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 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 154, 155. 1924. 119 CHAP. 154.—Joint Resolution Requesting the President to invite the Inter- Mw 13. 1924- parliamentary Union to meet in Washington City in 1925, and authorizing an appropriation to defray the expenses of the meeting. [Pub' R°s" N°‘ 19*] Whereas the Congress, in an Act approved June 30, 1914, requested U}u{·”fl¤r¤¤*11¤m¤¤*¤rY the President to extend an invitation to the Interparliamentary rmanibie. Union to hold its annual meeting for the year 1915 in the city V°1‘38*p"*5°‘ of Washington, and in the same Act appropriated the sum of $40,000 to defray the expenses of the said meeting; and Whereas when the World War led to repeated postponements of the said meeting the Congress repeatedly extended the appropriation: First, the Act of July 1, 1916, extended it and made it V°l‘ 39* "p‘ 2°°’1°5°‘ available for the calendar years 1916 and 1917; second, the Act of March 3, 1917, extended the appropriation and made it available for the calendar year 1918; third, the Act of April 15 1918, V°l"°’p‘527‘ extended the aippropriation and made it available for the calendar year 1919; an Whereas this appropriation, repeatedly extended, has lapsed, and no part of it having been expended, and the meeting thus arranged for in Washington City has not been held: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Re esentatines of the United States of America in Congress assembled? That the President W{,gg¤*¤é1t0;°i¤**gg•;f$ i¤ be requested to invite the Interparliamentary Union to hold its ' annua meeting for the year 1925 in the city of Washington. _ Sec. 2. That for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident §,§’$'f,‘]°62Z}j'°h°"°°' to said meeting the appropriation of $50,000, to be expended under suclh rulles anti reguliations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, is ere y authorize . Approved, May 13, 1924. CHAP. 155.—Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation for the partici- [I`1i[I?{§esi¥)45..] pation of the United States in two international conferences for the control of the traffic in habit-forming narcotic drugs. lVhereas President Roosevelt on October 14, 1907 called an Inter- d,2g“‘,@‘,,,§‘§.,‘},“§‘§,°}f,},‘§ national Commission which met in Shanghai, China, in 1909 to wg- me make an investigation of the abuses growing out of the opium °°m ` traiiic and to suggest a means for their prevention, and thus the United States, as pointed out by President Wilson in his message to Congress on April 21, 1913, “ initiated the world-wide movegient towafid " the abolition of the trailic in habit-forming narcotic rugs; an \Vhereas the International Conference at The Hague proposed by President Taft on September 1, 1909, to give international eifect and sanction to the resolutions of the Shanghai Opium Commission, resulted in the adoption of The Hague Opium Convention V¤1·38·P·1°12· of 1912 by the powers assembled, which is in full force and eifect between the nations which have ratified it; and Whereas the original convention delegated certain administrative functions to the Netherlands Government (thereby constituting the said Government an agent for the execution of the treaty), and said Government called two conferences in 1913 and 1914 to corésider problems growing out of the execution of the convention; an YVhereas certain of the powers parties thereto have vested in the League of Nations the agency or duty of executin the convention by treaty, dated June 28, 1923, article 23, of wiich provides as follows: “Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of international conventions  or hereafter to be agwd upon, the members of the league * * * will intrust the 8»gl1B with