Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-07
PEACE DELEGATES CHOSEN
American Participants in Disnrm-
amcnt Congress selected by
the AdniRsstrRtiou.


WASHINGTON, April S.-The secretary OF
state has announced the constitution of the I
United States delegation to the disarmament |
congress- which will neet AT The Hague in
the latter part of May. The delegation con-
sists of Andrew ID. white United States am
bassador at Berlin: stanford Newell United |
States minister tc the Netherlands Presi- |
dent Seth Low OF the Columbia university, |
New York; Captain Crozier, ordnance de- |
partment, u S. A., and Captain A. T. Ma
han, retired, U. s A. Alr Frederick Hollis |
of New York will ne secretary of the dele
cation.
The American commission. a whole, is |
regarded as an exceptionally strong body |
being made up of men well known not |
only in public and political life but as men |
of letters and international affairs. They !
are all men of Sc olarship, fine lnguists /,
and those attanmerts Is helpful in a congress
representing the nations of the world, con- !
Quoted under the diplomatic usage which |
makes French the accepted language.
Mr.. White is best known in the fields of
education and diplomacy. After graduating
at Yale class OF j3. he went to Europe
for several years to pursue his studies,
mainly at Berlin and Paris, after travelling
on foot through EuropeI After a time he
was an attache of tie United States lega-
tion at St. Petersburg. Returning to this
country, he began his university career as
professor of English literature at the Uni
versity of Michigan. Later he became the
! first president of Cornell his service con-
tinuing from 1867 to 1885, when he retired
through ill-health He was United States
commissioner to San Domingo in 1871.
| From 1879 to 1881 he was minister to Ger
many, again taking this important post
under President Mckinley. During the
administration of Mr.. Cleveland Mr.. White
was chosen as one of the Venezuelan COM
missioners, at the time when the affair was
at its most critical stage. He was also
minister TO Russia in 1882.
| Seth Low also is known as an educator.
as we'll as man of public affairs He was
graduated from Columbia university whose
president he became in 1890, later giving
| 81 900 for university buildings. He was
mayor of Brooklyn in 1881 and again in
1888, his service being marked by numerous
reforms, including the Introduction of a
civil service system in municipal affairs.
In 1897 he was an unsuccessful candidate for
mayor of Greater New York
Stanford Newell was appointed minister to
the Netherlands from Minnesota. His Sc
lection as one of the delegates was ex-
pected because he minister resident at
The Hague, where the congress is to be
held. Mr.. Newell is Il yyer of repute and
had long practiced in Paul, where he
was more of a COUNSEL, than a trial law
yer. Although he h..s been active in
politics. he never held lace until he was
appointed minister 10 ne Netherlands by
President Mckinley e-s
i. Captain = 3, tsm G,oz,el' is 9AS j. hl
most highly accomplished of the officers of
the ordnance corps. He was born in Ohio
| tint tad TO ha mi tar frOn
Kansas His father was the late Judge
Crozier, at one time a United States sena
tor from Kansas. In conjunction with Gen
eral Buffinton, the newly appointed chief
of the Ordnance department, he invented
the disappearing gun carriage, which has
been adopted by the United States govern
ment as the highest type of coast defense
weapon. General Bufinton and Captain
Crozier generously bestowed upon the
United States government all of the patent
rights they had acquired in this powerful
weapon of warfare and perhaps 1t was the
spirit of disinterestedness thus exhibited
that led the president to name General
Buff1nton as chief ordnance officer and to Sc
lect Captain Crozier as member OF this
distinguished delegation.
Captain Alfred T. Mahan is sailor,
strategist and author. Captain Mahan was
born In New York and appointed active
midshipman in the United States navy in
September 1856. He reached the grade of
lieutenant at the outbreak of the civil war
! in 1851 became a lieutenant in 1868 COM
mander in 1872 and captain, September
49, 1885. He retired November T. 1895.
His last command was that of the Chicago,
: then on the European station, and he re-
tired in order to pursue his literary work.
His most important contribution TO ltera-
ture is "The Influence of Sea Power upon
History" When it was realized that war
! with Spain was inevitable, Secretary Long
cabled promptly to Captain Mahan then in
Rome, summoning him to Washington.
Here he took his place as member of the
famous naval war board, known during its
existence as the strategy board, which
planned the program of campaigns. Since
he was retired from duty upon the war
board Captain Mahan has been living quietly
at his home in New York state.
Frederick William Hollis, appointed to act
as secretary and counsel to the delegation
Is the senior member OF the law firm OF
, Hollis Wagner & Burghard of New York
He was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania
, in 1857. He is the son of Dr. George Charles
Hollis; an eminent German Lutheran edu-
Gator, clergyman and philanthropst In
y 1873 he graduated at Columbia college. He
! then entered the Columbia law school and
was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie
O in 1880. Since then he has been in con-
a tinuous practice in New York City. He il
the author of various essays, lectures and
r travels and last year received the degree
a of LII. D.. from the University of Leipsic.