The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-04-25
is the Principal Subject at a
Meeting of International
Law Body.

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The Panama canal tolls question /,
the principal subject of dlscussioi
by many distinguished speakers al
the seventh annual meeting of the
American Society of international
Law, which has been in session here
THE general subject, THE Interna-
Itional Use of the Canal" is the one
before the society, which numbers
famong its members many notable
dipublieists. statemen, diplomats and
other public men. The stage OF the
Panama canal negotiations between
1.-THE United States and Great Britain
gives added interest to the societvs
deliberations.
Senator Elihu Root, president CT
THE society, opened tile meeting With
an address at s O'Clock. The al
dress was devoted principally to an
depreciation of Or. Francis Liebcr,
whose Instructions for the govern
Ement of the armies Of the United
States in the field." adopted BY the
government of the United States
during the Civil war; have laid tho
foundation for the codlfcation of The
laws of war. first by individual ma
ftions. and finally by the Hague Con-
ferences. The date of Mr.. Roots
address April "a, was the fftieth
anniversary of the PRONUNCIATION of
these Instructions known, in the
nomenclature of the United States
War Department, as General Orders
No. 100. ~
Senator Root was followed by Dr.
Talcott Williams, director Of the
Columbia School Of Journalism, in
New York City who spoke ON the
share of the United States and its
diplomatic action in freeing the
worlds waterways from restriction.
Gregers w. w. Gram, minister or
state Of Norway. who came to this
country for the special purpose of at
tending the meeting, then delivered
an address on the information in.
iterest in the settlement of the Pana-
ma canal toll question.
Next came an historical account Of
isthmian protects by Professor E. ..
Warfield, president OF Lafayette Col
llege. he was followed by cram
mond Kennedy, an international
lawyer and member of the bar Of the
district OF Columbia, who compared
the relative interests of the United
States and Great Britain in the
Western Hemisphere at the different
lstages OF negotiations concerning the
Isthmian canal. The main question
in dispute between Great Britain
and the United States over the ex-
Eemption of American coastwise vcs-
sells from the payment of tolls on the
Panama canal was then discussed.
The question has been framed in
the following form: Does the ex-
Lpression all nations in Article 3 Of
the Hay1Pauncefote treaty, include
the United states?"
The affirmative of the question
was maintained by Rear Admiral
Charles H. Stockton, United statos
Navy retired. president of George
Washington University, and Eugene
Wambaugh, professor on interna.
tional law in Harvard law school.
Lewis Nixon, Of New York, and dele.
gate of the United States to he
Fourth lPan-American Conference
defended the opposite view.
Horace G. Macfarlsnd, of the Dis
I.trict of Columbia bar, and WilIiaia
Miller Collier, OF the bar of the state
of New York. and formerly minister
to Spain, discussed the following
question: Would subsidy 10 the
amount of the tolls granted tc
American ships passing through the
canal be discrimination prohfbitGd
by treaty"
Professor Emory R. Joha.
son. special commissioner Of
traffic and tolls, discussed What
is the effect OF the exemption d
American coastwise shipping upoG
Panama canal revenues 80 He wa
followed upon the same su6jest
by N. Dwight Harris, professor n
European diplomatic history il
the Northwestern University III,
question of the right of the United
i States to exclude from the use of the
canal any class of foreign vessels
such as railway-owened vessels, wA'
then considered by James "
Garner, professor of political science
in the University of Illinois, ant
John Foster Dulles. of the New Yort
bar.
The final session of the societ!
will begin at 10 o'clock a. m. satur.
day. Thomas IRaeburn white, of tn,
Philadelphia bar, will speak on "ll
lit necessary in International law
: that injury actually be suffered be
fore a i,tsfirabIa ocfiny, a,.,,s.. o,t