Evening star., 1909-04-19
WILL MEET FRIDAY
American Society of Interna-
ti0naI Law.
TO TAKE UP BIG TOPICS
Relations Between Countries of the
World.
ROOT WILL PRESIDE
Members Will Be Received at the
White House-Banquet to Be
Given Saturday Night.

Questions having an important bearing
upon the character of the relations be-
tween the countries of the world will be
the subject of addresses by some OF the
country's most eminent students of In
ternational Jurisprudence at the third an
nual meeting of the American Society of
International Law. which will be held In
this city next Friday and Saturday An
interesting program has been arranged
By the committee In charge for the four
sessions which will be held. President
Taft, who is one of the vice presidents
Of the society, has agreed to receive the
members at the White House the after
noon of April "a. The annual banquet
Saturday evening at the New Willard
Hotel will bring the meeting to a close.
Opened by Senator Root.
Senator Elihu Root. the president of the
society, will open the meeting at 10 am.
April 23 with an address on THE Rela-
tions Between the Jurisdiction of Ma
tional Courts and International Arbitra-
tion." The topic for the morning ses-
sion. at which John w. Foster. Wayne
MacVeagh, Luis Anderson and Prof. r.
W. Aymar will speak, is Arbitration as
Judicial Remedy; an Examination OF
Concrete Cases Actually Submitted and
Decided by Arbitration, How Far They
Are Of a Judicial Character and How
Far They Have Been Governed by Diplo-
matte Convenience"
At it's second session, to be held at
p.m., Rear Admiral Charles s. Sperry,
United States delegate to the second
Hague peace conference, and Rear Ad-
miral Charles H. Stockton. United States
delegate to the recent international naval
conference at London, will speak upon
the results of the latter conference. j.
Reuben Clark, William j. Calhoun, Fred
eric r. Coudert and Julian w. Mack
will speak during this session on the
topic, The Nature and Definition of
Political Offense in International Extra
dition.'
General addresses will be delivered on
The Development of International Law
BY Judicial Decisions in the United
States at the session beginning at $
pm. Mr.. Justice Brown will speak on
THE Supreme Court" and Mr.. Justice
Peelle will speak about The Court of
Claims Senior Alejanro Alvarez will
discuss American International Law"
One Session Saturday.
Only one session will be held Saturday.
That will be at 10 am. The topics will
be THE Constitution and Powers Which
an International Court Of Arbitral JUS
tice Should Possess" on which Theodore
E. Burton, A. J. Montague and Leo Vo-
gel. minister from Switzerland. will
speak. and THE Equality of Nations .
on which Prof. George w Kirchewey and
Frederick C. Hicks will be the speakers
A general discussion will be held at the
close Of the formal addresses on each
topic, except Friday evening.
1t has been aimed to give continuity
to the proceedings. and make the pub
lshed volume containing them of per-
manent value. Arbitral decisions will be
submitted to a careful and searching
examination, in order to ascertain in how
Tar arbitration has been judicial and in
how far. judged by concrete cases, ma
tions have submitted. and therefore are
willing to submit international controver-
sizes to judicial settlement.
Having thus shown that international
disputes are constantly settled by arbi-
tration and that arbitration either is or
should be judicial rather than diplomatic,
Saturday mornings session will be devot-
ed to consideration of the question
whether permanent court rather than
temporary commissions should not he
constituted in which nation may sue ma
ton without the embarrassment and de-
lay necessarily involved in the selection
OF judges and the constitution Of a court.
In the next place the composition and
necessary powers of the court will receive
careful consideration. and possibly the So
ciety will express it's views upon the mod
ification in actual practice of the theoreti-
cal equality of states.
of a fugitive for an alleged political Of