Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-09

house OF said congress and shall bear such re
| lation in general to the assembly IS the Senat,
of the United States bears to the House of Rep
| rcsentatives.
v. Those appointive delegates who shall bt
chosen by the various organizations in sym
pathy with free institutions together with the
invited representatives from the nations other
than republics, shall constitute an assembly OF
lower house Of the congress.
| vi. The sessions of the congress, the manner
OF proceeding, &C., &C., shall be in genera
analogy with the sessions and proceedings Of
dual legislative bodies in free countries.
THE GENERAL SCOPE
VII. The general scope of the proposed con.
gress shall be the consideration of the interests
of free institutions and the best means of pro-
noting the same among the nations.
VIII. By free institutions shall be understood
such organic forms of human society as are de-
| rived from an enlightened popular will ARE con-
sistent with it, and are subservent to the inter-
ests and happiness of mankind.
Ia Institutions, whether free or despotic, are
of three general kinds of classes These are:
l. Civil or political institutions.
2. Social and educational institutions proper.
8. Religious institutions.
Institutions of the latter class as such shall
not be represented in the proposed congress,
nor shall questions of religious nature be dis
cussed therein.
y. In the consideration of civil or political
institutions the congress shall deal with:
l. Such questions of constitutional and ad-
ministrative reform among the nations as may
be deemed promotive of the interests of pub
lie liberty, the rights of citizenship and the
maintenance and extension of free institutions.
z. such questions in particular as may pro-
mote the establishment of the principle of
arbitration among all civilized states instead of
the barbarous code of war.
3. Such questions as shall tend by their dis
cussion to prevent or extinguish the seventies
mi anf u, -
jects.
A. Such questions as may tend by their dis
cussion to promote the disarmament of the
nations, the dissolution of all standing armies
and the substitution therefor of the rule of
intelligence, morality and justice among the
people of the earth.
s.. Such questions by their discussion may
tend to promote and perfect international
intercourse on terms of equality and justice.
8. Such questions as by their discussion may
promote the principle of mutual advantage
among the nations in trade and commerce.
7. Such questions as by their discussion may
conduce to the diffusion of international intel
lgence.
8. Such questions as relate to the mental and
intellectual welfare of the nations, as the same
may be determined by wise provisions for the
education of the citizen, the freedom of the
press and the general diffusion of knowledge.
y. such questions as relate to the physical
welfare OF mankind, as general sanitation salu-
tary quarantine and the encouragement of
those branches OF investigation which conduce
to the discovery of new methods OF prolonging
and protecting human life.
III. Such questions in particular rs by their
discussion may tend to promote government of
the people by the people and for the people as
the-Dest attalnable form of civil and political
organization known to men.
II. Such other questions relating to the gen.
eral well being of mankind as may suggest
themselves to enlighten consideration IN the
interim between the present and the opening
OF the congress.
ENCOURAGEMENT ON ALL SIDES.
The committees have received every encour-
agement SO far in their work. Hundreds Of
letters have been received from prominent peo-
pie all over the country indorsing enthusiastic
cally the projected movement
The intention of the general committee is to
organize the Pan-Kepublic League, or to use
the words Of Henry Clay in connection with the
movement started in 1923 by Gen. Simon
Bolivar for congress of the republic nations
OF America, ''The Human Freedom League
Whatever the name the first work OF this
league will be the holding of a session during
the period of the Columbian exhibition. There
after the congresses are to assemble every three
or i've years in the great cities of the republic
world. The design is to hold the second COR
gress in Paris, the third in Rio Janeiro and the
fourth in Berne.