New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-12
SELLS TELLS PLAN
FOR WORLD PEACE
international Tribunal TO
Make War Impossible,
Is Suggestion.
WOULD TAKE OVER
ARMS, SHIPS, FORTS
Noted Accountant Says Saving
10 Nations Would Soon Be
S1,537.OOO.OO0 a Year.

Establishment o; an independent trih-
unal, endowed with power to enforce jts
decisions, is the plan advanced by Elijah
W. Sells for international peace. He
submitted it last night to the New Tors
state Society OF Certified Public Ac-
C1untants at the Waldorf.
On the world population Of 1.61I.O0O.-
coo Mr.. Sells would have seventy-fvc
representatives among ffty-cigh; ma
tens. lie thinks all nations should be
parties To the precepts. but doubts the
cNlDdlcncy OF including all IN an esti-
mate Of appropriation lnd payment TO
tie tribunal
These important requirements are
laid down IN the Sells plan:
"Thc constitution Of worlds peace
tribunal TO which shall be referred all
differences between nations which can
not be settled amiCably. and the IRE
vocable delegation TO sJci trtNundl.
first. Of authority 70 adjudicatc such
differences; second. Of fower 20 enforce
It's decisions, after due notice has cen
given the nations i'm interest; third. Of
power 20 suppress hostilities between
nations arising from any cause what
ever and 10 compel them TO submit
their differences 10 the tribunal for ad-
Indication, and fourth, of power 10 en-
force these precepts.
The requirement that the nations
shall:
First. That the nations shall transfer
10 the tribunal all warships, naval
equipment, navy yards and other relat-
ed establishments.
Second Rae all Notifications eX-
ccpt those needed for the tribunal,
which shall be transferred 10 it, to-
Cether with munitions of war. ex-
cept such small ordnance rs may be
necessary for the nations armies.
Third Reduce all armies to a basis
OF internal necessities not TO exceed
one-twontieth Of ! per cent of the ma
tons population for standing armies
and no larger force of reserves or MI
ltia for principalitics or state subdi-
visions. with limitation by law of the
manufacture Of small arms.
Fourth -Confne the operations OF
the armies of the nations TO their re-
spective territories"
Mr.. Sells provides for the annual ap-
preparation for twenty-five years by
each nation of one-third Of the average
annual expenditures for the army and
navy for the last five years. With this
sum in the hands of the treasurer of
the tribunal, however, Mr.. Sells would
restrict the expenditures to not more
than one-half the receipts.
The surplus of not less than 80 per
cent of the receipts shall, he suggests,
be invested in bonds Of the countries
contributing, and the interest received
shall be similarly invested until the
principal sum will yield in annual IN
terest a sum 90 per cent of which VIII
suffice 10 support the tribunal: linen
the nations may cease TO make pay
ments in support, and thereafter the
tribunal may expend 80 per cent of the
interest for its support and invest ~
per cent for general purposes.
III the causes of modern wars be
analvzed and considered in connection
with the proposed plan" said Mr.. Sells
I'm submitting il, "it Is apparent That
under every condition tribunal such
as is proposed would have had absolute
control of the situation and would nave
prevented hostilities between the ma
tons
With his late partner, Charles Waldo
Uaskius. Mr.. Sells was selected by Con
eress i'm 1893 to revise the accounting
system Of the federal government, ana
later installed a complete system OF
accounts for the City Of Chicago. HIS
attention to so elaborate plan Tor
peace he said, was in the interest Of
humanity.
After an informal discussion Of Mr..
Sells's plan. II. s. Corwin, president OF
the society. announced an invitation
from Columbia University to attend
lecture on department store accounts
by II. c. Magee, Of Philadelphia, on
February 10.