The Washington times., 1913-12-29
SCIENTISTS To MEET
IN JOINT SESSIONS
Annual Address of Presidents
of Two Organizations to Be
Made Tuesday Night.

With political economists, LEGISLATORS
and statesmen from all parts of the
country, the tenth annual meeting ui
the American Political Science Associa.
1iUn will open in joint session with the
american Association for Labor Legis-
iation. At the Shoreham Hotel Tuesday
afternoon at , O'Clock.
The annual addresses of the presidents
oG the two organizations will be made
Il. an evening session Tuesday, at which
Admiral Charles II. Stockton, president
of George Washington University viii
preside.
Legislative Reference Bureaus" the
subject for the discussion on "Wednesday
afterpoon, will bring out addresses by
Senator Robert L. Owen and Donald
Iaichberg, director of the legislative bu-
reau of the Progressive party.
addresses on Congressional procedure
will be made at the Wednesday night
sessicr by A. Maurice Lowe, 4 Wash
inSton newspaper man. and Dr. J. David
Thompson, law librarian OF Congress
The meeting will close Thursday after
noon.
The program follows:
Tuesday, December 30, p. m.-lnter-
NATIONAL Lew anu 4OiPaOAioN-.
war Claims in International Law"
L. NJ. Borchard, Department of State
'"The Treaty of Ghent," Prof. Frank
A. Updyke, Dartmouth College
The Effect of the Balkan War on
European Alliances" Prof. n. Dwight
Harris, Northwestern University
'EThe Labor Pobiem in the Philip
pines" Prof. F. Wells Williams, Yale
University.
Tuesday, p. m.-Joint session with
American Association for Labor LegIs-
ton.
Presiding officer: Admiral Charles H.
Stockton, president of George Wash
ington University.
Presidential addresses:
t'rhe individual and the State" Prof.
W. w. willoughby, Johns Hopkins Uni
Versity, president American Political
science Association.
tion,' W. +. Willoughby, Princeton
University, president American Asso-
ciation for Labor Legislation
10 p. m.-InforInal smoker at the Cos
mos Club.
wednesday, December 81, 10 a. r.
Political Theory:
The Nature and Scope of Present
Political Theory" Prof. Raymond G.
Gettell. Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn.
"Scme Political Tendencies in Mod
srn Legislation" DIR. Ernest Drunken,
Library of Congress.
Theories Of Sovereignty" Robert
Lansing Watertown, n. Y.
'sThe American Philosophy of the Re-
jationship Between Nations and Their
annexed Countries" Alpheus H. Snow,
Washington, D. c.
Wednesday, noon-Executiye council
meeting.
Wednesday, p. m.-Legislative Ref
eTence Bureaus:
The Use OF Expert Aid in the Bet
terment of American Statute Law,
n Law 74Nr<.r .r-r-aa Ill
.'The Proposed National Reference
Bureau" Senator Robert L. Owen.
Legislative Reference Bureaus for
Political Parties" Donald Richberg,
director Legislative Bureau, Progress
I've National party.
Scientific Assistance in Law Max
.ng," DR.. Horace E. Flack, Department
of Legislative Reference. Baltimore
Discussion by DR.. Charles Mccarthy.
chief of Legislative Reference Depart
Inent- Wisconsin: John A. Lapp. di-
rector Bureau of Legislative and Ad-
Jninistrative Information Indiana, and
Prof Charles e. Merriam, University
Of Chicago.
Wednesday, p. m, Congressional
procedure:
The Importance of Rules of Congress
sional Procedure a discussion of the
influence of legislative procedure in
shaping the governments of England,
France and the United States, A. Maui
rice Low, Washington.
The Correlation of the Work of the
Executive and Congress, Prof, w. L.
WiIioughby, Princeton University
Executive Participation in Legisla-
lion as a Means of Securing Legisla-
live Efficiency and Responsibility,
Prof. J. W. Garner, University of UE-
nois.
present Methods Of Congressional
LEGISLATION" DR.. J. David Thompson,
law librarian of Congress
Thursday, 10 a. m.-Conference on
instruction in American Government,
7nder direction of Prof. Charles G.
Haines, of Whitman College, WaIa
Walla- Wash, chairman committee on
iustrIction in government.
New Proportions in Political lnstruc-
tion,' Prof. Edgar Dawson, Normal Col
lese, Mex York city.
Methods and Materials in PoIiticai
instruction" Prof J. Lynn Barila1o,
school of Pedagogy, philadelphia.
Report on instruction in Government
in Colleges and Universities" Prof..
charles @. Haines.
Discussion bv Prof. Clyde l.. King,
University of Pennsylvania: Prof. ]. ..
Dealey. Brown University; Prof. +. NJ.
Salt, Columbia University, and DE- Ar
thur W. Dunn, New York city
Thursday, . D. m.-General session.
Reports of standing committees on reg
3sIafive methods, practical instruction
in government, city and county govern
rneut. and state governments. DISCUS
sion of reports. Annual bGsines meet
ing.