Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-06
IN BEHALF OF PEACE
Plans for Coming National Arbi-
tration Congress.
EMINENT MEN INTERESTED
Branch of the Association for Interna-
tional Cancellation.
TO SUBSTITUTE LAW FOR WAR
Proposed to Demonstrate to Europe
solidity and Unanimity of Ameri-
can Sentiment on Subject.
TO SUBSTITUTE LAW FOR WAR


their participation in the national arbitra-
ton congress to be held at New York April
1917, inclusive
The Association for International Con-
Citation was organized by Baron Estour-
nelles, the eminent French senator. The
French committee contains representative
men from every department of activity.
Branches have been organized along the
same lines in twenty-one countries. Re-
Gently small executive committee from
the American branch of lie association
was organized at New York with assured
financial support, in order to assist the ar
bitration group in congress to accomplish
all that Is possible in the establishment of
law instead of war in International affairs
This committee has opened an Office at
New York and at Washington in connec-
ton with the arbitration group, and will
conduct vigorous campaign in the cause
of arbitration in cooperation with the
lnterparliamentary Union.
The Legislative Committee.
Plans for the legislative committee of the
coming Congress have been completed as
well as the program of that session of the
congress which will be devoted to the legis-
lative and judicial phases of the arbitration
movement
The legislative committee contains the
following members of the Senate: Bacon
(Ga.), McCreary RyD, Overman On c.,
Knox Pa.) Latimer Is c. and some
others who have not yet been seen. The
members of the House on the committee
are Taylor (Ala), Rodenberg Qll), Hepburn
Qowa), James Ry), Broussard Ua),
Williams CMiss), Norris (Neb.), Parsons
On. ", Burton (Ohio), Moon Pa),
Granger R. -, Sladen CTeXas), and Cows.
Woodruff of Connecticut Warfield of Mary
land, Guild of Massachusetts, Hughes of
New York. Glenn of North Carolina Ansell
of South Carolina and Swanson of Vir-
ginia.
The Wednesday session of the congress
will be devoted to the discussion of the
interparliamentary plan approved at the
London conference in July upon motion of
the members of the American delegation.
Mr.. Bartholdt will explain the plan; Mr..
Williams, who was the leading democratic
member of the American delegation. will
discuss payment of adequate salaries to the
judges of The Hague court; Senators
Bacon. Foraker Daniel and Clarke of Ar
kansas will be requested to explain the
Senate'S relation to the arbitration move
ment Cows Hughes of New York Guild
of Massachusetts and Taylor of Tennessee
will also speak on the legislative phase of
the question; Justices Brewer and Gray
will handle the judicial part of the prob
lem.
This session of the congress will be
followed by a dinner, which will be at
tended by at least thousand of the rep
resentative men from every department
of life in every state.
Purpose Of the Congress.
Converting, as it WILL on the eve Of the
second Hague conference, and being COM
posed CT the representative men of Amer
lea, this congress will crystalline American
sentiment on the question of arbitration,
and will demonstrate to the American del
egates to the second Hague conference and
also to the governments of Europe that
America is solid for every progressive idea
which is practical at the present time and
is ready to move steadily toward the SUBJ
stitution of a system of law, duly declared
and administered, for war in international
affairs
This congress will come immedia tely
after the celebration at Pfttsburg of the
opening OF the Carnegie Institute. About
fifty eminent Europeans will be present at
that function, and they have all consented
to take part in the congress at New York
Among them may be mentioned Baron
d Estournelles of France and Descamps of
Belgium both Of whom are members OF
The Hague court; T. Moberly Bell, man.
ager of the London Times; eminent edu-
Gators from oxford and Cambridge and
personal representative sent by the En-
peror of Germany, who Is a member OF the
nobility and of the German imperial par
Lament.
The general purpose of this congress can
be gathered from the foregoing The plan
for making it practical as we'll as progress
sive Is nearly completed and the controu-
ing idea Is to eliminate all questions which
would cause a division of opinion and to
concentrate the thought of the congress on
those ideas upon which Americans can be
made of one mind, irrespective of political
or personal considerations Committees
as high in character and as complete as
the legislative one have been organized for
each department of life.
The Judiciary Committee.
The existence of an international court.
even though it has no Jurisdiction, has
caused American judges to consider the
question of making this court an integral
part of the worlds judicial machinery for
the administration of law in International
affairs. Judge George c. Holt, United
States district judge, is chairman of the
ciated Justices Day and Moody of the
Supreme Court, federal judge from each
of the nine circuits and number of the
chief justices Of the important states not
represented by a federal judge.
This committee will see that the jurists
of America are strongly represented In this
congress and that they formulate a plan
for enabling the United States to take
leading part in the arbitration movement
without running counter to the Constitution
of the United States.
They will be assisted in this work by the
leading senators who are going to take
part in the congress.
Committee on Comerce and Industry.
The committee on commerce and indus
try will be composed of the heads of all
the important commercial organizations at
or near New York and will occupy itself
with securing the attendance of representa-
tives from the leading commercial organi-
cations throughout the country. The New
York chamber of commerce will take &C
ton to insure the proper participation of
these commercial bodies in the congress.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, the president of the
American Federation of Labor, has con-
scented to address the congress at a great
meeting which is being organized by Mr.
Charles Sprague Smith of the Peoples In
stitute.
The concerted movement among states
men for a system of International arbitra-
ton was initiated in 1887 by the labor mem
bers OF the British parliament, and resulted
in the organization of the ter-Parliament-
arr Union in 1859. This union now contains
over two thousand meml ers, all of whom
have seats in some national parliament
Since the London session IF this union in
July last year the American Federation of
Labor has Endorsed the progressive propo-
sitions which were carried at that confer
ence through the efforts Of the delegates
from the United States Congress, headed
by Mr.. Bartholdt.
These facts make 1t certain that the labor
organizations of America will be strongly
tod Of ofN