El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-29
JULY 29, 1899.
sentences pronounced by special juris
diction and all documents appertaining

sentences pronounced by special juris-
diction and all documents appertaining
thereto.
Art. %. Within three months after
the ratification of the peace confer
ence's acts each power shall designa g
persons highly versed in International
law and OF high moral standing to act
| as arbttrators. They will form court
and their full transactions will be COM
| municated bY the bureau to all the
powers. One or several powers may
agree to choose in common one or sew
eral judges. The same person may
| represent different powers. Members
of the court are to be nominated for
six years. Their terms may be re-
| newed. They will enjoy all diplomatic
privileges.
Art. "a. SiRnatory powers desiring
to apply to the arbitration court for
| the settlement of their differences shall
| choose from the general list the num-
ber of arbitrators agreed upon between
themselves.
Art. 25 and 26. The arbitration
court will habitually sit at the Hague,
and its seat can only be altered in case
of absolute necessity by agreement of
the parties. Non-signatory powers
concerned may have recourse to the
arbitration court.
Art. q. The siguatory powers con-
slider it their duty whenever an acute
conflict threatening to peace occurs be-
tween any of them to recall to the lat
ter that the arbitration court Ia open
to them.
Art. %. A permanent administra-
tive council, consisting of
the diplOma alto representatives
of the powers accredited at
10 nd Wif h ho Int
secretary as chairman, will be consi-
dered Immediately after the ratifica-
tion of the peace conference acte, and
will organize an international bureau
which will remain under its direction
and control. Said council will each
year supply the signatory powers with
a report of the arbitration courts Ia
Dor.
Articles 20 to "a merely concern the
arbitration proceedings, which will
be conducted secretly within closed
doors. Sentence only to be delivered
publicly and the court itself will decide
in what language the proceedings shall
be conducted, it being enacted that
each of the contending parties will
plead before the court as ordinary lawy-
ers do in ordinary judicial cases.
The final act EN- mbodying the results
of the international peace conference,
after eDumerating the names and
qualifications of ali the delegates, says:
SIN a series of meetings
in which the above delegates
participated, inspired throughout by
the desire to realize in the highest
possible I.easure the generous views of
its august initiator, the conference has
drawn up for the approval of the res
pective governments the series of con-
ventions and declarations appended.
Convention for the pacific settle
ment of international disputes.
Convention concerning the laws
and customs of war on land.
Convention for the adoption of laws
against the use of asphyxiating or de- |
leterious gases from balloon projec- |
tiles and for the prohibition of the use |
OF tie bullets that easily expand in the |
human"
The final act contains five express
sions of opinion as follows: |
The conference considers that
limitations of the military |
world, are greatly to besdesired for the |
increase of the material welfare of |
The conference expresses the opinion |
th at the question of the rights and du-l
ties of neutrals should be inscribed on /
the programme of q conference to be |
held at an early date.
Inc conference expresses the Optu- /
ion that questions relative to the type |
and csliber of rifles and naval artillery |
as examined by it should be the sub
ject of study by the different govern
ments with view to arriving at uni
form solution by future conference.
The conference expresses the wish
that an early convention be called to
revise the Geneva convention,
The conference has resolved that
questions relating to the inviolability
Of private property in war on land aud
the bonn mbardment of towns or villages
In naval warfare, be reserved for future
conference