The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21
OLNEY IS CAUST|C 0N TAKING PANAMA Reviews at Session of American Society International Law REGARDING SANT0 DOMINGO Foster Announces That Roosevelt ls Opposed to Leading Nations on
 Limitation of Size of
 Vessels.

Washington, April 2o.-somewhat crit ical reviews of recent developments ia international affairs was Indulged in at the speech-making session of the Ameri- can Society of International Law, which concluded it's first annual meeting here today. Richard Olney was perhaps the most caustie in his interpretation of the policy of the United States regarding Santo Domingo and the acquisition of the Panama canal zone without compensa- ton to Colombia.
 John W. Foster announced as a fact that President Roosevelt was opposed to some of the leading nations of the world. that we must make a limitation In the size of vessels of war that shall be built in the future.''
 Russia's Changed Attitude. MT. Foster called attention to Russia S changed attitude on the question of dis at the first Hague conference, and she opposed now. Prof. Theodore s. Woolsey of Connecticut urged that wars of pas- sion'' could be abolished if international law should provide that all wars must begin with a proclamation that cool ing time of thirty or sixty days interval intervene between the proclamation and actual hostilities. Such an arrangement would have obviated the South African and also the Russian-Japanese war. Rep resentative Bartholdt spoke of the neces- sity of making The Hague conference permanent, and said that the United States with the impetus to which Presi- dent Roosevelt had achieved, could ac- complish this result by united demand at the next Hague conference.
 K Having for his text the development of international law as a science, MT. Olney first pointed out the necessity of having international law founded on the aggregate action of concert of powers. Mr. Olney then proceeded to discuss more recent events.
 Monroe Doctrine.
 within a comparatively short time" he said, other doctrines have been of ficially and unofficially announced that have been given prestige and currency by being descrbeaaas the Monroe doc Urine, or as necessafy corollaries of it. Under these neaxTdctrines 1t is intimated that if one Anlcficsn state does not be- have itself jscn in lsithcrsjts external or international relatlals, good behavior ac- cording to our own 1standards, of course, it may be forced by the United States and coerced into doing the right thing, and if necessary may hasve it's revenues sequestered and applied by the United States according to the latter's notion of | justice and equity s=
 'It is too plain for discussion that the Monroe doctrine cannot be invoked in | support of any such pretensions: that 1 they are seriously objectionable as cal 1 culated to wound the pride and excite the l enmity. of all other American states an1 | as committing the United States to un- l dertaking so the most vexatious, bur l densoine and dangerous character. l "Our institutions will surely live and | our people continue to prosper without ] the United States converting itself into an international policeman for the Amer | ican continent, or into debt-collecting | agency for the benefit of foreign cred | itor states and their citizens.
 MT. Olney asked how should the Uni l ted States proceed and answered:
 Surely by not making itself a sort of international American boss"
 l He added: Let 1t be assumed, however, as it should be. that the new doctrines, however obnoxious in some aspects, may l and shall be credited to wholly worthy l organ
 Civilization Revealed. l Turning his attention to the isthmus of 1 Panama, Mir Olney' continued:
 | .The United States Is now executing a great public work on territory which but recently was the property of sister re- public. There is no pretense that that