The Red Cloud chief., 1903-10-23
NOTED GATHERING
The Last Dinner Before a Final
Decision.
BREAKING BREAD OF PEACE
The Alaskan Boundry Commission Par
takes OF uospitaiity-A MinEiing OF
Notably Prominent Men.

The dinner given by the Pilgrims So
ciety to the Alaskan boundary COM
mission at Claridge hotel, London,
proved the most notable assemblaE ,
OF Englishmen. Americans and Canc
dams ever brought together in Lon
don. In addition to the members o
tho commission, the Brit h cablne'
ministers, the American Ambassador
and the most prominent l presenta
tives of English public life " IRE pres
ent.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts presided
On his right sat Ambassador Choatc
and on his left Lord Chief Justice Al
vertsone. Lord Lansdowne, Sir Louis
Jette, Sir Stanley Clarke. the kings
equerry, and Secretary Elihu Root sat
at the same table. while the other
guests were distributed at small tables
around tho room.
Lord Roberts proposed the health OF
King Edward and President Roosevelt
in q united toast which met with a
cordial reception. He then proposed
THE Alaskan boundary commission"
10 which Lord Alverstone replied, say
ing that the meeting OF the commits
sioners would stand as n monument
OF tho feeling evidenced In America
and Great Britain to settle their differ
ences by a common sense method. Ex-
United States Senator Turner. and the
Hon. Clifford Sifton, Canadian interior
minister, answered for their respective
countries, the latter saying that no
greater crime could be conceived
against human nature than trouble be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States.
Proposing the health of the Anglo
Saxon race, Foreign Secretary Lord
Lansdowne claimed that II had done
moro than any other nationality to
promote the arts and literature and
Just and equal government. He said:
IL may prophesy that our contribution
towards the happiness and the good
government of the world will not be
less In the future than It has been In
the past. The two great branches OF
the An~glo-Saxon race will be found
working shoulder to shoulder, giving
an example to the world Of the best
mode OF settling differences. Human
natures are fallible, and We must have
our little differences from time to time,
UuJ au upDcul W tOTCU IL uI~ltnlUhdDle.'
His lordship referred TO the fact that
eight countries were Joining in the
Venezuelan arbitration and the pleas
ure he derived from signing the Anglo
French arbitration treaty, but the
Alaskan tribunal, he declared. wa by
far the most important example Of
that principle. Jacob M. Dickinson,
the American consul. In responding,
referred to the Afro-American and
othcr elements composing the Amer
lean population.
Mr.. Aylesworth, the Canadian COM
missioner. answering In the name of
Canada, asked IL Lord Lansdowne had
not lost sight OF the fact hat several
thousands OF the best Anglo-Saxons
lived In Canada. P~assionately, Mr..
Aylesworth declared that none was
o loyal to King Edward than the
Canadian, yet there was none who
from a business and sentimental point
OF view moro appreciated their asso-
citation with America,
Secretary Root closed the dinner
with a notable speech. proposing the
health OF Lord Roberts as the COM
mander-in-chlef of the British army.
MIR. Root referred to the endeavor to
promote army reform on both sides
OF the Atlantic. Tho American people,
he said, had inherited from Great
Britain the ingrained distrust of a
standing army, The people Of America
had Inherited the spirit Of civil con-
troll Of the military arm, On both
sides Of the Atlantic during the past
year the ever-recurring problem of rec
onciling civil and military expert opin-
ion and authority had been the cause
OF difficulty and ineficiency.
Mr.. Root said by the creation OF a
general staff he hoped that the United
States had solved the problem, and he
trusted that Great Britain would be
similarly fortunate.
After remarling that Canada had
learned how colonies should be prop
erly treated by the lesson Of the Amer
lean revolution. MIR. Root said he was
proud to put the American army side
by side with the British army, the
characteristic of the latter being that
It did not fight for tyranny. oppression
or conquest, but for progress. liberty
and construction. not destruction
which always followed In the wake OF
the British arms.
Lord Roberts briefly thanked Secre.
tary Root and the proceedings then
ended.