The Washington herald., 1913-08-17
PEACE MESSAGE
We'll RECEIVED
Adopted BY the international
Suffrage Censress at
Budapest.
CARRIED RY AMERICANS
CARRIED By AMERICANS
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, At Age Of
EishB-Two, Headed Delegation
from Wonanis Republic.

Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, who was
ambassador from the Woman's Repub-
lie to the National Council Of Women
Voters. the meeting Of which ad-
journed here Friday. recently has re-
turned from Europe, where she was
sent as the head of a delegation of
twenty ambassadors from the Woman's
Republic, Of which she Is attorney gen.
eral, to the International Suffrage Con.
gress at Budapest. Hungary.
The party left New York May 2s on
a Hamburg-American Line steamer
After landing at Hamburg. the party
lin and Vienna. A peace message
asking the congress to cooperate with
the Woman's Republic to do away with
war, was carried by the delegates.
A resume Of this message was talked
into a phonograph by Mrs. Lockwood
by invitation Of a phonograph company,
in order that records Of the message
might be sent to all parts of the world.
The message of Mrs. Lockwood wa.
unanimously Endorsed by the congress in
the following resolution:
Resolved. by this international body
that the voice of its membership is op-
posed to war, as against the best inter.
ests Of humanity. and that the increase
VI IQe lallOuS Is opposed
to the public good;
Wherefore, We as a body recommend
that all International difficulties here
after be settled judiciaIly. or by refer
ence to The Hague Court, that shall fail
Of settlement by arbitration and con-
ciliation."
Attended Several Colleges.
8 At eighty-two Mrs. Lockwood is in
en0d hao1fh Che horn q RnvalfOn
N. Y, in 1880. and was educated first at
Genessee College, Lima, N. Y. Later she
attended Syracuse University. the Ma
tional University Law School here, and
Oxford University, England.
( Mrs. Lockwood was admitted about
forty years ago to practice before the
District Supreme Court and has been in
practice here since then. In 1879 she was
admitted to the bar of the Supreme
of three years, during which she drafted
and got through Congress a bill to ad-
NIT women to practice.
As a lecturer Mrs. Lockwood has won
fame. She has visited in this capacity
nearly every State and all of the more
prominent cities Mrs. Lockwood has
been connected with many important law
cases, probably the most prominent of
which was the Myra Clark Gaines will
Ease. Cu d-COuut VI "HlSh 6hC was do-
mitted to practice at the New York Su-
preme Court bar; the Eastern Cherokee
case in the Court of Claims, in which
she was an attorney of record, and with
other attorneys obtained a judgment
against the government for about
S. OOo, 900, and the Gage insanity case. in
which she won freedom for her client
and a vindication against twenty-five
witnesses put upon the stand for the de-
;na1, in0 nil tad
clans, two medical experts and the su-
pcrintendent of the Government Hospital
for the Insane. She was successful IN
helping to obtain $4,000 for her client in
the Chippewa case and now Is one OF
the attorneys in the Winton case against
the Choctaws.
Ran Twice for President.
Mrs. Lockwood, incidental to her in
terest in suffrage, has been working
for the recognition politically Of resi-
dents of the District. and has been
helping in the attempt to obtain
delegate in Congress.
In 1884 Mrs. Lockwood was nomi-
mated by the Equal Rights party for
President, and again was nominated in
1888. In 1896 she was sent by the
State Department to Geneva to repre-
sent this country at the Congress of
Charities and Corrections. She has
been a delegate TO a number OF con-
ferences, which have forced her to
make about dozen trips to Europe.
Mrs. Lockwood is a life member OF
the Universal Peace Union, and is as
sociate editor of the Peacemaker mag
azine. During her work Mrs. Lock-
wood has prepared eight peace PAM
phlets. the last of which was entitled
An International Arbitration Court.
or Chapter in History"