New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-21
HONOR KING At MOHONK.
Drs. Butler and Smiley and Dean
of Worcester Speak.
BRYAN TALKS FOR PEACE
Platform Adopted Commends
President, Secretary Knox
and Mr.. Roosevelt.

Mohonk Lake, N. Y, May 20.-A short
service in memory of King Edward VII
preceded the regular session of the Lake
Mohonk Conference on International Arbi-
tration to-day. Remarks were made by
President Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. AL
bert K. Smiley and Dean w Moore Eide of
Worcester, England.
The 500 prize given by Chester De Witt
Pugsley for the best essay on international
arbitration by college student was for
mally presented to George Knowles Gard
ner, Harvard sophomore, this years win
ner.
The business committee presented a IA
vorable report on a resolution by Dr. Ly-
man Abbott providing for the appointment
Of a committee to recommend at next year s
conference the best method of giving the
United States government the power to en-
force its treaty obligations in the federal
courts. and generally to furnish adequate
protection to non-naturalized residents The
committee also reported resolutions gympa-
thetic with the proposed church worlds
peace legue, and providing for committee
to cooperate in the celebration of century
of peace with Canada in 1914
Platform Adopted.
The conference adopted the resolutions
presented by the business committee. and
the following platform, the latter by
unanimous vote:
The sixteenth annual Lake Mohonk Con-
ference on International Arbitration con-
graduates the people of the United States
on the marked progress which the past
Year has witnessed in the age-long struggle
Tor the substitution OF the reign of law
f3r the reign of force in international
afIalrs 1t notes with deep satisfaction
the significant announcement of the Secre-
tary of State that the proposed constitu-
non OF the international Court of Arbitral
justice, recommended to the powers in his
circular note Of October IS, 1909, has been
received with SO much favor to insure
the establishment of such a. court in the
near future.
The conference has further noted, with
profound satisfaction, President Tafts re-
cent declaration in favor OF the submission
10 arbitration of matters of difference be-
tween nations, without reservation Of ques-
tons deemed to affect the national honor:
and the conference expresses the earnest
hope that the President and Senate will
give effect to this wise and farseeing
declaration by entering upon the negotia-
ton of general treaties of arbitration of
THIS character at the earliest practicable
moment.
The conference reaffirms It's declaration
Of last year respecting the portentous
growth CT military and naval establish
ments and calls renewed attention to the
fact that the rapid development of the in
sten1alit I'll of law and 5Estiee for the
nishes to the craftsmanship of the civilized
world the long desired opportunity of limit
ing by agreement the further increase Of
ornaments
The coming celebration of the Tooth ami
versary of the agreement between Great
Britain and the United States definitely
limiting their naval force to 400 tons and
four 18-pounders on the Great Lakes and
the St. Lawrence River calls renewed
attention to the continued menace to the
peace of the world caused by prevailing
conditions elsewhere, and emphasizes the
fact, so well expressed by former President
Roosevelt in his Christiania. address, that,
with sincerity of purpose, the great powers
of the world should find no insurmountable
difficulty in reaching an agreement which
would put an end to the present costly and
growing extravaganza Of the expenditure
in naval ornaments.