of this communication as pertain to Argentine territory. I am, etc., ALVEY A. ADEE. (Same, mutatis mutandis, to Brazil, No. 25; Chile, No. 72; Great Britain, No. 510; Mexico, No. 302; Panama, No. 55; Peru, No. 19.) [Inclosure.] The Acting Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of State. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 28, 1907. SIR: I have the honor to inform you that by direction of the President 16 battle ships of the Atlantic Fleet will leave the United States in the early part of December, bound for San Francisco. They expect to coal from colliers at the island of Trinidad, on or about December 22; Rio de Janeiro, on or about January 10, 1908; Punta Arenas, on or about January 31, 1908; Callao, Peru, on or about February 16, 1908; and Magdalena Bay, on or about March 8. It is expected that liberty will be granted in Rio de Janeiro and Callao, concerning which the commander in chief, Admiral Evans, will confer with the port authorities upon his arrival. The torpedo flotilla, consisting of the auxiliary Arethusa and six destroyers, will probably touch at Culebra, Trinidad, Para, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Punta Arenas, Talcahuana, Callao, Panama, Acapulco, Magdalena, and San Francisco, but the dates upon which they will arrive can not be fixed, owing to the fact that they are subject to the conditions of the weather which may from time to time prevail. TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY, I have, etc., ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. File No. 4478. REVOLUTIONARY DISTURBANCES. Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. ¡Telegram.-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 8, 1907. (Mr. Beaupré states that very early yesterday morning a revolution took place in the city of San Juan, capital of the province of the same name. The revolutionists expelled the provincial government and established provisional government; took the government house, police station, and prison. Mr. Beaupré also states that the Federal Government intervened and, pending the decision of the arbiter, has taken control without opposition from the revolutionists.) File No. 4478/1. No. 489.] Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 8, 1907. SIR: I have the honor herewith to confirm my telegram of to-day's date, which should read as follows. (Supra.): At about 3 o'clock of the morning of the 7th instant the revolutionists, headed by Col. Carlos D. Sarimento, of the regular army, attacked the principal government buildings of the town, the government house, police station, normal school, and prison, in which the government party, warned by rumors of the subversive movement, had fortined themselves. The normal school was burned to the ground and the police station was taken. At about 8 a. m. the govchnor (Señor Godoy) and his party surrendered and the revolutionists took possession of the government house and prison. In an act signed by the leaders of the revolution the liberty and safety of the government party was guaranteed; this act reads as follows in translation: SAN JUAN, February 7, 1907. After four hours of combat between the revolutionary forces and those of the government of the province, and in the desire of avoiding the continuance of the shedding of blood and not having the means for the curing of the wounded, the government forces turn over to the revolutionary junta the police stations and the guard of the prison with their respective armaments. The governor, his ministers, the intendent of police, employees, and all the citizens that have accompanied him in his defense retire in full enjoyment of their liberty and guarantee of their lives, which the revolutionary junta assures to them on parole of honor. The revolutionists were thus in entire control and proceeded at once in exercise of the functions of government usurped to appoint officers of a provisional government, such as chief of police, chief of the prison guard, etc. The casualties of the revolution are 12 killed and 25 wounded. News of the overthrow of the government of the province of San Juan having reached the capital, Dr. Benito Villaneuva, provisional president of the senate, in exercise of the executive power (as reported in my No. 488 of the 7th instant), called a meeting of the cabinet at 10.30 a. m. After nearly three hours of deliberation it was decided that the federal government should exercise the authority accorded to it in articles 5 and 6 of the national constitution and intervene. Accordingly, a decree to that effect was issued, which reads as follows in translation: BUENOS AIRES, February 7, 1907. In view of the events that have to-day occurred in the province of San Juan and in accordance with the provisions of articles 5 and 6 of the national constitution, the provisional president of the senate, in exercise of the executive power, in general cabinet meeting, decrees: ARTICLE I. Intervention in the province of San Juan is declared. ART. II. Lieut. Col. Ramón Gonzáles, chief of the Fourth Battalion of Infantry, is appointed provisional chief of