Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29

~A1 st~ r,anre- ua stems forward. reveal ing 8 shorter, white-mustached. ruddy- checked gentleman, whose twinkling eyes
 be<ray a wholesome good nature and a sense of hurnor. Next comes the third of the group, American in every line of him, smiling face. an air of dignifled assurance coupled with alertness.
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 The three advance to the long desk. There is hustle in the great, bare court room. The haif-dozen lawyers rise to their feet and bow solemnly to the new corners. These, in turn, bow with equal solemnity three times. once to the center and once to each side, though all in the courtroom are grouped in 8 small space in front of them.
 Then the three figures on the elevated platform seat themselves and the law yers follow their example.
 The international tribunal of arbitration ie in session.
 The concrete result of 8 great world movement is before you Quietly, with decorum and simplicity of practice, dis putes between two great nations that once would have been subject to the arbitrRment of war are here being set tied
 Since N-rch this tribunal has been sitting in a spacious courtroom loaned for the purpose in the Carnegie 1nstitu- ton, on the Avenue of the Presidents at Washington It has attracted but mini- mum of attention Hardly soui-saye those officially connected with the trf- bunal or there to represent some cause before the body--attends-
 Quite lost in the teeming political life of Washington, the tribunal plods stead fly along, hearing argument in cases that at periods in times past have set the world agog with their international StOniRourpa St fpaJ oh n fharn are now being written.
 But turn your attention to the per- sonnel of the tribunal It is humanly very interesting. The tall gentleman in the center is Henri Fromageot, president of the tribunal and perhaps Frances most distinguished international lawyer.
 Russia borrowed his services in the ad- tustment of the claims arising out of her war with Turkey a generation ago. Italy, too. has availed herself of his learning, while his own country frequently calls upon him for counsel and endeavor in the settlement of grave international questions.
 He is here because the United States and Great Britain agreed upon him to preside over this arbitration in which | those two nations propose to wipe the l slate clean of pecuniary claims pending l between them. derness Of the New England Yankee | with the same high cheek bones and | bright eyes. but in his thin face is the l pallor of the student. He wears huge, | the gravity of his appearance During | his prolonged stay in Washington he 1 lives at the Cosmos Club. that abode of scientists and students, unlike any other world a 6e congenial companionship TO his right the merry-eyed figure is | that of Right Hon. Sir Charles Fitz- patrick. G. c. M. G., privy counselor to i the King of England, chief justice of | Canada and deputy governor general of | that Dominion, who is the British arbi- | trator on the tribunal. For all his string of alphabetical dis functions, Sir Charles is the most demo- | cratic of men. He is native of Quebec | served in his younger days in the provin- l eial parliament; resigned In 1896 to enter l the Dominion parliament, where he at | once became solicitor general of Can ada He held that office until he became | minister of justice in 1901 Five years later he became chief justice.
 x** To the left of M. Fromagerot sits the American arbiter Chandler Anderson. | counselor for the Department of State during the Taft administration, and A | distinguished international lawyer. Tn 1seS Mir. Anderson's services to his | government began. He was secretary for the United States and Great Britain | In the Boring sea claims commission of that year. Two years later he was secretary of the joint high commission adjusting disputes between Canada and the United States.
 He was counsel for the United States hA --v- work in London and in other boundary disputes. During the admins stra tions Of Secretaries Root and Knox he was employed as counsel for the United l States in numerous matters. He was | agent for the United States in the | North Atlantic coast fisheries arbitra- ton at The Hague in 1910 and he has | adjustments. I The tribunal in which he now sits is | the outcome of long negotiations con | ducted during the Roosevelt and Taft | administrations for settlement of pe- cuniary claims subjects of the British | empire hold against the United States | and of claims American citizens hold against Great Britain. Away back in 1T94, operating under the Jay treaty. the United States and | Great Britain had commission of some 1 what this sort to adjust claims. Again in 1853 another sat. In 1871 an in | commission wac constitut- | ed to adjust British claims arising out | of the civil war, but it was limited in authority. The present tribunal then l Is practically the first that has sat l since 1853.
 In all the years that have intervened a vast number of claims have arisen An American or Briton who feels that he has been harmed by the acts of the other country makes representa- ton to his own government either di- recrly to the Department of State or. In this country. to the Senate. If the claim impresses his own government as being sound, diplomatic representa- tions are made to the offending coun-t try that the claim ought to be paid The other country resists in soInt cases: in other cases it pays. But "a ternational politics, the dictates of diplomacy and other considerations enter into any settlement l. On october IS, 1907, the two nations Bigned an arbitration treaty. Under a section of that treaty pecuniary claims |