Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-12
WORLDS UNION OPENED
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING AT
CONGRESS m ST. LOUIS TODAY.
Representative Bartholdt Electet
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President--Address Of Assistant
Secretary Loomis.

ST. LOUIS September 12-The twelfth
conference Of 1.-THE ter-Parliamentary
Union opened today in Festival Hall at the
worlds fair grounds Two hundred and
twenty-six legislators from England and
practically every European parliament were
IN attendance. There WIS also an Ameri-
can group, headed by Representative Rich
ara D. Bartholdt Of st. Louis and T. c.
Burton Of Cleveland.
The conference was called to order by
Dr. Gobat OF the Swiss national council,
IN MS capacity as general secretary. DR..
Gooat introduced Congressman Richard
Bartholdt as the president of the confer
ence.
Bartholdt for President
In accepting the office Of president Con-
gresham Bartholdt expressed the opinion
that the work Of the conference would
finally result in the entertainment of uni
versal arbitration and universal peace.
At the conclusion Of his opening address
the president introduced Francis E. Loomis,
nrst assistant secretary of state, who rep
resented President Rooseelt. The secretary
spoke, In part, as follows:
Mr.. Loomis' Address.
The President Of the United States au-
thorizes me to extend to you his kind and
most cordial greeting. Valuing as he does
the blessings of peace, earnestly desiring
the diminution and lessening Of the rigors
and horrors Of war, your coming Is par
tlcularly grateful to him. for you are about
TO discuss phases of a problem Of deeply
human and worldwide interest, the peace
1ul settlement Of Internal ional disputes.
You will find in this country, / am proud
to say, responsive and sympathetic en-
yironment. Your deliberations will be fol-
lowed with warm and friendly interest by
that the world one day may enter upon the
threshold at least of that blessed era, the
thousand years of peace.
For more than century there has exist
ed In this country a virile and steadily in
creasfng sentiment in favor of the adjust
ment Of difficulties between nations by
some method less brutal and costly than
resort to arms.
Record Of Arbitration.
Within the last hundred years there have
been more than two hundred cases in
which international difficulties have been
adjusted by the peaceful method of arbi-
tration in one form or another, and the
government of the United States has been
a party to about seventy of these arrange
ments. The most notable treaty in which
this government was concerned. and one
which has had perhaps. the most profound
and hepefirant rasnltS In tb.t n bas diroct
ed and powerfully Influenced public opin-
ion was the treaty negotiated in washing
ton in 1SI1.ltWhich provided for four arbi-
trations. OF it NF. John Morley says: THE
treaty of Washington and the Geneva ar
bitration stand out as the most notable in
telnalioi.di tRai5e % tHe nineteenth cen
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history of self-command in two or three
chief democtAtfca powers of the western
"orio.
Amerlcenoeart IN conference.
The active GOODWILL of the American peo-
pie and goverrment with respect to all
practical Efforts to give effect to the prin-
cinle Of arhitra tinn wac apatn snIendidIy
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which the AMERICAN delegates took in the
peace conference, and has been still further
shown by the unfiring efforts of this gov
eminent to contribute to the stability, per-
manence andfmportance OF The Hague tri-
puHat So .sSlV
l desies to compliment the inter-parlia-
# made at its Conference held in HoIla5d
In 1894 In favor of q permanent court of
ar p " anu the SUBSEQUENT oeVeiopmeht
n commission of, sly members a pnointed fnr
that purpose = The aria mentary
union deserves credit for practically fore
cas,ihs hVe years IN advance what proved
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have been achieved.
united states Co Aid.
Mr.. Loomis here recounted the yar,ous
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'erhatio'ai disputes that nave peen settled
by arbitration since the last meeting Of the
inter-parliamentary union. and said that the
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