New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-12
FOR ARBITRATION COURT :.
Meeting to Further Establish
ment of international Tribunal.
MANY NATIONS FAVOR PLAN
President Taft Leads Movement
Many Other Distinguished
Speakers on Programme.
from The Tribune Bureau

ashington, Dec. IA meeting OF ma
tionai Importance and international in cfar-
scter will be held in Washington on Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday, 1t is the inter
national conference of the American So
ciety for the Judicial Settlement Of Inter
national Disputes. This association has for
its purpose the creation of permahen.
tribunal for the judicial settlement of IN
ternational controversies, and the creation
of public sentiment, both in this country
and abroad, to induce nations to submit
their international disputes, when suscepu-
BILE of judicial settlement. to permanent
court The idea is that the disputes De
tween nations shall be settled by Judges
acting under the judicial sense OF honorable
obligation. with the judicial idea of impair
TALLY, rather than by diplomacy, actihs
under the diplomatic ideas of honorable
obligation and feeling bound to negotiate
a settlement rather than to pass without
fear or favor upon questions of fact ana
law
Secretary Knox has proposed in a circular
letter addressed to the powers the eStaD-
lshment of such a tribunal, and the re-
sponses to this note have been or such
favorable nature as TO justify the expecta-
ton that this tribunal will he estaohshed
and in operation at The Hague III the near
future. President TAFT is the honorary
president of the society, Whlch VIII Hoid
its conference here this week, anu ii's
given his hearty approval 10 lhe Pi0PE
court. He will speak at the BANQUET WIZ,
10 IN elosa the session OF the conference Oh
Saturday. The other speakers VIII pe t.io
French Ambassador, General ote""i'
Woodfor1 who will act as toasliiA' ' >
General T. d. Grant, Thomas Nelson
Martin W Littleton, ". Bourhe '-->
and Senator I. E. Burton
Al the first session of the conference Sc
Rotary Knox will preside. Inc 1hNoe" -
will be by Cardinal Gibbons ne -.
sneaker will be the Mexican Ambassador
who has been specially desishs'epS ny 'iiN
government to represent IL III INC ~
ence He will be followed by Seha'ol -
whose tonic is THE Importance of Judlciai
Settlement Following Mr.. Root, Nj. JUS
lice Riddle. OF the High Court OF CANADA
,-ilt sneak on The Internatio Relations
po+r,aer the United States and Canaoa'
AZ The second session OF the conference
Theodore NJarburg of Baltimore, preSldeht
NJ the MARYLAND Peace Society. Will pre-
sida The programme Will include the toi-
lowing addresses: Justice Brown Ve'iieo''
international Controversies III the ou-
,,ranna Court OF the United States; FRED
eric, D. Mckinney. Some Practical Cd
sections TO the Present Hague Court
AT the third session James Brown scout
will preside The Minister OF the Ne'her-
lands will be the first speaker. He Will De
followed I,v Joseph II. Choate, who Will
discuss THE Court of Arhitral jurisdiction,
az Adonted at the Second Hague Confer-
ence." Judge Simeon f. Baldwin, who was
recently elected Governor of Connecticut
Will speak on 1.-The Revolution Of the Inter
national Court.
The first speaker at the fourth meeting
will be DR.. Charles W. Eliot, whose SUBJ
i.ct will be Defects of Arbitration as
Means Of Settling Disputes" Frederick NJ.
rudson. of ST. Louis. will discuss The
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court OF the
United States Over the Controversies OF
States" George ". Eirchwey, Of Columbia
University. has for his SUBJECT ne
Sources Of International Law