The time and place of future conferences are to be determined by the Governing Board of the Bureau of American Republics. AMERICAN REPUBLICS: The International Bureau: Its increased efficiency. The gift of a building to it by Mr. Carnegie. The International Bureau of the American Republics, instituted at Washington in 1890 (see in Volume VI. of this work), assumed larger functions and increased importance in 1906, after the return of Mr. Root, United States Secretary of State, from his tour of visits to the South American States. The Honorable John Barrett, who had successively represented the Government of the United States in Panama, in Argentina and in Colombia, as well as at the Second Pan-American Conference, in Mexico, was made Director of the Bureau, and entered upon its duties with an exalted belief in the possibilities of good to be done in the American hemisphere by an energetic promotion of more intimate relations between its peoples. At the same time a new dignity was given to the International Union of the American Republics, embodied in the work of the Bureau, by the provision of a stately building for its use. Mr. Root had persuaded Congress to appropriate $200,000 for the site and building of such a home, to be offered to the Union, and this inadequate sum was supplemented by a generous private gift. It was easy to interest Mr. Andrew Carnegie in a project which bore so directly on the promotion of international friendliness and peace, and he offered an addition of $750,000 to the fund for the Pan-American Building. The site secured for the structure is that of the old Van Ness mansion, about half-way between the State, War and Navy Building and the Potomac River. It covers a tract of five acres, facing public parks on two sides. There the corner stone of a central seat of Pan-American coöperations and influences was laid in May, 1908, in the presence of official representatives from twenty-one American republics, and under their assembled flags. {26} AMERICAN SCHOOL PEACE LEAGUE, The. See (in this Volume) WAR, THE REVOLT AGAINST: A. D. 1908. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EQUITY. See (in this Volume) LABOR ORGANIZATION, &c.: UNITED STATES: A. D. 1902-1909. AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY (the "Sugar Trust"). See (in this Volume) COMBINATIONS, INDUSTRIAL, &c.: UNITED STATES: A. D. 1907-1909, and 1909. AMSTERDAM: A. D. 1907. Meeting of International Woman Suffrage Alliance. See (in this Volume) Elective Franchise: Woman Suffrage. AMUNDSEN, Roald: Arctic Exploration. Magnetic Pole Researches. See (in this Volume) POLAR EXPLORATION. ANAM: Deposition of the King.