The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-21

Queen would lend Its ready cooperation
to give effect TO 1t. President Cleveland
officially communicated this last Iesolu-
tion to Congress, and expressed his grntl-
hoation that the sentiments OF two great
and kindred nations were thus authorl-
tatively manifested in favor of the nation
al and peaceable settlement OF lnterna-
tloDal quarIels by recourse to honoraple
arbitration. The parliaments or Den-
mark, Norway and Switzerland and the
French Chamber of Deputies have fol-
lowed suit.
1t seemed eminently desirable that
there should be some agency. by wnlcn
members of the great representative ana
legislative bodies of the world, Interest,"
ed in this far-reaching question. snouhi
meet on common ground and o1souss
the basis for common action.
With this object there has recently been
founded 1.-THE Permanent Parliamentary
Committee in favor of Arbitration and
Peace, or, AS it is sometimes called
The lnter-Parliamentary Union" This
Union has permanent organization.
Its office Is at Berne. Its mem bers are
not vain Idealsts. They are men Of the
world. They do not claim to be regener-
ators of mankind, ner do they promise
the millennium, but they are doing hon.
est and useful work in making straighter
and less difficult the path of intelligent
PIOkEScS. u6lE Ai5V IIuu1 iAcCUlA8 Wdo
held in Paris in 1859 under the presi-
denoy of the late M. Jules Simon; their
second in 1890 in London under the
presidency of Lord Hersohell, ex-Lord
Chancellor of Great Britain; their third
in 1891 at Rome under the presidency of
Signor Bianohieri; their fourth in 1899
at Bsrne under the presidency of III.
Droz; their fifth in 1894 at the Hague
under tine presidency of M. Robinson;
their sixth in 1896 at Brussels under the
presidency of M. Deschamps; and their
seventh will, 1t is arranged, be held this
year at Buda-Pesth. Speaking in this
place / need only refer in passing, to
the remarkable Pan-Amerioan Congress S
held in your States in 1890 at the instance
of the late Mr.. Blaine, directed to the
same peaceful object.
1t Is obvious, therefore, that the senti-
mont for peace and in favor Of arbitration
as the alternative for war, is growing
apaoe. How has that sen ntiment told on
the direct action Of nations? How far
nave they shaped their policy according
to its methodist The answers to these
questions are also hopeful and enoourag
Ing
Experience has shown that, over a
large area, international differences may
honorably, practically and usefully be
dealt with by peaceful arDitrament.
There havo.been since 1915 some sixty In
stances of effective International arbitra-
tioD. To thirty-two of these the United
States have been party and Great Brit
ain to some twenty of them.
There are many instances also the
introduction of arbitration clauses into
treaties. Here again tho United States
appear in the van. Amongst the first of
such treaties-if not the very f1rst-is the
Guadaloupe- Hialgo treaty of 1S4S between
the United States and Mexico. Since
that date many other countries have fol-
lowed this example. In the year 1878
Signor Manoini recommended that in all
treaties to which Italy was a party, such