Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-07
STANDING OF FOREIGNERS
IN AMERICA DISCUSSED
Pan-American Congress Told
They Should Be Subject
to Adopted Land

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Chief inter-
est in the work of the Pan-American
Scientific congress again today appeared
conferred In the section for the study
of international law, where almost all
the speakers discussed some phase of
Pan-Americanism. An avowal o. a
policy for non-interVention was adVo-
Gated as an unavoidable necessity in
the creation of greater Pan-American
unity, by DR.. Luis Alfredo Otero, of
Colombia He insisted that this was
as imperative as that policy calculated
to prevent the colonization of any of
the western countries by European gov
ernments.
Foreigners who establish them
selves in the territory of any Amer
lean nation should be Internationally
subject to the laws of the country
where they reside" he declared. THE
instances are many in which the pow
ers, contrary to the most elementary
principles of international law, have
interviewed on behalf of their subjects,
and have to that end attacked the SOW
ereignty of Latin-American states,
claiming to place their actions on the
grounds of the unstable character of
the internal order anu on the little con-
tdence they had in the administration
of justice in these countries.
STATUS OF FOREIGNERS.
America, therefore, should insist"
DIR. Otero added, upon the continued
ratification and development of the
principles governing the status of for
eigners, which principles are of I'M
exceptional Importance to her, and
should definitely establish the doctrine
that in America special legal exemp-
tionS ion favor or foreigners do not ex-
list"
Unqualified support of the Monroe
doctrine and what he characterized as
its complement, the Drago doctrine, was
given by DIR. Manuel Cavalcanti, of
Brazil, in an address on problems of
international law peculiar to America.
"The Monroe doctrine" he said, sis a
summary of Americas peculiar inter-
national problems"
Continuing, DR.. Cavalcanti said: "Our
practical ideas as well as our territory
must be protected from European en-
croachment, and the United States as
sumed the role of spokesman as
guardian of the inviolability and free
dom, at the same time forswearing any
and all interference and political in
terest in European affairs. We disa-
gree with those that pretend that the
conditions that gave rise to the Mon
roe doctrine have disappeared and
along with them the doctrines raison
d'etre."
The Drago doctrine, DR.. Cavalcanti
said, stands in the world of finance for
what the Monroe doctrine stands in
the world of force.
SCIENCE IN EVOLUTION.
international law is a science in
evolution" he continued. that will
have to solve new questions as fast as
the old may be disposed of. AS for
our continent there is a fundamental
| conception upon which depends the So
luton of all our international ques-
tions and doubts, viz: Peace and unity,
in order to fill with honor and glory
the place which civilized humanity has
allotted u.s."
Dr. Enrique Gil, delegate from the
law school of the National University
of Buenos Aires, discussed Pan-Amer-
icanism Gin the light of the traditional
international policy of Argentine" His
approval of the doctrine was given in
connection with historical references
showing that Argentine for almost a
century had been a party to interna-
tional conferences of Latin-American
states that had for their purpose the
mutual protection and advancement.