Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-06
Proposed Compact Between
United States and England.
MEETING TO CONSIDER
EMINENT MEN TO DISCUSS PROB
LEM IN THIS CITY.
Assemblage in New Willard Hotel
Tuesday Next-List of the Speak
ers - The Delegates.

AT meeting OF the local COiHliittc0 Va
arrangements for the mass meeting that IS
to be held In the Lafayette Opera House
Tuesday next for the purpose of procuring
an arbitration treaty with Great Britain
the list of speakers invited to address the
meeting ON that occasion was read ana
approved. Included among the speakers
are Cardinal Gibbons. Andrew Carnegie,
Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton
University; Rabbi Hirsch Of Chicago, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Clark Howell and Gov
ernor Durbin Of Indiana.
A preliminary meeting of the committee
was held at the residence of John w. Fos-
ter, Secretary of State during the admin
tstration Of President Harrison A vote
decided to include in Its duties those of
receiving the visitors, and John Joy Edison
was chosen chairman for both functions.
Visitors from all parts Of the country are
expected to attend the meeting, and the
assembly hall Of the New Willard has been
placed at the disposal of the committee
by the proprietors for use as consultation
room.
An arbitration treaty with Great Britain,
such as was presented to the Senate in 1897
and rejected by that body, is the object of
the national arbitration committee. Of
which the coming meeting is a result, and
now that the Alaskan boundary dispute
has been settled. the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
become statute and The Hague tribunal
a recognized court Of arbitration, it is
hoped that success will attend the efforts
of the promoters of universal arbitration
and prove a deathblow to war as resort
OF disagreeing nations.
Hague Tribunal Supreme.
The conference proper, which, from the
information that has come to the local COM
mittee, promises to be attended by repre-
sentative in of will
gather in the assembly hall of the New
Willard Hotel at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. The object of the conference, as
stated. is to consider the question of the
adoption of treaty between the United
States and Great Britain. Under this
treaty, II secured. these two nations will
agree to resort to The Hague tribunal in
certain class of cases under specified condi-
tons. It's work probably will be concluded
IN one day, and will include the passage Of
resolutions and the appointment of commit
tees to lay the resolutions before Congress-
List Of the Delegates.
Among those who have promised to be
present are the following:
Philacelphia-John H. Converse, John
Cadwalader, Provost c. c. Harrison, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; John Field, w 8.
Harvey. DR.. 8. Weir Mitchell, John Wanna
maker Joseph G. Darlington, George W.
CSHS, uDiC LeuSeT, Inlllp q. Garrett,
clifton R. Woodruff, Francis Rawle, Charles
Richardson, John B. Garrett and Mahlan
N. Kline
New York city-C. N. Bliss, Francis
Lynde Stetson Everett P. Wheeler, Carl
Schurz. Walter s. Logan. Andrew Carnegie.
George l.. Rives, President Nicholas Murray
Butler, Columbia University; Chancellor
McCracken, University of New York; Prof.
Josiah Strong. DR.. L. T. Chamberlain,
Stuyvesant Fish, Warner Van Norden, John
crosby Brown Of Brown Brothers & Co.;
Jacob H. Schiff Of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.; c. R.
Miller. New York Times; Hamilton Holt.
the Independent; Horace White, Oscar s.
Straus John Foord of American Asiatic
Association, and representatives of the New
YORK chamber of commerce. George
Ward. -.
Richmond-J. Taylor Ellyson, President
George w. Stevens, Eppa Hunton, IT.. L. L.
Lewis Joseph Bryan, James H. Dooley. f.
U: Leigh. X. I. d. Myers 8. S. p. Patteson,
Wyndham r. Meredith, w. Gordon Nc
Cabe, John S. Williams. John L. Williams,
Joseph E. Willard. P. H. Mayo and Thomas
N. Carter.
staunton. va.-A c. Braxton, Thomas D.
Ransom. R. 8. Turk, Daily Spectator. and
A. c. Gordon.
Boston-Charles s. Hamlin, Robert Treat
Paine, Edward Everett Hale, Samuel d.
Gapon. Osborne Howes. DR.. Benjamin F.
Trueblood, Edwin D. Meade Edward CHM
President Hopkins, Williams College. and
John ID. Long, bingham.
new EaVen-Judge Lynde Harrison Prof
Simeon E. Baldwin and Henry Wade Rog-
ers dean Of law school,
Baltimore-Cardinal Gibbons Robert M
McLane, mayor Of the city; President Ira
Remsen, Johns Hopkins University: Judge
T. NJ. Sharp. William Keyser, Blanchard
RANDALL president National Board of
chael Jenkins. president trust COMPANY:
ChafIes j. Bonaparte, H. Stanley Gary
Robert Garrett. David Hutzler, DIR. John +.
Goucher, president Women's College: John
Buckler.
Deiaware-John Hum, governor of Della
ware; Judge George Gray, w P Banfroct.
lndianapolis-W T. Durbin, governor of
INDIANA; A I. Harris, ex-minister to Aus
tria: Noble c. Bullet, clerk United States
court.
Chicago-Lambert Tree, J. NJ Dickinson,
Rev, Emil Hirsch. Volney w Foster.
Minnesota-David H. Lawrence, ex-Min-
lister Thayer.
maha-Edward Rosewater, Omaha Bee;
Charles F. Henderson. Charles c. Green.
San Francisco-Horace Davis, VIM M.
Bunker OF chamber Of commerce.
Atlanta-Clark Howell Bishop c. X. Nell
son. Burton Smith.
Augusta. Ga.-James W. Jackson.
New Orleans-President E. A. Alderman,
Tulane University
Austin Tex.-W. L. Prather
Brooklyn-W. ]. Coombs.
MontrOse-on-the-H udson-Frederick w,
Seward
Saratoga-Nash lockwood.
Rochester. N Wv. Martin Jones'
Buffalo-John G. Milburn, George E. Mat
thews, Buffalo Express
Malone-John I. Gilbert.
Johnstown-J. Keck
Vermont G. Mccullough, governor
Princeton University-President Woodrow
Wilson.
Ohio Wesleyan University-President ].
b. Bashford.
Indiana Normal School-President II. B.
Brown.
President American Federation Of Labor
Samuel Gompers.
National Association of lecturers
A. b. Farquhar
Detroit. Mich.-W. E. Quimby
Lafayette College, Pa.-President E. D.
Warfield.
REUNION OF VETERANS.