The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-31

(b) The appointment ana all questions q,
lattng to the conditions Of office, fvaoe:o'a
and powers OF the hternA.lu.-. $500.
and Of the President and other officers OF the
International Council:
(c) The settlement Of Standing Orders and
all questions relating to procedure and ve.tn-
cation Of powers;
ID The financial affairs OF the inferno,
tional High Court, tho ALLEGATION OF the cost
among the Constituent States. and the issue
OF precepts upon the several Constituents
States. and the issue OF precepes upon the
several Constituent States for the shares due
from them:
To- The admission Of Independent sovse
eign States - Constituent States: ana
~ Any proposal to alter any of these Art
cles. and the making Of such an alteration.
NOTE TO ARTICLE 6.-Ths suggested
complex organization OF the International
Council is required in order: (s) To prevent
the Council being swamped. when it is deal.
ing with matters not affecting Contra, and
South America. BY the representatives Of the
twenty independent sovereign States of that
part Of the world; and Co., to maintain unim.
paired the practical hegemony and the rs.
sponsibility for preventing . serious war
Wnicn have. In fact, devolved upon the eight
Great Powers. whose adhesion to these Arti-
cles IL essential to their full efficacy.
clusively Of the representatives Of the twenty.
one Independent sovereign States of the Amer.
lean Continent now associated In the Pan.
American Union. Other States having de.
the British Empire in respect {: the Canadian
dominion. Newfoundland. the British West
ln1iaa islands. British Honduras. British
Guians; and the I.lkiaad Islands; France u
loupe, Martinique and French Guiana; Hok
land In respect of Surinam and Curacao: ana
Denmark In respect Of Greenland, St Croix,
St. Thomas and St. john would be safe.
OF any question to the Council of the eight
Great Powers or to the Council sitting - .
whole.
Membership Of the Council and votino.
z. All the Constituent States shall have
equal rights to participation in the deliberA.
tons of the International Council Any Con.
stituent State may submit to the hterna.
posal for any alteration Of International Law.
or for making an enactment Of new law: ana
also (subject to the provisions of those Arti.
cles with regard to the submission Of justio.
liable issues to the International High Court)
may bring before the Council any question.
dispute or difference arising between It and
any other Constituent State.
When the International Council IL sitting
a. the Council OF the eight Great Powers or
a. the Council Of the States other than the
eight Great Powers each Of the States repre-.
sented therein shall have one vote only
When the International Council IL SITTING
a. = whole or as the Council for Europe or
as the Council for America, the number OF
votes to be given ON behalf Of each State shall
be as follows:
NOTE TO ARTICLE Tho scale Of so.,ns
treaty, and the folotoing plan q sxo0ested:
The question OF the relative voting power
in the International Council Of the forty or
hfty independent sovereign States ia one Of
the greatest difficulty. At The Hague Con.
ference the smaller States successfully main.
tanned the right Of all the States, even the
smallest. to equality Of voting power. On the
other hand. the eight Great Powers. which are
probably administering three-fourths of the
total population of the world. disposing OF
seven-eighths of its governmental revenues,
forces will certainly not submit to be out.
voted by nine OF the smallest States OF Amer.
lea or Europe.
One suggested scale of relative voting
power has the unique merit Of having been
actually agreed to at The Hague Conferences
In 1907 IN the form Of the relative participa.
ton OF the Judges Of the several States in the
proposed International Prize Court. Devised
for such q purpose. it somewhat ovsrvalues
certain States having exceptionally large
maritime interests tsuch a. Norway ana unr
dervalues some having small maritime inter-
ments might now have to be made.
As agreed to by The Hague Conference. the
relative position OF the States works out into
the following scale Of votes:
Austria-Hungary, the British EN-
pire. France. Germany. Italy.
japan. Russia, the United
States OF America. 20 votes each
Spain NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IL votes each
The Netherlands .............. votes each
Belgium, Denmark. Greece, Nor.
way. Portugal. Sweden. China,
Roumania Turkey. 10000. votes each
Argentine. Brasil. Chile Mexico 4 votes each
Switzerland. Bulgaria. Persia :. 3 votes each
Colombia. Peru. Uruguay, Vene-
suela, Serbia, Siam. ...... . votes each
The other Constituent States :. 1 vote each
(Theso may include Bolivia, Costa Rica,
Cuba Dominican Republic. Ecuador, 0uats.
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Luxembourg. Montonos
gro Nicaragua. Panama, Calvador, etc.)
AZ regards the Council for America. It may
be urged that the existing Pan,Americao
Union has equal voting. On the other hand,
the United States 10 not likely to allow such
. Council to become an effective legislature
Il, with four-Afths az the population. Il has
only one-twenty-nrst Of the voting power. The
United States may. indeed. insist. IN this
Council, on an even larger relative voting
power than was conceded for the Prise CourG
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