The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
PERMANENT COURT
 OF ARBITRATION
TEXT OF THE AMERICAN PRoPo. SETON PROVIDING FOR FoRMA- TON OF COURT AND POWERS OF JUDGES ANNOUNCED.

The Hague, August 2e-The text of the American proposition for the establish ment of permanent court of arbitration has been completed in agreement with Germany and Great Britain, and will come up for discussion August B. It con sists of twenty-five articles The first article records the desire of the signatorv powers to organize an international high court of justice. easily accessible and free of charge, with judges representing the various systems of laws of the world. and capable of ensuring a continuation of arbitration by jurisprudence"
 The second provides that the judges must be ''jurisconsults of known compe- tence in International law, selected so far as possible from the members of the permanent court of arbitration"
 According to the third and fourth ar ticles the judges are appointed for terms of twelve years.
 Article provides that the court shall consist of seventeen judges, nine forming quorum.
 Article allots tho appointments to tho various nations.
 Article provides that the high court yearly shall appoint three judges. who can, if necessary, try cases elsewhere than at The Hague.
 Article says the president of the court shall be elected every three years by a majority of the votes.
 Article deals with the payment of the judges 5asa sss
 Article 10 forbids judges from receivin.- remuneration from their own or other governments for services in connection with the high court
 Article il says the court shall sit at The Hague except in cases of force mateure
 Articles 12 and IS deal with secretarial matters.
 Article IA states that the high court shall sit once or twice yearly.
 Articles 15, 16, r and IS relate to tbe cases which the court is competent to try.
 Article 1s provides that leach party shall be entitled to have it's own judge to participate in the trial of cases submit ted to the court
 Articles 20, 21 and 22 deal with tho court procedure and the calling of wit nesses.
 Articles 2s and "A empower the court to establish its own rules.
 Article 25 proposes the ratification of the convention at The Hague as quickly as possible.
 Article 26 proposes to establish the dur aton of the convention, but the term is not yet fixed.
 The redrafting of the American propos,- ton regarding the collection of contract ural debts according to the observations made during the debate has practically been finished The only important alter aton from the original text is the elinl- inatlon of the words, Implying the use of naval and military forces" where 1t says "Iit is agreed that there shall be no resourse to coercive measures imply ing the use of naval or military forces for the collection of said contractural debts"
 The special commission which has been examining the proposition to establish a supreme International prize court today approved the project drafted by the Uni ted States, Great Britain, Germany and France by 10 to votes, the minority be- ing Dr. Barbosa, head of the Brazilian delegation, and Senor Estera of Mexico, who objected to the grouping of the pow CTS, according to their rank, for the ap- pointment of judges