"The Bureau of the American Republics will be governed under the supervision of the Secretary of State of the United States, with the cooperation and advice of four representatives of the other Republics composing the International Union, the five persons indicated to constitute an Executive Committee, of which the Secretary of State is to be ex-officio Chairman, or, in his absence, the Acting Secretary of State. The other four members of the Executive Committee shall be called to serve in turn, in the alphabetical order of the official names of their nations in one of the four languages of the Union, previously selected by lot at a meeting of the representatives of the Union. At the end of each year the first of these four members shall retire, giving place to another representative of the Union, in the same alphabetical order already explained, and so on until the next period of succession." {11} "The interest taken by the various States forming the International Union of American Republics in the work of its organic bureau is evidenced by the fact that for the first time since its creation in 1890 all the republics of South and Central America are now [1899] represented in it. The unanimous recommendation of the International American Conference, providing for the International Union of American Republics, stated that it should continue in force during a term of ten years from the date of its organization, and no country becoming a member of the union should cease to be a member until the end of said period of ten years, and unless twelve months before the expiration of said period a majority of the members of the union had given to the Secretary of State of the United States official notice of their wish to terminate the union at the end of its first period, that the union should continue to be maintained for another period of ten years, and thereafter, under the same conditions, for successive periods of ten years each. The period for notification expired on July 14, 1899, without any of the members having given the necessary notice of withdrawal. Its maintenance is therefore assured for the next ten years." _Message of the President of the United States. December 5, 1899._ AMERICANISM: Pope Leo XIII. on opinions so called. See (in this volume) PAPACY: A. D. 1899 (JANUARY). AMNESTY BILL, The French. See (in this volume) FRANCE: A. D. 1900 (DECEMBER). ANARCHIST CRIMES: Assassination of Canovas del Castillo. See (in this volume) SPAIN: A. D. 1897 (AUGUST-OCTOBER). Assassination of the Empress of Austria. See (in this volume) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1898 (SEPTEMBER). Assassination of King Humbert. See (in this volume) ITALY: A. D. 1899-1900; and 1900 (JULY-SEPTEMBER). ANATOLIAN RAILWAY, The.