 Between 450 and 600 delegates attended.1893
The panic of 1893 undermined financial backing for the congress; nevertheless, the second conference opened in August 1893 in the Grand Opera House in Los Angeles, California, with an address by John P. Irish of San Francisco and the presence of a number of foreign representatives who had responded to an appeal by the State Department to attend the meeting.They came from France, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador and New South Wales.