File No. 823.5048/68.
House Resolution.
Congress of the United States.
In the House of Representatives.
62d Congress; 2d Session.]
[House Document No. 619.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be
directed, if not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit to
the House of Representatives all information in the possession of his
Department concerning the alleged existence of slavery in Peru, and
especially all information tending to show the truth or falsity of the
following statement made in an editorial in the London Times of July
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve: “The bluebook shows that in an
immense territory which Peru professes to govern the worst evils of the
plantation slavery which our forefathers labored to suppress are at this
moment equaled or surpassed. They are so horrible that they might seem
incredible were their existence supported by less trustworthy
evidence.”
Attest:
Message from the President of the United States
transmitting Report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying
papers, concerning the alleged existence of slavery in
Peru.
62d Congress; 3d Session.]
[House Document No. 1366.
Read February 7, 1913, referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
letter of transmittal.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying
papers, in response to the resolution adopted by the House of
Representatives on August 1, 1912, calling upon the Secretary of
State, “if not incompatible with the public interest,” for “all
information in the possession of his Department concerning the
alleged existence of slavery in Peru, and especially all information
tending to show the truth or falsity of the following statement made
in an editorial in the London Times of July fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and twelve: The bluebook shows that in an immense territory
which Peru professes to govern the worst evils of the plantation
slavery which our forefathers labored to suppress are at this moment
equaled or surpassed. They are so horrible that they might seem
incredible were their existence supported by less trustworthy
evidence.’”
Wm. H. Taft.
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
,
February 7, 1913
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