To study political, social, and economic conditions in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a dispatch from the American charge d'affaires at Tokyo, Japan, together with copies of the inclosures therewith, reporting that on the 18th of October, 1917, a party of five members of the lower house of the Japanese Diet would sail from Yokohama for the United States for purpose of studying political, social, and economic conditions in the United States.