Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-09
AVOIDANCE. Of WAR
international Conference to Be
- Held Here Next Week. = :
SESSIONS FOR THREE DAYS
Substitution of Arbitration for Force
to Be Discussed.
NOTED MEN WILL BE HEARD
Meeting of the American Society for
the Judicial Settlement Of In
ternational Disputes.
SESSIONS FOR THREE DAYS


When the American Society for the
Judicial Settlement Of. International DIS
putes opens its international conference
In this city next Thursday evening at
O'Clock high officials OF the United States
and foreign governments. distinguished
jurists and writer's viii be In attendance.
The sessions will be held at the New
Willard Hotel.
Secretary Knox Is to preside Thursday
evening. Cardinal Gibbons Is to pronounce
the invocation. while addresses are to be
delivered as follows: Senator Root OF
New York, The Importance o. judicial
Sc Element: Mr.. Justice Riddle of the
Kings Bench Division High Court OF JUS
tice, Ontario, The International Rela-
tons Between the United States and
Canada; John w. Foster. former Sec
rotary of State, Were the Questions In
volved in the Foreign Wars of the United
States of Such Nature That They Could
Have Been Submitted to Arbitration or
Settled Without Recourse to War;; Mr..
Justice Brown. United States Supreme
Court, Interstate Controversies In the
Supreme Court of the United States;
Andrew Carnegie, THE Moral Issue In
War"
Fridays Sessions.
The second session will open Friday
morning at 10 o'clock, with John Hays
Hammond, vice president Of the society
presiding. The following addresses wilt
be given: Frederick D. Mckinney, lob
jections to the Present Hague Court; A.
H. Snow. THE Development of the Amer
lean Doctrine Of Jurisdiction OF Courts
over States; Eugene Wambaugh. Why
the Growth of Law Is Aided by Courts
More Than by COMMISSIONS; j. II. Raj
ston, Some Considerations as to- Inter
national Arbitral Courts; H. B. F. Mac
farland, The Difficulties In the Way Of
the Success of Our OBJECT; Charles No
BILE Gregory, Aviation as Affecting the
Judicial Settlement OF International Dis
l,utes.''
Another session is to be held Friday
evening at 8 o'clock, with James Brown
Scott, president of the society, in the
chair. Those who will speak are: The
French ambassador, THE Aims OF This
Society; Andrew J.; Montasue' Inc Inc
ternational Court; Simeon E. BALDWIN.
Evolution Of the International Court:
Francis B. Loomis. THE Price of Peace,
and David Starr Jordan, THE Waste OF
Nations"
Saturdays Session and Banquet.
Theodo.e Marburg is to preside at the
session Saturday morning. The addresses
are to be as follows: Defects OF Aroi-
tration as a Means Of Settling Disputes,
Charles w. Eliot; The Jurisdiction OF
the Supreme Court of the United States
Over the Controversies Of the States
Prototype in the international Court OF
Arbtral Justice" frederick N. Judson;
THE Source of International Law"
F-W Hirst: Some Reasons Why judi
cial Methods for Settlement OF Interna~
tional Disputes are Superior to Other
Methods Rear Admiral stockton. u. s.
N: Between Diplomacy. and Watt.
Harry Pratt Judson; Some OF the
Things That Must Be Done In Order
to Secure Permanent judicial Court for
the Settlement Of International Difiicul-
ties.'- Edwin CHM. +
At banquet Saturday night. with Gen.
Stuart L. Woodford as toastmaster. the
speakers will be President Taft. Joseph
H. Choate. Maj Gen. Frederick d. Grant.
U. s. A.: Representative Richard Bar
thofdt Of Missouri, Thomas Nelson Page,
Martin w. Littleton and ". Bourke Cock
ran.