Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-24
LAKE M0H0NK
CONFERENCE
Plans Announced for Carn-
egie Endowment for In
ternational Peace
COURT OF ARB|TRAL JUSTICE
Systematic Movement That Will
Result in Doing Away
With War.

! (By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
F.! Lake Mohonk, ~ Y, May 24.-At
| the opening today of the seventeenth
/ annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk
conference on International arbitra.
ton President Nicholas Murray But
/ Ter OF Columbia University, presiding
officer of the conference. for the first
time made public the plans of the Car
hegie endowment for international
peace.
| DR.. Butler also predicted with au-
thority, the establishment of the i'll
ternational court of arbitral justice
| before the time of the third Hague
peace conference"
! Mr. Butler said: ut has been deter
mined by the trustees of the Carnegie
endowment to organize the undertak-
ing in three parts or divisions: A
division OF international law; a divi-
sion of economics and history and a
division of intercourse and education.
| THE division OF international law
will be under the direction Of Profes
/ sor James Brown Scott. The division
will aim constantly to inculcate the
belief that intercourse between ma
tons should be based on correct and
definite idea of International justice.
THE division of economies and
history will be under the direction of
Professor John Bates Clark, of Co
lumbia University.
This division will aim at the edu-
cation of public opinion and at the
formulation of conclusions that may
serve for the guidance of government.
al policy.
1.-The economic causes and effects OF
war in general will be studied.
THE division of intercourse and
education, the director for which has
not yet been announced, will supple
ment the work of the two other divi.
lsions.''
| Address by A. r. Smiley.
Mohonk Lake. n. T., May 24--Al-
bert X. Smiley, founder and host of the
Lake Mohonk Conference on lnterna-
ltional Arbitration welcomed the mem
bers here today at their 18th annual
meeting. He said. in part: For a
icentury the conflicting claims of Great
j Britain and this country with refer
ence to the Newfoundland fisheries
lbaffled diplomacy. Yet last Septem-
ber the question was settled amcably
! 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 case-was
settled by the same court. Four
months later, the delicate Savarkar
dispute between Great Britain and
France was the subject of the courts
award Even now, it has under con-
sideration question of war claims
which has been troubling Russia and
Turkey for thirty-three years; and be-
for the end of the present year, 1t will
: iprobably have passed upon financial
dispute between Italy and Peru. Sure.
ly this is not bad years work for
ian institution whose defects We admit
| and of whose life we were not so Ger.
tain few years ago. What promise
ot success for real international
court of justice when it comes
Some years ago, treaties even of
limited arbitration attracted much at
tention, but as their number increased
we came to take them as a matter OF
course. Within the year at least nine
treaties representing six American
Iand six European nations have been
f, added to the long list, making accord
ling to some authoritative English sta
itistics 142 in all We rightly fee
proud of our 25 treaties, but wonder
how many of US know that our great
southern neighbor, Brazil, is now q
party to 90 such treaties. We should
; recognize more fully the part the
!. nations to the south of us are taking
in this movement. We have much tG
learn from them, not the least Oi
!. which is the lesson of the Central
American Court of Justice There, in
Central America, is a real interna
> tional court of justice for five nations
with compulsory jurisdiction over all
:, their differences-th 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
year held its third annual meeting
- This, with the fourth Pan-Americar
: Conference held in Buenos Aires last
y summer, give the American nations q
worthy showing in the years events.
Our movement is no longer con
fined to individuals or societies. Il
, has become governmental. Presiden,
Taft and Secretary Knox are among
. its strongest supporters, and both have
made noteworthy utterances in its ia
vor. Those who year ago thought
, the president assumed an untenable
position in advocating unlimited arbi
/. tration have in recent months had am
, pie proof of his sincerity. Not only i.
he earnestly engaged in negotiating
4 with Great Britain a treaty of unlim
E tied scope but We have his clear in
8 ference that he hopes the treaty will
' serve as model for other treaties
;. and, perhaps, for world treaty. Tn,
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