Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-27
GOV. BALDWIN
 ANNOUNCES PLANS Tells American Bar Associa- tion of Plans For Interna-
 tional Academy of Law.
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Problems To Pe Included in Set of Re. ports Ky Carnegie Peace
 Endowment.

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 26.--Plans for the establishment O. an inter- national academy of international law, at the Hague, by tne Carnegie EndoWmen for International lpeace were announced here today by Gov ernor Simeon E. Ba dwin, of Con- necticut. in his annual address be- fee the American 2ar Asso.ia.;on as the director of the associaiian's 's Bureau of Comparative Law.
 Tie interratienal academy. Cover nor Baldwin sail, would be opened in i9l3, ill the Palace of Peace built by MT. Carnegie The sessions will be confined to the monhs of Aue;,s,. September and October The iecIl,r- CTS will be engaged for sins,le year, or ether brief terms, nos more than one coming al time from any one country. The annual grant is 100000 francs.
 Reviewing the work of the Carnegie Q Peace Endowment during the past year, Governor Baldwin said the En- downment had undertaken to com- pile set of reports of all known in- ternational arbitrations, including all decisions of Hague Tribunal, the set to be kept up permanently. The En- dowment also has acquired the right to ask the Institute of 1nternational Law for advice on international law problems, by making an annual srb- vention. The Endowment has a:so provided an annual subvention of 7o,OOO frances of the new Union of International Association which has it's seat at Brussels and the most important work of which is the pub- lication of monthly review .dealing with facts and ideas concerning the common life of the civilized world.
 Governor Baldwin cited as the two most notable advances in interna- tional life during the past year the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by China and the extension of the metric system to Malta, Denmark and Bosnia ia-Herzegovina
 The speaker dealt at length on the years progress in educational mat ters. One of the most significant ad- vances were effected by the city of Dusseldorf, in opening a college for the insll uction of municipal officials or those who hope 10 become such. This year. for the first time, Spain admits women to all her universities and permits them to adopt law or medicine as a profession. The prac- tical working of the Criminal Ap- peal Act in England was also re- viewed.
 The success of compulsory voting laws, as tried in several European countries, was cited as an apparently effective method Of overcoming the laxity of citizens in exercising their prerogative at the polls. Belgium has made voting obligatory for the pas. twenty years, he said, and where the number of voters registered in the entire kingdom twenty years ago was less than 140,000, it is now ten times that. The penalty for failure to vote in Belgium is a small fine, win no provision for Imprisonment, and an elector failing to vote can avoid the penalty by showing suffi- cient cause for not voting to a justice of the peace.
 The plural vote has also tended to increase the interes, in municipal af- fairs requiring public decision. Under the revised Belgian constitu- ton of 1893, property owners, col lege graduates, office holders and those pursuing certain callings im- plying more than ordinary education, received the privilege of casting an additional vote, no one, however to be allowed more than three.