The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-25
Dr. Butler Makes Public the Plans of Carnegie Peace
 Endowment
PROMINENT MEN
 DELIVER SPEECHES
Speakers Representing All Nations Tell of Plans for International Arbitration Courts and
 Worldwide Peace

WI io- W tdC ! CotS 1 Lake Mohonk, N. r., May 24.-At the opening today of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia unl- versity, presiding officer of the confer ence, for the first time made public the plans of the Carnegie endowment for in- national peace
 Dr. Butler said in part:
 '"The trustees of the endowment believe the leading jurists and economists of the world should be set to work to ascer- tain Just what have been and what are the legal and economic incidents of war, and just what are the legal and economic advantages to follow upon an organlza- tion of the world Into single group of friendly and cooperative nations, bound together by the tie of a judicial system resting upon the moral consciousness of mankind from whose findings there. can be no successful appeal.
 1 The trustees have determined to or- ganize the undertaking as a great insti- tuition for research and public education and to carry on its work in three divisions
 "a division of international law. one of economies and history and the third Of intercourse and education" It Is announced by pr. Butler that tho division of international law will be un- der the direction of Prof. James Brown Scott, known for his work as diplomatist and arbiter. He will be assisted by a ] board of consultation to comprise emil nent men of all nations.
 | The division of economies and history will be under the direction of Prof. John Bates Clark of Columbia university. He will be assisted by economists from sew eral countries.
 The director for the third division has not yet been designated.
 Dr. Butler predicted the establishment
 Of the "internatiopal court of arhitral
 justice" before the time of the third
 Hague peace conference.
 Bryan Leads Discussion
 William J. Bryan led the general dis cussion. He contended that the proposed Anglo-American treaty meant the end of war.
 He attacked the sensational press and denounced newspapers which put money | above patriotism and scareheads above, sincerity.
 l He believed, however, that the chief source of trouble was the armor piate in- dustry. -. l Tonights session was international in \ character, among the speakers being Senor Don Ignacio Calderon. minister of Bolivia; Dr. Francisco J. Yanes of Wash ington, assistant director of the Pan American nnion Baron DEstournelles D | de Constant, Mirza Ali Kuli Khan, charge d'affaires of the Persian legation, and John Hicks of Oshkosh. Wis, former min- ister to Peru and Chile.
 Smiley Speaks
 Albert R. Smiley, founder and host of the Lake Mohonk conference on inter national arbitration, welcomed the members here today at their seven teenth annual meeting. He said. In part: For century the conflicting claims of Great Britain and this coun- try with reference to the Newfound- land fisheries baffled diplomacy. Yet last Semptember the question was set tied amicably, and without causing a ripple In the diplomatic world, by the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague The very next month our last great outstanding difficulty with Venezuela the Orinoco steamship I ,jcase-was settled by the same court. Four months later the delicate Savar- kar dispute between Great Britain and France was the subject of the courts award. Even now 1t has under con- sideration a question of war claims which has been troubling Russia and Turkey for thirty-three years and be- fore the end of the present year 1t will probably have passed upon a financial | dispute between Italy and Peru. Surely this is not 6 bad years work for an institution whose defects we admit and of whose life we were not so certain few years ago. What a promise of success for a real interna- | tional court of justice when it comes! | Some years ago treaties even of limited arbitration attracted much at tention, but their number increased we came to take them as a matter of | course. Within the year at least nfne | treaties representing six American and six European nations have been added to the long list. making according | to some authoritative English statistics | 142 in all. We rightly feel proud of our 25 treaties. but wonder how many of us know that our great party to 2S such treaties. We should | recognize more fully the part the nations to the south of us are taking in this movement. We have much to learn from them, not the least Of which is the lesson of the Central American court of justice. There. In | Central America, is a real interne- tional court of justice for five nations. with compulsory Jurisdiction sover all their differences-the first institution | in the world which has sat in judG- ment upon nations! The Central American peace conference which in 1907 created the court, has during the Iyear held its third annual meeting. | This, with the fourth Pan-AmerfcAn conference held in Buenos Ayrss last summer, give the American nations . worthy showing In the years events. I Movement Growing Our movement is no longer con- fined to individuals or societies. It has become governmental. President Taft and Secretary Knox are among It's strongest supporters. and both have | made noteworthy utterances in it's fa- vor Those who year ago thought the President assumed an untenable position in advocating unlimited arbi- tration have in recent months had ample proof of his sincerity Not only is he earnestly engaged in negotiating with Great Britain treaty of unlimited | scope but we have his clear inference | that he hopes the treaty will serve as l a model for other treaties, and, per- haps. for a world treaty. The adoption
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