police of the intervention. ART. III. Until the interventor that is to be appointed shall proceed to the province, the minister of the interior shall give to said chief of police the necessary instructions. ART. IV. The present decree shall be reported to Congress at its next session. Let it be communicated, etc. At 3 p. m. of the same day Colonel González reported by telegraph that he had taken charge as chief of police and that the city was quiet and 100 soldiers of the Second Regiment of Cavalry of the regular army were transferred to San Juan and put at his disposal by the minister of war. It was decided to appoint interventor Dr. Cornelio Gacitúa, justice of the supreme court, and this was done by another executive decree on the evening of the same day after communicating with him by telegraph at Cordoba. As to the occasion of this movement La Nacion of to-day says, in its report of the affairs: These events have been preparing for many months. The government of Señor Godoy has for two years administered the province according to the methods that so many times have brought upon the oligarchies of the interior the condemnatory judgment of public opinion. Without respect for the letter or the spirit of the law, the overthrown administration systematically excluded from the government popular representation, made access to the polls impossible, falsified the character of the legislative power, and repressed all the natural manifestations of civic life. An editorial in the same edition of La Nacion, while lamenting the fact of resort to the dishonoring recourse of conspiracy and revolution, says: We would commit an injustice if we were to cast upon the revolutionists of San Juan the full responsibility for the events that have just taken place. 85111-FR 1907—2 More culpable than the promoters of the movement is the deposed government, which provoked it by a narrow and exclusive policy, placing the opposition party in the dilemma of accepting a shameful submission or of indicating by force their abused rights. * No one can doubt that the revolution is the fruit of the abuses committed by the official circle in the autocratic exercise of its authority in the face of the keen resistance of the spirit of the people. Some months ago the Government discovered a revolutionary conspiracy in the city of San Juan. Of this movement the same Colonel Sarmiento, above mentioned, was the leader and he was arrested. His followers, the opposition, thereupon formally applied to the National Congress asking for intervention. This request was discussed in Congress and finally laid on the table. This deprived the people of San Juan of the one alternative that offered for the adjustment of the prevailing difficulties, with the result that they have now availed themselves of the other more unfortunate alternative. I am, etc., A. M. BEAUPRÉ. File No. 4478/2. No. 492.] Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. [Extracts.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 14, 1907. SIR: Referring to my No. 489, of the 8th instant, in regard to the revolution that broke out in San Juan, capital of the province of San Juan, on the morning of the 7th instant, I have the honor to report that the condition of affairs reported as prevailing on the date of said dispatch has continued unchanged. The revolutionists seem contented with what they have obtained, namely federal intervention, and are tranquilly awaiting the outcome. Dr. Cornelio Moyano Garcitúa, appointed to intervene for the Federal Government in the province, as reported in my No. 489 above mentioned, left the capital this morning at 9 o'clock, accompanied by his assistants and secretaries. While his instructions have not been made public it is evident that he goes with ample powers. This is evident from a response of the minister of the interior to a telegram of the 11th instant from the deposed governor, Manuel J. Godoy, in which the latter reports in detail the events of the revolution and asks that the act of intervention be limited to restoring him to power. In his reply the minister, Dr. M. A. Montes de Oca, says: * The executive is firmly decided to resort to all its constitutional attributes in order to maintain internal peace, proceeding to this end with the energy and prudence which the circumstances demand. For this reason it adopted * the resolutions communicated to your excellency, and for this reason it will carry them out with unwavering rectitude * *. The interventor, whose name is a guaranty of impartiality and competence, will study the antecedents of law and fact that will permit him to decide whether the authorities of San Juan ought to be established, or whether he ought to proceed to the reorganization of its powers * In other words, whether Governor Godoy should be restored or whether new elections should be held. It is reported that Doctor Garcitúa has himself insisted on these ample powers, and both La Nacion and La Prensa editorially laud the act of the executive in investing him with them, and state that such is the only possible course in view of the facts. In an editorial |