The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
INTERNATIONAL LAW
 AMONG THE SCIENCES Chief Justice Baldwin Ad- dresses Representatives
 of Many Nations. LEADS TOWARD PEACE Development of Legal Rela- tions Between Countries
 Reviewed.
LEADS TOWARD PEACE

Portland, Me-, Aug. 29.-Members of
 the legal fraternity prominent in the affairs of the world and representing
 the principal countries of Europe and America, are in attendance at the twenty-sixth annual conference of the
 International Law association, which
 was opened to-day and will be in ses- sion until Saturday. This is the sec
 ond time the association has held a
 conference in. the United States.
 The object of this session is to ad- vance the scienc of jurisprudence,
 promote the administration of justice
 and uniformity of legislation through
 out the Union, uphold the honor of the
 profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among members of the American bar.
 The conference was arranged to be held in this city In response to an Invitation from the American Bar ass
 sociation, whose convention was con- cluded yesterday, and 1t is being at tended by many of the members of the latter organization.
 Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin of
 Connecticut, honorary president of its
 association, made the inaugural ad-
 dress, speaking in part as follows:
 Americans ai@ glad to receive this | association for a second time, and glad
 to be able to congratulate it on the
 substantial progress made since our
 Buffalo meeting of 1899 in advancing the science which 1t was organized to promote The first conference of peace
 at The Hague has just closed it's ses- sion, and we were looking with hope, but hardly with confidence, for fa- vorable outcome of it's project for es-
 tablishing 8 court of nations. Again
 we meet at time when similar con- ference of peace is sitting at The Hague; but with what different senti-
 ments and anticipations in regard to it's power for good. The court which the first conference proposed has proved itself an effective instrument
 for the settlement of international dis l DultSs It IldS NllAtChGSQ tllO tLtiO OA
 international law to a position among the sciences. It has shown that it is law, and has a sanction-the all-con1- polling sanction of the public opinion of the world. "The progress of international law in modern times has been largely Tn the direction of preventing war. It has al-
 so been largely In the direction or anne | rxy1tiah vyn I brings One is as important at the oth- er for the absolute prevention ot war | in however remote future, is to the scientific student of history and pscy- | chology impossible unless q all nations 1 cline to an equal plane of civilization and morals and that is far higher
 plane than any nation has yet attain | ed
 Tt must be frankly acknowledged to | be precisely here that we find the most | serious obstacles to the reform and cod | ificGtion of international law. The dlf- | ferent powers still represent very dtf ] ferent states of social advancement. l Nevertheless the theory of equality be- | tween nations is the very soul of the | science which we meet to cuItivate' l Tt is not by universal lnslstence on | this rule of equality that those who would advance the place of information 1 al law as social force can pest se- l cure their end'
 AL the CloSeOt the duuTeSS oL JuuSe 1 Baldwin, Lord Justice Kennedy took the | chair
 Dr. w. Evans Darby, secretary of the
 peace society, London, read paper on l Intermittent Progress of international | Arbitration"
 ! British Ambassador Bryce addressed
 the conference for a few minutes. 1 Cephas Brainerd of New York, for the | executive committee, reported the list
 )of officers for the ensuing year, which was elected, as follows:
 Honorary president of conference, | Simeon E. Baldwin, LID. chief jus
 tice of the supreme court of errors,
 Connectticut; president, Rt, Hon, Lord
 peals London; vice presidents, Cephas Brainard, New York; Alton B. Parker. 1 New York; Charles B. Elliott Mtnne- | apolis; L. J. Leranger Montreal; sec l retaries Charles c. Hyde Chicago and
 Forty new members were elected. G. G. Phillimore, London,