The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
NO ARBITRATION OF THE CANAL DISPUTE, DECLARES MIR. MANN Says Fair Tribunal to Try Matter Could Not Be
 Secured
BUSINESS POWER
 IN PREVENTING WAR
Hershey Agues That International Business Solves Problems as Big as Any That Face Advocates
 of Worldwide Peace

Washington, December 21.-The Gnitee States never could submit the Panama canal controversy with Great Britain te an international court of arbitration. de clared Representative Mann of Illinois republican floor leader of the House in ar address tonight at the banquet whicf brought to q close the conference here oi the American Society for the Judicia Settlement of International Disputes Several speakers during the conference had urged such arbitration.
 The question was submitted to- fail jury here. the Congress of the United States, said Mir. Mann. and this eoun- try has spoken upon a question which is as much her international affair as any that could arise. He asserted that the rest of the world was opposed tc the United States in the Panama matter and that an international court could not decide the question equitaby.
 Rear Admiral Wainwright threw an- other bomb shell into the peace camr when he expressed the opinion that jus tice and truth could not prevail with out the navy back of it. that truth un- armed peace was such as had existed in China for many years and that "the navy is the ant-toxin for war, to be taken in this country in doses of four battieships annually He voiced the hope that the time would come when tho great fleets of the world would be used for universal peace.
 A message from President Taft. now on a battleship on his way 10 Panama, to Dr. James Brown Scott. Secretary of the society said that the President g whole ideai was that of court of arbi- tration for SCI ol ernational controversies aN ne ase favored the general eata iies with Great Britain ana AZ long step toward an asblts coft isss jurisdic- ton would pe lnnessesl uiflh ely to8in- clude all rqaei6ie air t1a ef n interna- tional chr gaqtert
 That .,tana rs,t Hr break her ties with fig fl.s country was the message glsfn bg Pfcf George M Wron fefoaso sasled that this unior hse cement the frier tss tpson tae .wo English spe Hefiop
 { n A<tieH or R solution
 a 5n sAsi fhe eti3f sne court of the
 staten rrgsi efg to act as arbiter a sssEt tionii lltpef $ made at today's
 sion pf .ie ema was promptly re- .etlfa hf asos sas by Bert Russell 8f ofss< tr, tffJ
 ssk eaert of New York, wfio .iaficsiiai ieiF [. ID the cudgels against tfs fs9figg tfigf d that it would be the atlli 5ta lety for a society whose fas.c I4tsEipie sas respect for law to 4.,.sE frinmend something which stii)H cell ry Co the constitution of tss,g United fes The motion was not fsoAde3 aH9 was dropped
 o )n on Wheeler Motion
 at' vas takee by tiie society to- aa bn esolntion dffered last night by
 nt ctf Wheeler of New York to the fafef the United States should de-
 Willingness 10 submit fo arbitra- ee .r Panama csh9 controversy be-
 reat Britain and this country.
 cutiFe committed, to which the on was referrtd. made no recofn-
 ion. declaring lin it's opinion that
 .sost good could be accomplished " rgaEization by ptrnitting free indi- fl. discussion of all questions with Pmnitting the society as q whole
 iAness is the great social power
 1wil do more than any other factor pHging about the establishment Of ste nttiona1 tribunals is the opfpiou ex- I<ss by 0mer F. Hershey. Baltimore hs ~ bed that big international business SpNes )eacehly problems as great as any
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