New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-06
IHE LAW OF NATIONS.
DIsTINGUIGHED VISITORS TO AMERICA
PRIVATE PROPERTY IN WAR TINE.

TIL" English delegation which Is TO attend
the approaching conferences OF the American
Bar Association and the International Law AS
sociation at Buffalo is IN influential one. 1t is
headed 10y the Hon Sir william Ram Ken
ncdy Justice OF the Queens Bench Division,
High Court OF Justice, who will read
paper before the American Bar Association
and deliver the inaugural address as chair
or the eighteenth conference of the Inter
national Law Association. He is Cambridge
man. ard has an honorable record at the uni
vcrsity rs n medal winner and senior classic
He MAS called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn
and entering into active practice in Liverpool
mad. a speciality Of maritime and commercial
law lie wrote learned work on Law Of civil
Salvage" which has been accepted as stand
ard treatise on n complex branch OF law. In
politics Ne was an earnest Liberal. and unsur-
cessCully contested Birkcnhcad in two elections
and 81 scqucnuy st. Hclcns. but has never
succeeded in entering Parliament After taking
SILK in London. he was appointed to the Queens
Bench by Lord IcrscEcl. This was the only
appointment to the bench maze By the Home
Rule Lord Chancellor.
Justice Kennedy is one Of the youngest men
on the queens Bench being in his nfty-fourth
year ard at the maturity OF his powers. As a
on the bench he has proved himself to be a
sound. conservative jurist. His scholarly tastes
which were developed at Cambridge. have en-
abed him to write a standard work OF law, and
have also interested him in those abstract ques-
tons which are considered at international law
conferences. He will preside with keen intelu
gence and stately dignity over the Buffalo con-
ference for he is prominently a student OF
al Ir.a Iovp IIu 10
u sister OF Sir William Richmond. r. a.
M. Joseph Walton O. c.. who will accompany
Justice Kennedy to America. was educated at
the Jesuit College OF Stonyhurst. a sincere Ro-
man Catholic In religion and an uncompromisng
Radical in politics, he has not secured place
on the English bench to which his eminent tall
entS as a barrster have entitled him. lie prac
used FOR several years in Liverpool. the great
school Of English commercial law ana is one
Of the leaders OF the English bar. with an i'm
mems practice in London. In his own special
~. which is maritime and company law. he is n
strong advocate with remarkable lucidity Of
mind. and he Is one OF the most genial men In
the profession. lie will take an important part
in the discussions u the Conference OF Intcrna-
tonal Law. and viii also read a paper on
Illegal Education" before the American Bar
Association.
Mr. Thomas Gilbert Carver. @ G. IL another
delegate who will take an active part In the
Buffalo conference. lie took high rank at st
Johns College. Cambridge. being brackcted as
eighth wrangler. and practiscd law for seven
teen years in Liverpool before coming up to
LONDON. where he has Won great reputation
In commercial and maritime cases lie has an
acute mind and is profound student OF law
His chief interest In the conference lies In the
adoption OF new code Of rules In marine in
surance. by which American English and Con
tinental practice may be brought into accord
and uniformity without legislation. The system
which he advocates deals with points on which
serious differences occur I'm IA" law and prac-
tce OF maritime countries. and II the proposed
rules are incorporated In policies viii operate
by contract like the York-Antwcrp rules. to
prevent conflicts in marine insurance law Mr.
Carver took a prominent part in the last con-
ference OF the international Law Association,
and he "i explain his new rules at both meet
ings u be held in buffalo II he be properly
supported by the leading companies as well as
the delegates the Insurance laws Of the world
may b. smplincd and reformed by the april
cation OF the Buffalo rules to the contracts Of
marine policies.
Thu conference viii receive and discuss re-
ports Of committees on international arbtra-
lion and foreign Judgments ana viii take up.
In addition 70 the proposed rules OF marine in
suranCc various other subjects such as i'm
munity Of private property at sea from capture
during war the I,hodan law. protection of in
dustrial property. the United States IIarter act.
law suitable to subject peoples. and liens priv
neged claims on property. Two Of these topics.
arbitration and the protection Of private prop
in consequence Of tho attention paid TO them at