The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-10
HAVE A SIMILAR PLAN
Arbitration Schemes of ENGLAND
and the United States.
FOR THE PEACE CONGRESS
The Delegates Have No Great HOPES
That Their Plans Will Be Accepted.
They Are Content to Plant
the Seed

Washington, May 9.-The United
gether in the advocacy of the adoption
OF a scheme for the settlement of inter
national disputes by arbitration, which
VIII be presented to the disarmament
conference al it's meeting in The Hague
on the 10th of the present month The
American delegates, headed by Am
| bassador White, are equipped with q
fairly we'll digested plan for the execu-
ton of this long cherished programme
while the British delegates are pre-
, pared with plan which is almost iden-
tical with the American project.
The details can not be procured for
publication in advance of the presenta-
tloh OF the projects to the conference.
Ii IS known, however, that there are
essential differences between the last
plan and that embodied in the treaty
drafted by Secretary Olney and Sir
Julian PauncefOte, which failed of ac-
tlon in the senate when submitted for
ratification. The differences are rather
in the methods approved for securing
principles Of the former convention,
and it is believed on these points the
British and American propositions are
not precisely similar.
1t can not be said that the American
delegates go to the conference with
any strong expectations that their own
scheme for securing the adjustment of
disputes by arbitration. or indeed any
project of the kind, will secure the ad-
hpSiOn of b.
majority of the delegates, but they
are content to plant the seed and make
beginning which it is hoped by the
president and Secretary Hay will in
the end have substantial results.
The American delegates go commit
ted to this arbitration project more
strongly than to anything likely to
figure before the conference. Regard
ing disarmament, their instructions are
to tell the conference that the present
armament of the United States and any
within the possibilities of the future are
so far below the present minimum
armaments with which any of the
great powers of Europe are likely to
be content that there is really no rea-
son why the United States should be
called into the agreement. Other
points upon which the delegates have
been instructed are correctly referred
namely, the exemption for seizure Of
individual property and the extension
of the Red Cross rules to warlike Oper-
ations at sea. AS to the former, the
president expressed himself very
strongly in his last message to con-
gress, and the delegates go charged to
give practical effect to those 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 instructions not
mentioned in the dispatches is that re-
lating to the amelioraton of tbs horrors
of war, and with this too, the American
delegates are deeply concerned. 1t
was because Of the presidents interest
in this subject as much as for any rea-
son that the two technical experts,
Captain Mahan and Captain CroZer
We're included in the American delega-
ton, and the state department encour-
ages hope that something in this di-
rection will be accomplished at the ap-
aching conference.