Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
.LAUDS WORK Of
MED|ATORS AS
EPOCH-MAK|NG
John Bassett Moore, at Mohonk
Lake, Predicts New Pan
American Diplomacy.

MOHoNK LAKE. N. Y, May 81
John Bassett Moore, presiding at the
opening session of the twentieth an
hual Lake Mohonk Conference on In
ternational Arbitration here today,
declared that existing arbitration
treaties were backward steps. As far
back as 1894 he found the United
states and. Great Britain admitting
10 arbitration in a sweeping manner
certain points which would be sub
1ect to exception or restriction under
the treaty with Great Britain today.
As we are somewhat prone to
BOAST of leading the van in the cause
of peace. it may be worth our while
10 consider" he said, whether we
should not occupy a position more
advanced than that which we now
mold If we were to go back to the
practise we adopted a hundred and
twenty years ago."
Mr.. Moore, whose resignation last
March from the high office of coun-
selor of the state department stirred
Washington with rumors of a clash
with Secretary Bryan, made no at
J lack upon the policies of his former
chief He spoke favorably of the
pending Bryan Peace Treaties"
No Notable Arbitration Cases.
4 He deplored that the cases of arbi-
tration initiated during the past two
wears have not in any respect been
.nota bie-related as they were for the
most part to simple pecuniary ques-
TONS and that even these had been
overshadowed by armed conflicts of
exceptional destructiveness,' partic-
ularlB in the Balkans, where the end
of bostilities was not yet assured.
So far as the United States and
Great Britain are concerned" Mr..
Moore continued, 1.-The clause (mean-
ing the clause of exceptions in the
treaties) ran far behind the actual
practise of these countries, for they
had on numerous occasions submitted
to arbitration questions which had
been considered as affecting the
Honor of the two parties-as was
particularly true of the Geneva arbi-
tration relating to the Alabama
claims.
Nevertheless, the government of
the United States, no. doubt urged
thereto by those who desired to ad
! vance the cause of international
peace. signed treaties with various
powers in the precise terms of the
| British French arrangement. These
treaties provided that the contracting
parties should in each individual
case. before appealing to the perma-
nent court of arbitration, conclude a
special agreement defining the mat
ter in dispute the scope of the arbi-
traitors powers and the procedure to
be followed. The Senate amended
this clause so as to require its own
advice and consent to be given in
each particular case. The effect OF
this amendment was to require new
treaty to be made before any queS-
ton could be submitted to arbitra-
ton.
"The result of this action is that
so far as the United States is con-
cerned, it is in practise more difficult
ITO secure International arbitration
than 1t was in the early days of our
independence. Although this state
ment may occasion some surprise, its
correctness may easily be demon
strated.'
Praises A. b. C. Mediation.
Hesreferred to the "A. B. c. media
ton" now going on: prior to The
Hague convention, the tender of
good offices or mediation without So
ilcitation or consultation was usually
regarded as an intrusive act, SAVIOR
ing of unjustiiable interference. BY
that convention it was declared that
'powers, strangers to the dispute,
have the right to offer good offices or
mediation. even during the course OF
hostilities,' and that the exercise OF
this right could never be regarded by
the parties to the conflict as an I'M
friendly act This stipulation paved
the way for the tender of good ofnces
or mediation made by the diplomatic
representatives of Argentina, Brazil
and Chile, at Washington, after hos
tilities were begun at Vera Cruz. The
offer was accepted. No matter what
NAV be it's present result, 1t is re-
narkabIe event in the history OF IN
ternational relations in the Western
hemisphere"
He believed that the long delayed
third Hague conference would De
held by 1916, and concluded:
After twenty years of fruitful ald
to the cause of peace and goodwill,
the Lake Mohonk Conference on In
ternational Arbitration today faces
the future with confidence and nope.
The maintenance of continue
ously peaceful conditions Will de-
pend upon the general improvement
of political and social relations, And
to the accomplishment of this end all
welI-disposed men and women may
work together in the inspiring BELIEF
that in the affairs of the world en-
/lightened public opinion plays a con-
stantlv larger and more decisive
part.
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