Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-09
SAYS PEACE WORK
MOVING SPEEDILY
Representative Montague Com
pares Vienna Congress to
Paris Session.
ADDRESS AT COUNTRY CLUB
Declares Senate Judicial Body on
Treaty and Needs No
ENJOYS to Parleys.
ADDRESS AT COUNTRY CLUB

The peace conference at Paris is
making more rapid progress toward
the completion of its task than ;ny
similar body has ever done Ia The
history of the world. declared Repre-
sentative Andrew Jackson Montague
in an address last night al the Country
Club of Virginia. before the West
hampton Citizens Association
The Congress OF Vienna" said the
former Governor. which more nearly
approaches the treaty making body
at Paris. in It's magnitude and the
tion than any other, required more
than a year in which 10 draw Up .hc
instrument TO which was attached :he
sisnatories OF the nations reprasen;cI." :"
without crt;icizing the cours \.
certain Senator's. who have exn, on
body to which they belong NJ
representation at the peac con-
ference Representative Montai re de-
clarcd that. though the United States
In its life as nation. delegates from
the Senate had sat at only one coun-
ell table-that which followed the
Spanish American War
Senate in judicial Posft =.
THE Senate" he said, "ocrapies
judicial position in the treaty making
power OF the country, and it would
be obviously incongruous for members
of such body to have hand in draw
ing up the instrument upon which
they would later sit as a court. 1t is
an appellate tribunal. so far as trea-
ties are concerned. Were il represent
would be called upon to confirm or
reject an instrument which would be
in a sense Its own creation"
Representative Montague devoted
Tense of the proposed league of ma
tions, declaring that all civil institu
nsaE sTs ssx shak
the world evolve some plan to limit
the possibility of war and prevent as
far as human effort can do resurs srs
the nations have just passed.
Must He Family of Nations.
whether we will or no.; he said,
I'VE have become" our brothers keeper.
he will open the gate and let the rob-
bers in. The world is much smaller
place than 1t used to be. Distance no
indeed come when we must be a fam
lily OF nations
THE league Of nations was formed
Britain. France. italy, japan and
America became almost indissolubly
bound together The league was
mainine was s that M of 1" expansion. fso.o Should
other nations be given the opportuni
~ OF making a larger family for mu-
tual protection against the horrors OF
war?
Doe. Not Nullify Doctrine.
There have been advanced against
il many arguments. One of them is
that il nullities the Monroe Doctrine
can see no such thing. Another is that
the cutting down of, armaments may
mean disaster. ! think the revolution
ary spirit of the world and the lust for
war is retained in nothing SO much as
great armaments I hope we will not
travel again the bloody way from
Vienna to Versailles
The speaker declared that the ques-
tion OF government ownership would
be one of the greatest 10 face the next
Congress. He made no prediction as to
what would be finally done, but said
that the argument in favor of sweep
ing control by the government of pub.
lie and semipublic utilities was be-
ing pressed by mo sleeping propa-
ganda.'
President Roatwright Speaks.
DIR. +. w. Boatwright, president of
Richmond and WeSthampton Colleges.
declared that the recent campaign of
the institutions of which he is head to
secure money for the enlarging of their
scope was only the beginning of the
execution of plans which he hopes will
culminate in the University of Rich
mond.
we expect to build more colleges
around the group we already have" he
said. The great school we plan for
the city and State is just begun. With
in the next decade we will spend some
thing like 100000 000."