The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-04-24
Seventh Annual Meeting of
American Society of Inter-
national Law.
ELIHU ROOT TO TALK
DR.. Talcott Williams Director
of School of Journalism
to Speak.
(National News Association

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Pan
anna Canal Tolls question is the prin-
cipal subject of discussion by many
distinguished speakers at the Seventh
Annual Meeting of the American So
ciety of International Law, which
opens here tonight. The general sub
ject, THE International Use of Straits
and Canals With Especial Reference
to the Panama Canal" is the one be-
fore the society at this meeting.
Senator EIihu Root, President of the
Society, who will open the meeting
will devote his address principally to
an appreciation of DR.. Francis Lieber,
whose instructions for the Govern
ment of the Armies of the United
States in the Field" have laid the foun-
dations for the codification of the laws
of war, first by individual nations, and
finally by the Hague Conferences.
Senator Root will be followed by
DR. Talcott Williams, Director of the
Columbia School of Journalism, in
New York City, who will speak on the
share of the United States and it's
diplomatic action in freeing the
worlds waterways from restriction.
Gregers w. w. Gram, Minister of
State of Norway, who is coming to
this country for the special purpose
Of attending the meetings will then
deliver an address on the international
interest in the settlement of the
Panama Canal toll question.
On Isthman Projects.
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at ten a. m. with an historical account
of Isthmian projects by Professor E.
d. Warfield, President of Lafayette
College. He will be followed by Cram
mond Kennedy, an international law
yer and member of the Bar of the
District of Columbia, who will COM
pare tht relative interests of the
United States and Great Britain in the
Western Hemisphere at the different
stages of negotiations concerning the
lsthmian Canal. The main question
IN dispute between Great Britain and
the United States over the exemption
of American coastwise vessels from
the payment of tolls on the Panama
Canal will then be discussed by promi-
nent Navy men and college presidents.
The proceedings will be resumed
Friday afternoon, at which Horace G.
MacFarland, of the District of Column
bia Bar, and William Miller Collier, of
the Bar of the State of New York,
and formerly Minister to Spain, will
discuss the following question
would a subsidy to the amount OF
the tolls granted to American ships
passing through the canal be a dis
elimination prohibited by the treaty
Right of U. S. to Exclude.
At eight o'clock on the same day
Professor Emory r. Johnson, Special
Commissioner of the United States or
Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls, will
discuss, What is the effect of the
exemption of American coastwise
shipping upon Panama Canal rev
enues?" He will be followed upon the
same subject by N. Dwight Harris
Professor of European Diplomatic His
tory in Northwestern University. The
question of the right of the United
States to exclude from the use of the
canal any class of foreign vessels
such as railway-owned vessels, will
then be considered by James w. Gar
ner, Professor of Political Science in
the University of Illinois, and Johr
Foster Dulles, of the New York Bar.