The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-01
A SCORE OF DELEGATES
Present at the Meeting of the In
ternational Law Association.
A COURT OF ARBITRATION,
Report of the Committee Adopted by
the observation-disclosures Address
Delivered by Hon. Sir Will
lam Kennedy.

Buffalo, Aug. 31.-The 18th annual
conference of the International Lawy
association opened to-day with scarce1
~ a score of delegates present In the
audience were the wives and daugh-
ters OF number of the British law
yers. The conference was called to
order by Joseph G. Alexander, @. c., of
London. Sir William S. Kennedy pre-
sided at the meeting, Senator Charles
F. Henderson acting in the capacity
of honorary president Sherman S.
Rogers delivered the address of well
come
Officers were elected as follows Sir
Richard E. Webster, attorney general
for England, president; Senator c. F.
Henderson of Nebraska, honorary pres
ident; Hon. Sir William Rand Ken
nedy, president of the conferences; w.
G. Endicott, judge of the supreme court
of Massachusetts, Bancroft Davis and
Carl Schurz, vice presidents for the
United States; Right Hon. Sir John
Tubbuck, treasurer; James Alexander
and George G. Phillmore, both of Lon
don, secretaries.
Hon. Sir William Kennedy delivered
his inaugural address. He spoke of the
necessity for an adjustment of interna-
tional maritime insurance, the question
of foreign judgments and the question
of immunity of private property in time
of war.
DR.. Evans Dosby, secretary Of the
peace section, London presented the re-
port of the committee on arbitration
The conference accepted the report
adopted by the executive council on
July Is, 1S99 of the special committee
appointed at the London conference of
1898, which has in accordance with the
direction of the Brussels conference in
1891, presented a scheme for the forma-
tion of the court of international arbi-
tration.
The conference cordially thanks the
committee for the care with which it
has thus completed the work entrusted
to it, directs that the scheme be printed
in the proceedings of the conference
and comnends it to public notice as
the associations contribution to the
further calculation of the question.
This conference expresses its deep
qualification at the adoption by The
Hague peace conference of a scheme of
international arbitration, which car
ries out one of the main objects of the
association, as expressed in reiterated
resolutions from the time of it's OPEN
ing conference at Brussels in 1873.
THE conference recognizes as espe-
cially valuable the following leading
features of the scheme, viz:
First, the nomination of a body of
men of recognized competence in ques-
tons of international law and enjoy
ing particular esteem who will be ready
to act as arbitrators.
Second, the select committee by the
parties to any international dispute
from among the members of the above
named body of arbitrator and an UNI
pire to form an arbitration tribunal
Third, the creation of a permanent
administrative council composed of the
diplomatic representatives at the court
of The Hague, with the Netherlands
minister of foreign affairs as it's presi-
dent.
Fourth, the establishment under the
direction of the above named council
of a permanent bureau whose services
will be at the disposal of all arbitral
tribunals
THE conference therefore urges the
members of the association to use their
influences in their respective countries:
(a) To procure to early ratification of
The Hague convention relative to the
settlement of international differences;
% To promote treaties between two
or more states agreeing to submit their
difficulties to arbitration under the pro-
visions of the convention"
The conference decided that special
committee be appointed to examine in
detail the provisions of The Hague con-
yention and prepare report thereon
for the next conference.
The resolutions were taken up, one
by one, after brief addresses to ascer-
| tain theS Importance and value.
Charles II. Butler read paper on I'm
munity of Private Property at Sea from
Capture During War"
He was followed by Thomas Barclay
of Paris on the same subject, after
| which the conference adjourned until
| tomorrow, when a resolution will be
offered on the subject.