The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-24
Society of Interna-
tiOnaI Law i'm Session.
Use of Straits and Canals Is
Leading Subject.
TO GIVE STRONG PROGRAM
Speeches by Persons in DiplO-
matte Service.
Will Discuss Great Britain
American Relations.

! Washington, April 24.-The Panama
canal tolls question is the principal
subject of discussion by many dis
4 tinguished speakers at the seventh
| annual meeting of the American So
ciety of International law, which opens
here tonight. The general subject
1.-The International Use of Straits and
| Canals with especial reference to the
| Panama cana1,'' is the one before the
society, which numbers among its
members many notable publicists,
statesmen, diplomats and other pub
| lie men. The state of the Panama
canal negotiations between the United
States and Great Britain gives added
| interest to the society's deliberations.
Senator Elihu Root, president of
the society, will open the meeting with
an address at o'clock. The address
will be devoted principally to an ap-
probation of DR.. Francis I1eber,
whose instructions for the govern
ment of the armies of the United
States in the field" adopted by the
government of the United States dur
ing the civil war, have laid the foun-
dations for the codification of the
laws of war, first by individual ma
tions, and finally by the Hague con-
ferences. The date of Mr.. Roots ad-
dress, April "a, 1913, is the fiftieth
anniversary of the PRONUNCIATION of
these instructions known, in the no
menclature of the United States war
department, as general orders No 100.
Senator Root will be followed by DR..
Ta1cott Williams, director of the Col
umbia School of Journalism, in New
York city, who will speak on the share
of the United States and its diplomatic
action in freeing the worlds water
ways from restriction. Gregers w.
w. Gram, minister of state of Nor
way, who is coming to this country
for the special purpose of attending
the meeting, will then deliver an adj
dress on the international interest in
1 Of h a q a I
toll question.
Interests of q. S. and England.
The proceedings on Friday, begin at
I o a. m, with an historical account of
Isthmian projects by Prof. E. D.
lege. He will be followed by Cram
mond Kennedy, an International law
yer and member of the bar of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who will compare
the relative interests of the United
States and Great Britain in the west
ern hemisphere at the different stages
of negotiations concerning the 18TH
milan 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.
The question has been framed in the
following form: Does the expression
all nations in article of the Hay
Pauncefote treary, include the United
States ?''
The affirmative of this question will
be maintained by Rear Admiral Chas.
H. Stockton, Z. S. navy, retired, presi-
dent of George Washington university,
and Eugene ambaugh, professor of
international law in Harvard law
school Lewis Nixon of New York,
and delegate of the United States to
the fourth Pan-American conference,
will defend the opposite view.
The proceedings will be resumed
Friday afternoon, at which Horace G.
mcfarland of the District of Columbia
bar, and William Miller Collier of the
bar of the state of New York, and
formerly minister to Spain, will dis
cuss the following question: would
a subsidy to the amount of the tolls
granted to American ships passing
through the canal be a discrimination
prohibited by the treaty."
Effect on Panama Canal Revenues.
At o'clock on the same day, Pro-
messor Emory r. Johnson, special
Panama canal traffic and tolls, will
discuss What is the effect of the ex-
emption of American coastwise ship
ping upon Panama canal revenues?'
He will be followed upon the same
subject by n. Dwight Harris, professor
of European diplomatic history in
Northwestern university. The ques-
ton of the right of the United States |
to exclude from the use of the canal
any class of foreign vessels, such as
rallWay-OWneO vessels, VIII Inen De
considered by James w. Garner, pro- |
fessor of political science in the Uni
versity of Illinois, and John Foster
Dulles, of the New York bar.
The final session of the society will
begin at 10 a. m. Saturday. Thomas |
Raeburn White, of the Philadelphia
bar will speak on rs it necessary in
international law that injury actually
be suffered before a justifiable action
arises?'' What is the International
obligation of the United States, if any, |
under its treaties, in view of the Brit
ish contention?'' will also be discussed
at this session by Hannis Taylor, for
merly minister to Spain, and Amos S. |
Hershey, professor of political science
and international law in Indiana uni
versity. The society will then receive |
and discuss the report of it's commit !
tee on codification of international law |
and, after transacting its business, will |
adjourn.
The proceedings will close with a |
banquet at the New Willard hotel, on
Saturday evening. A number of prom
inent speakers are expected to attend
the banquet, including among them
Secretary Bryan.
All the sessions of the Society will
be open to the public.
The Society was organized January
II, 1906, to foster the study of inter
national law and promote the estab-
liShment of international relations on
the basis of law and justice. Its mem
bership is composed of about 1000
persons residing in all parts of the
world and is made up principally of
persons in the diplomatic and consular
service of the United States and other
government officials, inter-
lawyers, students and teach
ers of international law and persons
generally in international af-
fairs.
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Narka, Kan, April 24.-The Narka
club has just elected the