Arizona republican., 1899-05-15
TO DO WITHOUT WAR
England and America for Inferna. .
 fionaI Arbitration.

washington, May 14.-1u1 O1lLeU
 States and Great Britain will stand to-
 gether in the advocacy of the adop-
 tion of scheme for the settlement of
 international oisputes by arbitration
 which will be presented to the dis
 armament conference at it's meeting n The Hague this week. The Amer ican delegates, headed by Ambassador
 White, are equipped with a fairly well
 cigested plan for the execution of this
 long-cherished project, and the Brit
 ish delegates are prepared with a plan
 which is almost identical with the
 be procured for publication tn ad-
 vance of the presentation of the pro-
 jects to the conference It is known,
 however, that there is an essential
 difference between this latest plan and that embodied in the treaty draft
 ed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
 Pauncefcte, which failed of action in
 the senate when submitted for ratifi- cation. The differences are in the methods provided for securing an inn partial adjudication rather than in the principles of the former convention, and it is believed that OH these points
 the British and American proposi- tions are not precisely similar.
 It cannot be said that the Anlencan delegates go to the conference with any strong expectations that their own scheme for securing adjusting disputes by arbitration, or, indeed, any project of the kind, will secure or even a majority of the delegates. But they are content to plant the seed and make a beginning which, it is hoped by the president and Secre- tary Hay, will in the end have sub- stantial results.
 The American delegates go com mitted to thts arbitration project much more strongly than to anything likely to figure before the conference. Even the great project which gives the conference it's name universal dis armament-is of less concern to the American delegates than the arbitra- tion proposal. On this point of dis armament their instructions are simple.
 They will simply tell the confer ence that the present armament of the United States. and any within the possibility of the future, is so for be- low the present minimum ornaments with which any of the great powers of Europe are likely to be content, that there is really no reason why the United States should be called Into the agreement.
 Other points upon which the dele gates have been instructed are cor patches from London, namely, the exemption from seizure Of individual property and the extension of the Red Cross rules to warlike op- erations at sea. AS to the former the president expressed himself very l in his latest message to con gress, and the delegates go charged ! to give practical effect to these views. | AS to the Red Cross extension. both | the United States and Spain during [ the recent war voluntarily agreed to | apply the Red Cross rules at sea.
 But another point in the instruc- tions which is not mentioned in the | cable dispatches is that relating to the amelioration of the horrors of war, and with this, too, the. American delegates are deeply concerned. It | was because of the presidents interest in this subject, as much as for any other reason, that the two technical experts, Captain Mahan, United States navy, and Captain Crozfer, United States army, were included in the American delegation. The great changes in modern weapons of war which have followed the last attempt of an international conference to treat of this subject have given the state department much encourage nent to hope that something in this direction can be accomplished at the approaching conference. ; |