Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-07-23
INTER PARLIAMENTARY UNION MET
TODAY IN WESTMINSTER PALACE
All Parliamentary Countries Represented BY Delegates.
Russian Delegation Produces Great Enthusiasm
By Reference to Dissolution OF DOuma

back of the request for the conversion
of the second Hague conference into
permanent body, when this PROPOSE
ti7n is presented to the members of
that conference next May, in the torn
of report approved unanimously by
the members of the Interparliament-
airy commission.
This VIII be of course the most
important point on the program of ,--e
London conference, but hardly less
important is the report of the com
mission on Model Arbitration
Treaty. 1nat commission, like the one
on international congress. is composed
of very eminent men. Its president Is
Ernest Won PIener, eX-minister of
finance of Australia. He was for many
years the leader of the German party
In the austrian parliament. This
commission has 10 grapple with these
problems:
Problems Presented.
% low to draw a treaty Of arbi-
trstion which can be executed by all
nations, without holding the progress
i've countries back to the position of
the least advanced powers.
(2) How TO draw a treaty which can
hope to be approved by the president
and senate of the United States, with
out fOrfeiting the favor of the great
powers of Europe, that have adopted
a. their standard lne Anglo-French
treaty OF arbitration.
This latter problem arose from the
failure of the Hay treaties to meet
with the approval of the United
States in the form in which they were
negotiated. The Hay treaties proposed
to refer to arbitration all questions OF
a legal nature provided they do not
affect the vital interest or the honor
of either of the contracting powers,
or the interests cf a third power. A
subsequent clause was inserted which
provided that when any particular
controversy might arise a subsequent
agreement should be entered into be-
tween the contracting powers. before
resort could be had to the Court of
Arbitration under the terms of this
treaty.
The senate struck out the word
agreement" and substituted the word
treaty" and then passed the treaty
thus amended by practically a unani-
nous vote, only nine senators object
ing to the amendment. This amend.
ment necessitated securing the con
sent OF the senate in each case when
the subsequent agreement was being
concluded
To Surmount the Difficulty.
Upon Inc initiative of American con
gressmen the Interpariamentary com
mission decided upon a plan to sur
mount the difficulty. This plan is to
specify distinctly the classes of
questions 10 be arhitrated. so that the
senate can exercise its judgment when
it ratifes the trea.y. To prevent this
specification from holding all nations
back to the position occupied by the
least progressive country. 1t was pro
posed that each nation should desig-
nate individually the classes of con
in which II may be inter.
ested which shall be transferred by
the treaty from the battlefield to the
precincts OF the International Court,
and to permit the addition Of other
classes of controversies by each ma.
tion. after the original ratification OF
the treaty.
In this wav each nation can nut the
treaty into operation in a wider area.
bv is own act. between itself and all
other nations which have previously
designated or whicn might subsequent
~ designate the same classes Of ques-
,oins as arbitrable under the terms
+ the treaty. BY this provision all
nations can be parties 20 the same
treaty. and yet It's scope would be
wider between the backward nations.
II seems likely, therefore. that the