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PLANS FOR SECOND
HAGUE CONFERENCE
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTER.
NATIONAL LAW DEvoTEs PART
OF SESSION TO MATTER.
ELIHU ROOT ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF SOCIETY
American Delegates to Hague Peace
Conference Receive Instructions
American Colonial Policy Dis.
cussed at Philadelphia.

Washington, April 22.-Plans for
the second Hague conference and the
development of international law as
science were the principal questions
discussed at Saturdays session of the
first annual meeting of the American
Society of International Law. Papers
were read by number of the dele
gates and by members of the diplomat
ic corps.
Secretary Strauss, of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, presided
Saturday and opened the discussion
with an earnest expression of the
hope that If The Hague conference
did not reach an agreement as to the
limitation of armament among the
nations, an understanding would be
arrived at to prevent a neutral power
from furnishing money to a belliger-
ent. 1t ought, he said, to be made a
hostile act to furnish money to ma
tons involved in war.
Richard Olney, who was one of the
principal speakers at Saturdays SEES
sion, criticised President Roosevelt's
Santo Domingo policy and condemned
the taking of the Panama canal strip
without compensation to Colombia.
AS to Santo Domingo, Mr.. Olney said
the United States was being made an
international debt collecting agency;
that the policy tended to tyranny and
tended to retard rather than advance
the progress of international law,
which he said was not founded on the
will of a Caesar. Colombia, he said,
ought to have been compensated for
the territory taken by the United
States for the Panama canal
At the conclusion of the address by
Mr.. Olney the general topic of The
Hague conference and the develop
ment on International law as sci
ence was discussed by John w. For.
ter. Prof. Theodore s. Woolsey of
Connecticut and Representative Rich
ard Bartholdt of st. Louis
Officers of the society were elected
for the ensuing year as follows:
President, Elihu Root
Vice presidents, Chief Justice Full
er, Justice David j. Brewer, Justice
William R. Day, William H. Taft,
Andrew Carnegie, Joseph H. Choatc,
John w. Foster, George Gray, John
W. Griggs, w. w. Morrow, Richard
Olney, Oscar S. Straus and Horace
Porter.
At two o'clock the president re-
ceived the members of the society at
the White House.
The meeting was brought to close
at night with a banquet at which
Secretary of State Root presided as
teastmaster. The speakers of the
evening included James Bryce, the
British ambassador; JOSEF H. Choate,
Richard Olney and Gen. Horace Por-
ter.
Hague Peace Delegates Instructed.
Washington, April 22.-In response
to call from Secretary Root all of
The American delegates to the Sec
end Hague congress with the excep-
lion Of Judge U. B. Rose of Arkansas,
assembled in the diplomatic room at
The state department Saturday and
spent several hours in consultation
With the secretary and Assistant Sec
rotary Bacon, relative to their share
In the work of the approaching con-
gress. Gen. Porter and Mr.. Choate,
who We're appointed last June, al
ready had received the departments
Instructions for the presentation of
their case to the peace congress, but
the increase of the delegation by the
addition of Mr.. Buchanan, Gen. Davis
and Admiral Sperry and the enlarge
ment of the prospective programme
made necessary a repetition of the
pld Instructions and considerable ad.
aitions thereto.
Colonial Policy Discussed.
Philadelphia, April 22.-The Ameri.
oan Academy of Political and Social
Science began its eleventh annual
meeting here Friday, the general topic
tor discussion this year being Ameri-
can colonial policy and administra-
ton.
The meeting has been divided into
four sessions. At Friday afternoons
asssion, at which Prof. James T.
Young of the University of Pennsyl.
yania presided, there was discussion
Of the industrial and financial prob.
lens in the dependencies of the Unit
I'd States and at the evening meeting
American Colonial Policies" was ta-
ken up.
The principal speakers at the night
session We're Ambassador Bryce, who
spoke on Some Difficulties in Colo
Aial Government Encountered by
Great Britain and How They Have
Been Met" and United States Senator
Deveridge on THE Development of a
Colonial Policy for the United States"
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