work of future conferences; to disseminate through each
American country a knowledge of the affairs, the sentiments
and the progress of every other American country; to promote
better communication and more constant intercourse; to
increase the interaction among all the Republics of each
upon the others in commerce, in education, in the arts and
sciences, and in political and social life, and to maintain
in the city of Washington a headquarters, a meeting place, a
center of influence for the same peaceful and enlightened
thought and conscience of all America.

I feel sure of your hearty sympathy in the furtherance of
this undertaking, so full of possibilities for the peace and
the prosperity of America and of mankind, and I appeal to
you in the same spirit that has actuated your great
benefactions to humanity in the past to provide for the
erection, upon the site thus to be supplied by governmental
action, of a suitable building for the work of the Union,
the direction and control of which has been imposed by our
respective Governments upon the Governing Board, of which I
have the honor to be Chairman.

With great respect and esteem, I am, my dear Mr. Carnegie,

Very sincerely yours,

ELIHU ROOT,

_Secretary of State and ex officio Chairman of the Governing
Board of the Bureau of American Republics._

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the action of the Secretary of
State, as Chairman of this Board, in sending the aforesaid letter be,
and it hereby is, approved.

_Mr. Carnegie to Mr. Root._
NEW YORK, January 1, 1907.

HON. ELIHU ROOT.

_Secretary of State and ex officio Chairman of the Governing Board of
the Bureau of South American Republics, Washington, D. C._

DEAR SIR: I am greatly pleased that you and your colleagues of
the South American Republics have done me the honor to suggest that I
might furnish a suitable home in Washington for the Bureau of American
Republics.

The approval of your application by the Governing Board of the
International Bureau and President Roosevelt's hearty expressions of
satisfaction are most gratifying.

You very kindly mention my membership of the first Pan American
Conference and advocacy of the Pan American Railway, the gaps of which
are being slowly filled. The importance of this enterprise impresses
itself more and