Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14
American Society of Interna-
ti0nal Law Meets Here.
PROGRAM OF THE SESSION
Consideration of the Plans for Third
Conference to Be Entire Subject.
ROOT TO ADDRESS MEMBERS
Senator From New. York Is Presi-
dent of the Organization-Presi-
dent Taft Honorary Officer.

The sixth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Society of International Law viii be
held in this city April 1927 in the Hall
| of the Americas Of the American
i nion The society was organized at
Lake Mohonk. n. Y. January II. 1906.
and its object is to foster the study of
/ International law and promote the estab-
/ lshment of International relations on the
basis of law and Justice Since it's or
! SANITATION the society has held annual
meetings in Washington. at which have
been discussed papers dealing with cur
| rent questions Of International law by
leading authorities on the subject.
This year the society has decided to de-
| vote it's entire session to the considera-
| ton of the program, organization and
| procedure for the third Hague conference.
1t will be recalled that The Hague con-
ference of 1907 recommended to the
powers the holding of a third peace con-
| ference, which might take place within
period similar to that which elapsed be-
| tween the first and second conferences
| and that attention drawn to the
| necessity of preparing the labors Of the
! third conference sufficiently in advance
| to have it's deliberations follow their
| course with the requisite authority and
! speed In order to achieve this OBJ
ject the conference recommended that a
preparatory committee be charged by the
! governments. about two years before the
| probable date of the meeting, with the
/ duty of collecting the various PROPOSE
tons to be brought before the conference,
| to seek out the matters susceptible Of an
: early International settlement, and to
prepare program which the govern
ments should determine upon early
enough to permit of its being thoroughly
| examined in each country. The commit
| tee should further be charged with the
| duty of proposing mode of organization
| and procedure for the conference itself"
A period Of eight years elapsed between
| the holding of the first conference and the
i holding Of the second conference. SO that
! if the recommendation of the second con-
/ ference that the third conference take
place within similar period is carried
| out, the year 1915 will witness the call
ing of the third conference. If the
recommendation of the second confer
] ence that the committee for preparing
the program and organization of the third
| conference be appointed two years in ad-
| vance of the calling Of the conference be
| adopted. this committee will need to be
| appointed in the year 1913
The time has now arrived for the con-
! sideration of the appointment of this
preparatory committee and of. the work
| which it will be expected to do. 1t is
planned by the societies and journals of
| international law to take up the discus
| sion of subjects which should figure in
| the program of the proposed Hague con-
| ference and the method of procedure
| which should be adopted. The American
| Society of International Law will be the
| first of these organizations to take up
| this work.
Root to Open Session.
The session of the society will begin
Thursday evening, April 20, at o'clock
and will be opened by an address by
Senator Root. president. 1t is expected
| that in the course of his remarks Mr.
Root will, as in his previous addresses
before the society, review the interna-
| tional relations of the year. He will
| be followed by two speakers on gen.
eral subjects. Pasquale Fiore. senator
Of Italy and professor of international
| law in the University ~of Naples, will
deliver an address on Some Considera-
! lions on the Past, Present and Future
| of International Law" Oscar Straus.
formerly Secretary of Commerce and
Labor and American ambassador to
Turkey, will speak on THE American
Diplomacy Of Humanity"
! The following morning at 10 O'Clock
the sessions will be resumed by the
reading of general papers on the pro-
gram of the third Hague conference
by Alexandra Alvarez, jurisconsult of
the ministry Of foreign affairs of Chile;
Joaquin D. Casasus, formerly Mexican
Ambassador to the United States; Luis
Anderson, formerly minister Of foreign
/ affairs of Costa Rica, and James Brown
Scott. technical delegate of the United
States to the second peace conference,
and now the chief administrative of
| ficer of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
| The society will reconvene at s
o'clock pm. Friday, and the session
will be opened by the reading of a
paper by George Turner. formerly
/ United States senator from the state
of Washington and now member of the
international joint commission between
the United States and Canada on the
question of general arbitration treaties.
| At the same session papers will be
read by Rear Admiral Charles H.
Stockton. American delegate to the
| London naval conference of 1909 and
| president of George Washington Uni
versity. on The Codification of the
Laws of Naval Warfare: Gen. George
B. Davis. formerly Judge advocate gen.
eral of the United States Army. on THE
! Effects of War Upon International Con-
ventions and Upon Private Contracts"
and Thomas Willing Balch of the
Philadelphia bar, on THE Marine Belt
and the Question of Territorial Wa
| ters.
Sessions End Saturday.
The final session will be held at 10
o'clock Saturday morning, at which a
paper will be read on THE Permanent
Court of International Justice by
James L. Tryon. secretary of the Mas