The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-24
ROOSEVELT WILL
HEAR RESOLUTION
Sentiment Adopted at Interpar-
liameItary Union 10 Be
Presented.
MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON.
Express Themselves as Wonder
fully Impressed by WHAT They
Have Seen in Their Visit 10
the United States.
MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON.
The Republic Bureau.

I.-h ST All Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington. sept 1.-TWO hundred
members OF the Interpa-liamentary Union.
which held its twelfth annual session at
s. LOUIS this month. arrived in Wash
.agtoa ;his morning. and are Quartered
~ re Arlington.
The par!!ameEtarians have been won
eerfuiiy Impressed by what they haze
seen Of the United States They spent the
forenoon in sightseeing. many OF them
visiting the Congressional Library and the
Capitol building In the afternoon the
majority OF the party went TO Mount
Vernon 10 visit the tomb OF Washington.
Tomorrow President Roosevelt will re-
ceive the distinguished visitors.
Speaking OF the importance OF the reso-
luton adopted at the St Louis confer
snce- which VIII be presented 10 the Pres
ident tomorrow. William Randall Cremer.
the originator Of the Interpariianaentary
Union. said:
This Internariiamentary Union and the
magnitude OF the movement 1t represents
and its recent elimination at ST. Louis
By the passage OF the resolution which
will be presented to President Roosevelt
tomorrow does not seem to be fully ap-
preciated.
NO ruler OF any nation ever was offered
slcn an opportunity VIII fall 20 the
President OF the United States Tomorrow
He Will be invited By the representatives
OF nearly every important. Government
having q national parliament 10 convene
I congress OF nations. which will bring
the nations IF Central and South America
into the defective union Of nations consti-
tuied by the treaty Of The Hague: which
VIII concentrate the irresistible move
rneHt toward arbitration treaties and re-
suit In the formulation Of a treaty that
viii serve as a model. clearly defining
what classes OF controversies are included
in il. and giving The Hague court :uris-
diciion over such controversies. and the
night to develop an automatic system OF
procedure for the trial Of such cases. thus
founding IL on a solid basis. in its proper
place an integral part ot the worlds
judicial machinery
In other words. the President will he
asked to take. on behalf OF the United
States. the next step forward-a great
step-in the universal adoption Of the
ideas for which your foretathers fought
and died 20 make operative on the At
lartic seaboard OF America
This request will be made by the cflos-
en- representatives OF the people OF nearly
in part even for its national affairs, the
ideas for which the United States stands
his IS the opportunity for the United
States to become a world power IN the
way your great men desire in the way the
greatest OF our forefathers foresaw and
prophesied, in the way that political his
tory OF the past has been preparing for
in the only way that can be permanently
or beneiicen-lv successful
The thing they invite the nations TO
do is simply a common-sense application
TO iuternatiJ al affairs OF those princi-
piles which nave been found Indispensable
In the conduct o. state and national af-
fairs