Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-27
WARMLY WELCOMED.
Lord Russell Given a. Great Ova-
ton at Saratoga.

/ OAOA aG saratoga.
Enxland's Chief Justice Speaks ON Inter
national Arbitration-Praises the
United States-English People
Must Work Together.
Saratoga. N. r., Aug. e1.-No greater
ovation was ever presented to any speak
er in Saratoga than that accorded Lord
Russell, lord chief justice of England.
when he entered Convention hall Thurs
day morning to address the American
Bar association in the nineteenth annual
convention here assembled. Applause
was long continued by the audience of
4,5O0 persons. In introducing Lord Rus
sell President Storey said:
II have now the very great pleasure. not
| OF introducing, for he needs no Introduce
ton to any English-speaking lawyer. but
or presenting to you Lord Russell, CT Kill
lowen. the lord chief justice Of England,
who will deliver the annual address on
international Arbitration
Lord Russell Speaks.
AS Lord Russell stepped forward the
audience broke into unrestrained an
plause, which continued for fully a
|
saying:
my first words must be in acknowledge
ment of the signal honors done me by in
| wiling me to address you on this interest
ing occasion. You are congress cf law
yers. met here to take council, in no mar
row spirit, upon questions affecting your
profession, to consider the needs for leeis-
alton which time and experience develop:
to consider the tendencies Of legislation
state and federal. and the course Of judicial
decision" [Applause.l
Praise for the United States.
| Speaking of the formation of interna-
tional law, Lord Russell complimented
the United States thus:
1T Is not too much to say that the I'M
| doubted stream of tendency in modern in
+ ternational law to mitigate the horrors
of war, to humanize or to make less in
human its methods, and to narrow the
area of it's consequential evils, is largely
due to the policy Of your statesmen and
the moral influence Of your jurists."
Impediments to Arbitration.
Speaking of the difficulties in the way
of effective arbitration, he said:
But there are differences to which, even
as between individuals, arbitration is in
applicable-subjects which find their coun-
terpart in the affairs of nations. Men do
not arbitrate where character is at stake,
| I1OT villa duy Sell-TeSQeClINS nation readily
arbitrate on questions touching !ts ma
tional independence or affecting its honor.
again, nation may agree to arbitrate
and then repudiate its agreement Who
is to coerce it? Or, having gone to aroitra-
ton and been worsted. 1t may decline to be
bound by the award. Who is to compel it ?
'"These considerations seem to me to
| justify two conclusions. The first u.s. that
arbitration will not cover the whole field
OF International controversy, and the sec
ond, that unless and until the great now
ers of the world, in league, bind them
selves to coerce a recalcitrant member of
the family of nations-we have still TO face
the more than possible disregard by pow
| erful states of the; obligations of good
| faith and OF Justice
English People Must Work Together.
Concluding, the speaker said:
''Mr. President, began by speaking OF
the two great divisions = American and
| British-of that English-speaking world
which you and represent to-day, ana with
one more reference to them end
who can doubt the influence they pos
peace of mankind? But if this influence is
to be fully felt. they must work together
in cordial friendship. and each people in
| its own sphere of action. If they have
great power. they have also great re-
! spollsibility. No cause they espouse can
| foil; no cause they oppose can triumph.
| The future is, in large part, theirs rhev
| have the making OF history in the times
that are to come. The greatest calamity
that could befall would be strife which
| should divide them.
LET US pray that this shall never be.
Let US pray that they. always self-respect-
ing, each in honor upholding its own flag.
safeguarding its own heritage Of right,
| and respecting the rights of others, each
in it's own way fulfilling its high national
destiny. shall yet work In harmony or Tue
progress and the peace of the world
Vote OF Thanks.
Lord Russell concluded his address at
1915 o'clock. AS he closed the audi
cnce vigorously applauded, and then
Edward ]. Phelps, of Vermont, moved
that the thanks of the association be
presented to Lord Russell for the elo-
quent address which they had had the
pleasure of hearing. This was carried,
as was also the following:
Resolved, That the American Bar asso-
citation concurs with the principles enunci-
ated in the eloquent address of Lord Chief
Justice Russell. Be it further,
Resolved. That 1t be referred to the
committee on international law to recon-
mend such further cause Of internatio
| arbitration.
Robert D. Benedict, of New York,
chairman of the committee on judicial
administration and remedial procedure,
presented very voluminous report
which, in the main, favored appeal in
criminal cases.
Work Is Finished.
Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 22.-When the
American Bar association convened at