The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22
THE SECOND PEACE CONFERENCE.
James Brown scott. At . Dinner Given In
isis Honor, Tells OF lts Achievements.

james Brown scott. At q Dinner Given In
isis Honor, Tells OF ItB Achievements.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7l.-At a Inner
given in his honor at the New Willard Hotel
tonight James Brown Scott. the solicitor
Of the State Department and technical
expert of the American delegation TO the
second Hague peace conference last sum-
mer, said that the work accomplished by the
conference was a great advance and i'm
provement on the achievements of the
first conference. The dinner was given
by Mr.. SCOTS associates on the faculty OF
George Washington University and other
friends in official life in Washington in
recognition of his services at the conference.
Covers were laid for ninety guests. Henry
b. F. MacFariand. president of the Board
OF Commissioners of the District OF Column
bia, was toastmaster.
After outlining the work Of the first
Hague conference and comparing IL with
h accomplishments OF the second confer
ence, Mr., Scott said:
We are now prepared to answer the oues-
tion whether the Second international Peace
Conference was in reality a peace conference
and whether IL deserves a successor. IL was
international because the nations OF the
world were represented. The first confer
.'ence invited but a fraction of the ndepen-
dent sOveTeignties the second conference
invited fOrty-siX nations and forty-fOur at
tended. u was a peace conference because
its great measures sou ght. by preventing a
recourse to arms. not only to preserve but
TO establish peace.
First 1t revised the convention for the
pacific solution of international conflicts 80
a. 10 make IL more comprehensive and more
adequate to meet the purpose for which IL
was created.
Second 1t agrees unanimously to renounce
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national difficulties arising out OF contract
indebtedness.
Third II established an internatiOnal court
of prize in order that the captor's acts should
no longer be Judged under the bias of national
prejudice, but should be approved or dis
approved and the rights of ~neutrals safe
guarded by an international court in which
the belligerent "a well as the neutral interests
are represented.
Fourth-lt unanimously recognized the
principle Of obligatory arbitration and stated
with unanimity that certain great questions
of a judicial nature. especially the interpre-
tation and application of international con-
ventiOL.-, are susceptible of obligatory ar
bitratiOn without restriction
Finh-It laid the foundations. indeed
esta blished. a court Of arbitral Justice, leav-
ing. however. the appointment OF the Judges
70 the subsequent INCREMENT OF interested
nations.
Sixth-It provided that a third interim
tional conference Of peace meet approx
matPly light years hence under charge Of
the Powers. and hat this conference OrRanize
and conduct its proceedings under n sense Of
international responsibility and under the
denomination Of no one nation.
submit. therefore. that the second inter
national pence conference justified not only
its name but its calling. that il was worthy
Of its great predecessor: that its meeting
has bettered the world and given mank ina
a hope for the future. and II therefore de-
serves a successor.
Speeches we're ais made by President
Needham of George Washington Univer-
sity. Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court
Of the United States. President Woodward
of the Carnegie Institution, Mgr. O'Connell
Of the Catholic University and Judge Nor
row and Senator Flint OF California.