CONTENTS. Page. II.-Inaugural address of Hon. William Wirt Henry, president III.-The Expenditures by Foreign Governments in Behalf of History, by Prof. J. Franklin Jameson... IV.-The United States and International Arbitration, by Prof. V. Some Recent Discoveries Concerning Columbus, by Presi- VI.-The History and Determination of the Lines of Demarca- tion Established by Pope Alexander VI between the Spanish and Portuguese Fields of Discovery and Colo- nization, by Prof. Edward G. Bourne... VII.-Slavery in the Territories, by President James C. Welling.. VIII.-The Enforcement of the Slave Trade Laws, by W. B. B. Du- IX.-State Sovereignty in Wisconsin, by Albert H. Sanford... X.-The Earliest Texas, by Mrs. Lee C. Harby.... XI.-George William Leete and the Absorption of New Haven Colony by Connecticut, by Dr. Bernard C. Steiner..... XIV.-Henry Clay as Speaker of the United States House of Rep- resentatives, by Miss Mary Parker Follett........... XVI.-Commerce and Industry of Florence During the Renais- sance, by Dr. Walter B. Scaife .... XVII.-Parliamentary Government in Canada: a Constitutional and Historical Study, by J. G. Bourinot..... XVIII.-Bibliography of Published Writings of Members of the ..... ... 299 I-REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 29-31, 1891. S. Mis. 173—————1 1 REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. BY HERBERT B. ADAMS, SECRETARY. The eighth annual meeting of the American Historical Association was held in Washington, December 29 to 31, 1891. There were two morning sessions at the National Museum, and three evening sessions at the Columbian University, where also convened, in different rooms at various times, the Modern Language Association, the Folk Lore Society, and the American Society of Church History. The American Forestry Association had business meetings in the Department of Agriculture and public exercises in the National Museum, following those of the Historical Association. The gathering of these five different scientific clans in the Federal city, on the very same days, was a significant sign of the times. It indicates that Washington is becoming more generally recognized as the intellectual and social capital of the nation. No other city in the American Union could attract, in successive years, the same scientific bodies that now annually assemble in the National Museum or at the Columbian University. Every association that comes once to Washington is certain to come again. Some of them, like the American Historical Association, have come to stay. Chartered by Congress, this society is now required by law to have its principal office in the District of Columbia. Its printing and business management will henceforth be in connection with the Smithsonian Institution. Although the Association may occasionally take an excursion to some Northern, Southern, or Western city, Washington is now its permanent home. The next meeting will be in Chicago, at the time of the World's Fair, in 1893. In view of coming events, which cast their Columbian shadows before, the historical paper which eclipsed all others in popular interest at the Washington meeting, and in the Associated Press reports that flashed over the whole country, was |