The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-13
NATIONAL PEACE CON-
GREss coNvENEs SUNDAY.

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| New York, April 13.-Final arrange
ments were made today by the various
committees for the opening tomorrow
of the first national arbitration and
| world. Tae first session will be held
| Sunday evening in Carnegie hall and
will consist mainly of a musical ser
vice, conducted by Frank Damrosch
| in which all the leading concert or.
ganizations of the city will take part
Brief speeches will be made by Bishop
Potter, Archbishop Farley, Bishop Vim
cent and Rabbi Hirsch. Peace services
will also be held in nearly all the
churches Of Greater New York
The formal opening of the congress
will take place Monday afternoon,
when addresses will be made by Sec
retary Elihu Root and Governor Hig-
gins OF New York. Andrew Carnegie
session and the speakers will include
Ambassador Bryce, w. T. Stead, edi-
tor of the London Review of Reviews
Baron d'EstourneIles de Constant,
head of the French section of the In
ternational conference, and Baron Des
camps. Belgian minister of state and
a member of the Hague arbitration
court
The relation of women to the peace
movement will be considered at the
session Tuesday morning. Addresses
will be made by Miss Jane Adams,
head of Hull house, Chicago; Mrs.
Lucia Ames of Boston; Mrs. Ellen M.
Henrotin of Chicago, former president
mems clubs; Mrs. Frederick Nathan
of New York, and others. Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe of Boston and Mrs. May
Wright Sewall of Indiana will be the
guests of honor at the meeting, which
will be presided over by Mrs. Anna
Carlin Spencer.
The school children of New York
will be given an inning Tuesday after
noo1, when a session for their bene-
fit will be presided over by William
II. Maxwell, superintendent of the
New York schools. A meeting for col
lege students will be held Tuesday
night, the speakers including Presi- |
dent woodrow Wilson of Princeton,
President Elliott of Harvard, Presi- |
dent Alderman of Virginia, President
James of Illinois and others. The |
meeting is confidently expected to be |
the greatest gathering of university
and college presidents ever held in |
this country. Nearly every institution |
Of higher learning in the United Sta
tes will be represented. The glee
clubs of Yale and Columbia will sing
at the session. O1 the same evening |
4 wage workers meeting will be held,
the speakers including President Sam
Iel Gompers of the American Fedora
ion of Labor and President John Nit
,hell of the United Mine Mine Work
ers of America.
The principal session of the con-
yress will be held Wednesday after
noon, the speakers on the program
William Jennings Bryan.
Justice Brewer, Senators Lodge and
Bacon and Representatives Barth-
oldt, Williams and Burton. At this
meeting the great objects of the con-
ference will be taken up and fully dis
,ussed. The subjects to be considered
include the establishment of general
arbitration treaties between all ma
ions; the inauguration of a congress
If powers at first only advisory in
is character, but gradually increasing
n scope and powers and envolvi1g
l code of international law; the found
ng of a small international police
'orce. to cope with the possibility of
civil war, and a gradual partial dis
following the plan used SO
by Chile and Argentina.
Did time enemies. 1t is likely that
-hese recommendations will be made
by the American delegates to the sec
md Hague conference in June.
The congress will come to a close
Wednesday night with a banquet at
which President Roosevelt will deliver
he principal address. Other speakers
include Earl Grey, governor general
If Canada; Senator Baron d'EstournelI
es de Constant of France; Sir Robert
Cranstol. lord provost of Edinburgh
President Samuel and Editor Stead.
Among the distinguished foreigners
who will be guests OF honor during the
congress are William r. Cremer, NJ.
P, founder of the Inter-Parliamentary
raion in Great Britain; Lord Wearvale
president of the union; DR.. E. S. Rob
arts of Cambridge university; DIR. Jno.
2hys of Oxford university; Sir Will
lam Turner of Edinburgh university;
Dr. John Marshall Land Of Aberdeen
C. F. Moberly Bell, mana
ger OF the London Times: Clement
Shorter, editor of the London Sphere,
md Hammond Hall, editor of the Lon
lon Daily Graphic. all representing
Great Britain.
In addition to Baron d'Estournelles
ie Constant. the delegation from Eu-
-ope includes Leonce Benedite. direc-
or ne foo Iuxemhourp gallery. II /