The age-herald., 1901-11-09
PAN-AMER|CAN CONGRESS WILL
 TAKE 4 RECESS Committees Will Have Two Weeks to Consider Projects Sub-
 mitted to Them, DETa|ISOF COURT OF CLAIMS Mexican Delegate Explains That It Is Largely Based on the olney-
 Pauncefote Treaty of Jan-
 uary 12, 1897.
DETaIISOF COURT OF CLAIMS

The proposal to adjourn for fortnight was made by President Riagosa in order as he said, to allow the committees time to consider the projects submitted tc them.
 senor Matte of Chile moved that the president be authorized during the re- cess to refer the projects presented to the proper committees. With this amend ment the motion was carried.
 Copies of a work on arbitration by Evans Darby of the London Peace So- ciety, distributed among the members of the conference.
 A cablegram of felicitation was ordered sent to Santos-Dumont and a cablegram of thanks for good wishes sent to the Spanish parliament.
 Tomorrow by invitation of the minister of war, General Hernando Reyes, the delegates will visit the artillery museum and arsenal. and by invitation of Finance Minister Limantour they will visit the mint on Tuesday.
 Some day next week they will go out to inspect the works for the drainage of the Valley of Mexico.
 At today's session the project of the treaty for an international court of claims was presented by the Mexican del- egation.
 The olney-Pauncefote Lines.
 In an introductory speech Francisco L. DeLabarra, delegate of Mexico, and author of the project, said that the same largely haGad m ha n Do, fote treaty of January 12, 1897, with mod ihcations suggested by the objections which were made to the same treaty in the United States Senate, and which caused that body to reject it. The proposed convention provides that the parties thereto will bind themselves | to submit to an inter national court all claims proceeding from pecuniary loss and damages occasioned to any state or its citizen on account of acts or omis- l sions Of another state or any of it's cit izens, provided that such claims cannot be arranged Automatically.
 l The obligation so to submit claims com- mences as soon as 1t is demanded by any of the contracting governments. The court of claims will be constituted | as follows:
 | Each contendlng government shall ap- | point one arbitrator who must be a jurist | Of repute, not native of the state ap- | pointing him, and the two arbitrators to- gether shall elect a third one, who will | preside. If the two arbitraters cannot agree as to Che appointment of a third they shall ask the chief justice of the | Supreme Court of any of the American republics to designate third arbitrator, | Who must not be a native of any of the | states interested in the controversy
 Should states requesting the arbitrat- Ion De more than two. each shall appoint an arbitrator. and srbitrators thus ap- pointed will secure the appointment of | the presiding arbitrator in the samA man. ner ss above indicated.
 The presiding arbitrator will have the | casting of a vote in case of a tie. | Sentence must be rendered within three | months counting from the date on which the case Is closed Sentence will be de- l cided by the majority of votes and must | be signed by all members of the court, including the dissenting ones, who may, | however, express their private views in an independent form. If the sentence is unanimous 1t will be final save that with | in two months its revision by the same court may be demanded in case its pub lication gives rise to doubts of various interpretations: or in case 1t fails to de- eide any of the points at issue the court will decide the case anew and definitely within one month from the date of ap- plication for a revision.
 Appeal May Be Taken. If the original sentence was rendered by a majority of the votes only the los- ing party may appeal to an international | court composed of five members, of whom | two will be selected by the heads of the | contending states, four of those thus | elected appointing fifth or proceeding as above indicated in case of failure to | come to an agreement as to the fifth | But if in case of a non-unanimous sen. | tence no appeal is taken within three | months, the sentence shall become tr' | revocable.
 | In case that an appeal is taken tn, | case shall be considered and decided ir | revocably by the court of appeals, con | stituted as above within such period | of time as 1t may fix. Both the court O. | claims and the court of appeals may or | der the payment of court expenditures | by either of the contending parties, other wise the parties must shart the courts expense equally. Each of the contendin, parties shall pay its private expenses | The high contracting parties in the treat. oblgate themselves in good faith t, comply with the stipulations of the sai' treaty, but if any state fails so to com ply other states may subscribe to a col lective note of censure which shall be come public and official provided 1t i subscribed by at least three of the con tracting states.
 The treaty Is to remain in force fiv years, counted from the date on whicl the exchange of notifications by at leas three of the states shall take place. An, state may withdraw from the convention one year after giving notice to that ef
 feet
 Proposed Sanitary Regulations.
 The Mexican delegation at this morn
 ings session of the Pan-American con
 ference presented an international sani
 tary regulation. The project reviews tn
 recent scientific discoveries and conclude
 with the following resolutions:
 From the above facts it is seen tha
 the solution of the problem for avoiding
 the propagation of the pVncipal epi
 demic has been modified in accordance
 with the continual progress of scienc
 and therefore, in view of the discoverie
 since the first Pan-American congress Ii
 1890. it is to be desired that its recon
 mendations be prepondered and tha
 other measures be paid more attention il
 accord with present progress and fin har mony with the necessities of maritim,