The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
ID BE DUR FIRST
 PEACE CONGRESS Plans for Gathering in New
 York PRELIMINARY TO HAGUE Questions Which Are to Be Presented to the Next International Confer ence Will Be Discussed
 at Meeting.
PRELIMINARY TO HAGUE

The first national arbitration and peace congress ever held in America is to meet in New York from April IA to 17 next. The meeting is to be held at that time in order that the American delegates 10 the second Hague congress in June may be impressed with the idea that the American people expect certain things to be accomplished.
 The questions which promoters of inter national peace expect to see taken up at The Hague upon the initiative of the American delegates include the establish ment of general arbitration treaties be- tween all nations, the establishment of world congress, at first only advisory
 but gradually increasing its powers and evolving a code of international law; gradual proportionate disarmament, fol- lowing the lead already taken by Chile and Argentina, and a small armed in- ternational police force, to meet the pos sibility of civil war.
 The committees at work on the plans i for the New York peace congress in- clude men eminent in all works of life ! The legislative committee, of which Rep
 resentative Richard Bartholdt of Mis- souri, president of the American inter-
 parliamentary group, is chairman and Samuel J. Barrows is vice chairman, in-
 eludes these senator's: Bacon. of Geor- 1 gia; Burrows, of Michigan Warner, of Missouri; Overman, of North Carolina; | Foraker, of Ohio; Knox, of Pennsylvan- ia; Latimer, of South Carolina and Gull 1 person, of Texas.
 | These members of the house of repre-
 sentatives are on the committee and have
 promised to attend: Andrus, Goldfogle, l Parsons and Ruppert, of New York; Ro- ! denburg of Illinois; Hepburn, of Iowa;
 James, of Kentucky; Broussard, or
 Louisiana Lttlefeld, of Maine; Williams
 of Mississippi Norris, Of Nenraska,
 Wood, of New Jersey; Burton, of Ohio;
 Moon, of Pennsylvania;, Granger, of
 Rhode Island, and Slayden, of Texas. | The committee also includes the gover-
 nors of the thirteen original states. | The committee will in turn invite the l governors of all the other states in the | union the speaker and president of each
 state legislature and the minority leader | of each.
 The judiciary committee, of which the
 chairman is Judge George c. Holt of the | United States district court of New York,
 will take equally important part in | the congress. Its members are Justices
 Day and Moody of the United States | supfeme court, United States Circuit l Court Justices Colt of Rhode Island, Gray | of Delaware, Pardee of Louisiana, Lur- | ton of Tennessee, Grosscup of Illinois and 1 Morrow of California, and the following | judges: Judge Baldwin of the supreme | court oi errors of Connecticut Chief Jus | tice Clark of North Carolina, Judge Jor- | dan of the supreme court of Indiana, 1 President Keith of the supreme court of | appeals of Virginia, Chief Justice Knowl- ton of Massachusetts, Judge McAlvay Of l the supreme court of Michigan, Judge | McClair of the supreme court of Iowa | and Chief Justices Mitchell of Pennsyl- | vania and Parsons of New Hampshire. | Through them invitations will be extend | ed to judges of the lower courts. l feature of the congress Is expected | to be the greatest gathering of college | and university presidents ever known. | The chairman of the intercollegiate com l mittee is Dean Kirchwey of the Colum- | bia law school Among the members are 1 Presidents Butler of Columbia, Hadley of | Yale Eliot of Harvard, Jordan of Leland | Stanford Judson of Chicago, Wilson of l Princeton. and Alderman of Virginia. The l college committee expects to induce the | president of nearly every institution of | higher learning in the country to at- | tend and bring at least one representa- | tive or the student body with him. I Through the press committee the chair | man o9 which Is Hamilton Holt, the edi- | tor of every newspaper in the coun- | try with a circulation of more than 5000 l ha been urged personally to attend, and
 has beer invited to aid the work of the congress in any way possible.
 l The ether committees and their chair | men are: Commerce and transportation, | Marcus M Marks; labor, Charles | Sprague Smith religious and ethical so- | cieties, the Rev. Frederick T. Lynch: pa- | triotc societies, Col Asa Bird Gardiner | The arrangements for the dinner on We'd l nesday night, April 17, which is to be the eliminating feature of the congress, are l in the hands of committee headed by l Lindsay Russell.
 The two men around whom the greatest ! interest at the congress will probably cen l ter are President Roosevelt and Earl | Grey, Governor General of Canada, both | of whom are to be speakers at the con- | cluding dinner. The promoters had | planned to have President Diaz of Mex. | lea present, but this telegram express | ing his regrets has just been received: I would accept with pleasure the courte- ous and honorable invitation which you have pleased to send under date of February 27 last to assist at the con- gress of arbitration and peace which is | to convene in your city from April A to l7 next, and to speak at the public ban quet which is to terminate so interest ing and timely an assembly on the ap-
 proach of the peace conference How
 ever, I cannot obtain permission from the congress of the nation.
 During it's next session, devoted to
 fixing the budget and other grave ques-
 tions, I shall be prevented from having
 the honor of being associated with the very distinguished persons to whom you
 refer who are going to promote the noble
 and most important cause of peace
 throughout the civilized world
 As soon as the telegram of regret
 was received from President Diaz. Rayne
 Davis. the secretary. wired asking him
 to send the vice president some other
 member of his cabinet to represent him,
 and favorable response is expected.
 The sessions of the conference are to
 begin on Sunday, April 4. On that night
 a musical service will be held in Carne- gle hall, or in a larger auditorium if
 necessary, which will be conducted by
 Dr. Frank Damrosch. Many of the lead ing musical organizations in the city will
 take part.
 Brief addresses will be made by Arch
 bishop Farley, Bishop Potter, Bishop Vim cent. and Rabbi Hirsch of Chicag go In addition to the plans for the Sunday night musical service the committee will
 communicate with all the churches in