New-York tribune., 1905-06-14
UNION LEAGUES TRIBUTE.
Joseph II. Choate Is Clubs Guest
of Honor at Dinner.

AL.
| members and guests Besides handsome forai
decorations the Stars and Stripes with the Union
Jack were used effectively to symbolic MIR.
| Choates recent duties.
| Cornelius n. Bliss, president Of the club, was
| the POSTMASTER At the table with him sat Mr.
| Choate Sir Percy Sanderson. the British Consul
| General; Senator Depew, Elihu Root. President
| Louis Stern, Of the Republican Club and Allen
| ". Evarts.
| Others present were Justice Blanchard
/ Cephus Brainerd, Henry NJ. Brookheld, Philip
| Carpenter, Justice Clarke. Henry Clews Judge
| Cowing Paul D. Cravath. William Nelson
| Cromwell George h. Daniels. Maxwell Evarts
| Hamilton Fish, Frank Hiscock, Colgate Hoyt
! Charles A Moore, Anson G.. McCook, John j.
McCoob, D. o. Mills. J. r. Sheffield. John A
Sleicher. N. N. stranahan. Gage E. Tarbell, j.
| Hobart Warren, Clarence whitman and William
r. WILCOX.
In introducing the guest Of the evening. Mr..
| Bliss said:
The Union League Club comes in force to-
night to welcome you Members are here from
all parts Of the land. We congratulate the
American people that by your presence and ser
| vice in Great Britain you have added TO the
| long line of eminent Ministers and Ambassadors
| one who has preserved In the highest sense the
American diplomatic traditions as exemplifed
| in the Adamses Jay, Everett Motley, Lowell,
| Phelps and Hay. We again bid you welcome TO
take your place the first citizen of the greater
! New-Yo
| Mr. CHOATES SPEECH
After the cheers, Mr.. Choate expressed his
| great delight to be back in the Union League
| Club He said he was perfectly we'll aware that
had he never been a president of the Union
| League Club he never should have been ap-
| pointed Ambassador to Great Britain. He was
sure that, great as was the grief OF the British
people at his departure, they would put UP with
| it as long as they TO have another ex-presl-
| dent Of the club in his place
Mr. Choate said he was glad to be no longer
| an Ambassador. The thing he had most enjoyed
| for the last six weeks was the liberty to say
anything about anybody he pleased. In Eng
land he had to be careful not to discuss English
politics and American politics. and one Of the
| things he felt proud of was that he had been
able to get through his six years and over with
out treading on the toes of either English or
Americans.
The speaker took up the action of President
Roosevelt in bringing about armistice be-
tween Russia and Japan. calling it 1.-The last
splendid achievement of our youthful President
at Washington" adding:
History has no parallel of such work accom-
pshed in as quiet ana % The ann eqedf ef ben
his own dipomatist. And see what he has done!
breaths and biting their lips and wondering in
their spirit Of despair why nothing 19ud 6ond ne and
tenders the olive branch to both of these terrible
frigbtfui scene Of Carnage and slaughter that for
the last year has been disgrace 10 our coiihiioA
humanity.
Mr. Choate said that one had to go abroad to
understand how much interested others were In
President Roosevelt He said they had more
interest in him, more admiration for him. than
for any other American. living or dead. L do
not think it is too much to say" he said. that
this one man, by the force of his strong per-
sonality of his inherent virtue. has actually ee-
waited his country in the eyes Of the world"
SIR PERCY sANDERsoN SPEAKS
Sir Percy sanderson, who was received cor
daily, said:
for the opportunity you have given me OF joining
p1oote 1no Sarony " and good VIII between the
and debt 5e 6f it sG With Fs
United States He has rightly said that there ls
the more 5na sqGent the the better
feeling and the understanding the greater will be
general I do not propose 10 go over ground which
has been to N but ay peThaps be oWed
to say a few words on the point Of better under
To who for many years carried on his con- n
sular duties in foreign language the IN nxuTy OF
business is untold. 1t is not that in Rumania |
Was gnorant Of their language for that learned
but tfat do what you viii you cannot enter into
the medium Of conversation is a language foreign
% tut one srs Of an3 he o a nanTe is G
In New-York found m9reoyer' IN trinity
originally British; Columbia University, once
the decisions of eminent jurists meet with equal
Of a good Understanding are ali here; good will
alone is required to bring it about and of that my
stanees for Which have to express my gratitude
What is true individually is true 10 a great ex-
not rs' OILY IN the diEcussen Of spe&
Of those internationaI problems. such as the reia-
tions between capital and labor for instance,
when the Language used is one that can be un-
derstanded as wen by the workingnan as by those
languages, The opportunities are there. and I
Of them What Mr Choate has done in that di-
rection we all know.
SENATOR DEPEw ON DIPLOMACY
Senator Depew said that all the members of
the club were mighty glad to have Mr.. Choate
back He spoke of the peculiarly intimate rela-
ton which exists between the American Anbas-
sador and the British people. saying, IN part:
Our English friends take very seriously the SEN
rirnent of common language literature. blood and
ancestry. One of ministers was censured by
too pFofuse ana Enthusiastic in thls line: i g
herence this idea. Mr.. Choate never better dis
have given him international fame than in putting
better than any one had before the ties OF blood
saving the situation m among the Americans at home
nroLed bT being P rsnspsned to 1 new counTy
SUCCESS in diplomacy for centuries has been
County the most successful Diplomacy in the world
because it Is the diplomacy on OF truth Ro4seTet
1t is no subterfuge. Happily. it is understood
Elihu Root ex-senator washburn and ex-Judgs
Rowland were other speakers at the dinner. Among