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United States army, July 21, 1902. In November, 1902, he was appointed special commissioner to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with Cuba; and the treaty was signed at Havana, December 11, 1902. He was appointed a member of the Army war college board, July 1, 1902, and president of the college, August 15, 1903. On November 16, 1903, he was appointed assistant chief of staff. United States army. General Bliss was elected a member of the Metropolitan, the Army and Navy and the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, District of Columbia. He was affiliated with the Baptist denomination in religious belief and worship. He translated from the Russian "Interior Ballistics," and on "The Resistance of Guns to Tangential Rupture" — works which were published by the war department. He was married May 24, 1882, to Eleanor E., daughter of the Reverend George W. Anderson of Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and they have two children, both living in 1905 — Eleanor Frances Bliss and Edward Goring Bliss.