Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-07-25

1nentary union concluded its session /
today. The decision of a time and
place for the next conference was !
left in the hands of the international
council 1t is expected that the con
ference will be held in Berlin.
Bryan Made Hit Of Occasion.
The delegates were entertained to- /
day with luncheon by the house of
lords Mr.. Bryan made the hit of the
occasion, with a brilliant piece of !
word-painting, describing the glories |
of peace, his text being to the effect |
that noble life was better than
death on the battlefield. Prolonged
applause greeted Bryan oratorical |
effort.
Maps Out Needed Legislation.
The conference of the inter-parlia-
mentary union, after a prolonged de
bate today, adopted the following res
olutions:
The inter-parliamentary union ex-
presses the view tnat the second
Hague conference should, first, by
treaty, define contraband of war as
being restricted to arms, munitions of
war and explosives; second, to re-
assert and confirm the principle that
neither a ship carrying contrabands
ship, not being contraband of war, may
be estroyed; third, to affirm that
even the private property of bellig
erents should be as immune. at sea
as it is on land"
The conference also adopted a res
olution in favor of discussion by The
Hague conference of means to- cut
down, the "intolerable expenditure on
ornaments"
Speech Of South American
Congressman Bartholdt speaking
for Senor Diego Mendoza. extended an
invitation to the parliamentary union
to hold its session in 1910 at Bogota,
the capital of Colombia. He said
The year 1910 will mark the one
hundredth anniversary of the indie
pendence of Colombia, achieved
through the leadership of Simon Boil
iver. His final military victory was
won at Ayacucho, and resulted in the
liberation of all South America from
subjugation to Spain. This brought
the whole of that great continent un-
der the modern dispensation in gov
ernment, whose cardinal principle is
government by the people today.
through the agency of representatives
elected by the people, sitting in par
Ilament or congress.
The assembling of the first repre-
sentative parliament of England dur
ing the thirteenth century being taken
as a starting point, it is easy to see
how all other political eVets since then
are secondary in importance to the
appearance of representative parlia-
ments in the various parts of the
world.
Every foot of ground on the two
continents of America, almost all of
Europe and great part of Africa is
now in subjection to such sovereign.
SO are Cuba. Australia and Japan.
The United States is instituting such
a system in the Philippines. The en-
pire of China is working on plans for
Chinese congress, and the Russian
people are actually in the throes of
passing from an autOcratic 20 a par
liamentary system.
Such is the condition OF affairs in
the several parts of the world today
when the third Pan-AmeriCan con-
gress is convening, when arrange
ments are being made for the early
assembling of the second general as
sembly of the nations at The Hague,
and when the lnterparliamentary I'm
ion Is considering the best form for a
permanent International congress. IN
der such circumstances we may well
take a glance backward as well as
forward. Three hundred years ago
Elizabeth OF England was H. consulta-
Lion with Henry ". of France in re-
gard to establishing permanent peace
IN Europe by the organization of
council or congress of European pow
-rs' and as our organization is hold
rrrH .v.V d
irai Of Great Britain, it may not be
Inappropriate 10 recall the fact that. in
the memoirs Of the Duke cI Sullv the
prime minister of Henry the Great. it
said that the suggestions upon this
grand design which were made by
Queen Elizabeth proved her to be the
peer of any king.
Simon Bolivar, the li5erator Of
south America, proposed IN 1926 a
similar plan for preserving effectually
tle political liberties of America. that
Is, by the organization of a Pan Amer
lcan congress in which al American
states would be represented
In the Pan American congress and
i'm The Hague conferences. which are
now actual facts, these two grand
ideas are finding a tardy, or should
say a timely. realization.
1T seems more than apprC Cpriate that
the parliamentary principle, having
gone forth from England and estab-
llshed itself in all parts OF the world,
should now return TO this place and
plead for its application to the com
mon affairs Of all those nations that
have adopted the parliamentary form
OF government for their individual in
terests
The lnterparliamentary Union is IT,
self a suggestion Of this idea It's re
quest, recorded at ST. Louis, for the
consideration Of this idea by the gov
-rnments, has become resolution
favor OF the conversion OF the sec
o21 Hague conference into a pe--au-