Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-12-04
SMALL PEOPLES
TROUBLES HAL 7
LEAGUE : WORK
Galatians Would Throw
Off Spanish Rule; Serbs
Abusive, Charge.
International Credits In
stitutions Plan Takes
Time of IL Members.

Geneva. Dec. 3-(By the Associated
Press The Galatians have asked the
League of Nations to free them from
Spanish rule; the Montenegrins repeat
edly are applying to the council and as
sembly for the independence of their
country and for relief from alleged cruel
ties of Serbian troops Of occupation, and
among the almost innumerable odds and
ends in the league mail are demands
for revision Of the treaty Of Sevres.
These and minor complications are
preventing the council of the assembly
from pushing ahead, with the big pro.
gram Of the present meeting.
Finance Board Busy
Meantime the financial committee of
twelve. appointed to continue the work
of the Brussels financial conference. has
been diligently working out n plan for
an international credits institution. This
committee took the rough sketch of the
plan prepared by the Brussels confer
ence as a starting point for its work,
After twenty odd sittngs it has yir-
tually completed the drift of the plan,
which will be submitted to the council
in few days.
Announcement of this progress toward
practical solution Of one Of the worlds
greatest problems is hailed with the
greatest satisfaction by many delegat,
who had acquired the impression that the
council was permitting the recamplen-
dations Of the Brussels conference f5
rest in pigeonholes.
Assembly Principles
The report of the committee on re-
iatipns between the council and the
assembly of the league of nations sug-
gests the adoption by the assembly of
the following principles as working
basis for the time being:
F1rst-The council and the assembly
each will be invested with particular
powers and duties. Neither body will
have jurisdiction to render a decision in
any matter which has been expressly
to the other.
Second-The assembly will have no
power to reverse or modify a decision
which falls within the exclusive compe-
tence of the council. The same respect
must be shown by the council for deci-
sions of the assembly.
Third-Under the covenant represent
atives sitting on the council and in the
assembly will render decisions as repre-
sentatives of their respective states, and
IN rendering decisions they have no
except as such representatives
Fourth-The council will present each
years report to the assembly.
Not Analogous.
It will be impossible to consider the
as a chamber Of deputies and
he council as an upper chamber, the
'eport finds, because in certain matters
he council and the assembly win have |
IDENTICAL rights while in others each |
,ody has special rights.
Neither can the council be considered !
IS invested with executive and the as |
enibly with legislative power, since the |
ssembly also possesses executive pre-
ogatives The committee finds no ana
ogy for the league in ordinary consti-
utional law and comes to the conclusion
hat. in view of the complicated questions
involved in the final definition Of the
elations between the two bodies, it is
etter to adopt only general principles
9 working basis pending further study
t the situation