The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-24

Virginia.. Randolph Tucker.
Tennessee-Judge D. M. Key.
sota-Ex- Governor Pillstury.
California-Horace Davis.
Kentucky-Alexander T. Humphrey
New York-William F. Dodge, 1.
Chamberlain, John B. Moore, George
l.. Rives Carl Schurz.
Illinois-Lyman Gage, William c.
Gray, w A. Fuller.
Massachusetts - Charles Francis;
Adams, President Eliot of Harvard
University; Edward Atkinson.
Louisiana-Charles e. Turner.
Connecticut-Lincoln E. Baldwin.
! Maine-Josiah Crosby
/ Georgia-Flening u. Rignon
New Jersey-Chancellor McGill.
Alabama-Oscar r. Hundley.
Ohio-W H Taft.
The report of the committee on reso-
iutions and a general discussion there
on, was the business of the evening
session. President Angel of the Uni
versfty of Michigan presented the re-
port. which is as follows:
This national convention of Ameri-
can citizens assembled at Washington,
April %, 1896, to promote
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION,
profoundly convinced that experience
has shown that war, as a method Of
determining disputes between nations,
is oppressive in its operation, uncer-
tain and unequal in its results and
productive of immense evils, and that
the spirit and humanity of the age
as well as the precepts of religion,
require the adoption of every practi-
cable means for the esta blishment of
reason and justice between nations;
and,
Considering that the people of the
United States and the people of Great
Britain, bound together by ties of
common language and literature, of
like political and legal institutions, and
of many mutual interests, and ami
mated by a spirit of devotion to law
and justice, have on many occasions. by
recourse to peaceful and friendly arbi-
tration, manifested their just desire to
substantiate reason for force in the
settlement of their differences, and to
establish a reign of peace among ma
tons.
THAT the common sense and enlight-
ened public opinion of both nations is
utterly averse to. any further war be-
tween them; and
THAT the same good sense, rein
forced by common principles of hu-
manfty,
RELIGION AND JUSTICE,
requires the adoption of a permanent
method for the peaceful adjustment
of international Controversies, which
method shall not only provide for the
uniform application of principles of
law and justice in the settlement of
their own differences, but shall also by
its example and its results, promote the
peace and progress of all peoples.
Does hereby adopt the following
resolutions:
'First-That in the judgment of this
conference, religion, humanity and JUS
tice, as we'll as the material interests
of civilized society, demand the imme-
date establishment between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain of
permanent system of arbitration.
'Second-That it is earnestly recon-
mended to our government so soon as
it is assured of a corresponding dispo-
sition on the part of the British gov
eminent to negotiate treaty provid-
ing for the widest practicable applica-
ton of the method of arbitration to
international controversies.
this conference be appointed to
president OF the United States
a memorial respectfully urging the
taking of such steps on the part of the
United States as will best conduce to
the end in view.
Charles Dudley Warmer, the first
speaker, said: 1T is time we passed
the colonial period and took such a po-
sition as our strength, our progress and
our Christianity entitle US to. 1t is fit
that this nation should be a leader in
this movement, for it is cosmopolitan
nation"
Mr. Henry Hitchcock, of st. Louis.
explained that the committee had seen
good reasons why a specific plan should
not be recommended but the details
left to governments.
A discussion arose over the question
whether other nations besides Great
britain should be included in the res
buttons.
Mr.. Graham of Virginia offered an
amendment as follows: And that such
a system be as far as possible extended
to embrace other civilized nations"
The amendment was carried, and the
resolution adopted.
The committee selected to prepare q
memorial for presentation to the presi-
dent was Messrs. Edmunds, Angel
Gardiner Hubbard of Washington, eX-
minister to Spain Curry and Henry
Hitchcock of St. Louis.
In the afternoon a reception was
given the delegates at the residence of
Hon. John w. Foster