Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-04
AMERICAN BAR
TO Get DOUBLE
LEAGUE REPORT
Majority to Recommend
Ratification Unarnend-
ed by the u. S.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. Identification
OF the peace treaty, including the
League of Nations covenant, without
amendments, will be recommended at
the convention of the American Bar
Association here, August rs to 27,
inclusive. The recommendation will
be IN the majority report of spec
ial committee appointed to consider
the treaty.
The committee which signed the
report was composed of Edgar A.
Bancroft, of Chicago; William H.
Wadhams, of New oYrk, and the late
Frederick N. Judson, of this city.
Charles Blood Smith, of Topeka,
Kan, and Henry st. George Tucker,
of Lexington, Va, will present
minority report in which they assert
they are unable to concur" with the
majority committee.
Sections of reports to be present
ed at the convention have been re-
ceived by members of the local ar
fragments committee. The reports
treat of various subjects.
Your committee is of the opinion
that the treaty, including the pro-
posals for a League of Nations,
should be ratified without amend
ment," the majority report on the
treaty declares "The world is anx-
ious to return to more settled con-
dition which awaits the termination
of the great war. If amendments
are proposed by the United States,
other governments would undoubte
edly propose amendments, and it is
unlikely that a second conference
could produce a more satisfactory
treaty.
". S. Should Support 1t.
1T is particularly fitting that the
United States should support the
proposal for this League. The
League is based upon our own ex-
perience in a federation of states
enjoying liberty and peace. 1t has
been our high destiny to- join with
our allies in preventing the destruc-
tion of liberty and establishing it as
the governing principle in the life of
the states.
Upon entering the war we ex-
pressed it as our desire and purpose
to secure not only for ourselves, but
for all nations of the world, an en-
during peace, based upon those prin-
ciples of liberty and of justice which
we enjoy, The league is organized
for that purpose. Should the United
States refuse to enter the League it
would defeat it's organization; should
the United States join, it gives the
best assurance of it's success"
Dealing with the subject of
amendments and reservations the
ho+ Hoon
destructive to the pact, and empha-
sizes that only interpretative reser-
vations should be permitted.
Another report suggests that the
election of the president of the Unit
ed States and his Inauguration be
brought nearer together, and that
the short session of the old con-
gress be abandoned.
The interval between the election
and Inauguration of a president, this
report declares, is a serious evil,
fraught with much danger, because,
if an administration is dlscredlted
by a popular vote of want of conf
dence, the prestige of the govern
ment at home and abroad is weak
ened and there is danger of humil-
iation and disaster to the republic"
The report does not recommend any
other date for the election or the
inauguration.
Hands OFF Aviation.
Recommendation that the making
of rules for the cond~"- of aviation
be held in allegiance until alrplanes
become more numerous. is set forth
in another report.
The committee on international
law will present report which
states that, after ou lining develop
ments of the reconstruction period,
it ''finds little to record of wise and
final adjustment or of complete ac-
cord" Commenting on the meeting
of the Organization Committee of
the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice under the League of
Nations, the report says cat last
a body distinctly legal, a body. of
our cloth and profession, is seeking,
and is given an opportunity to or
ganize international justice and
prepare for its enforcement in the
world"
A large number of prominent
sneakers are expected to address the
association, including Sir Auckland
Geddes, British ambassador to the
United States; Franklin K. Lane,
former secretary of the interior; Al
bert j. Beveridge, of Indiana, for,
mer United States senator, nd
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Of Denver
Hampton L. Carson, of Philadelphia,
is president of the association.
Sections of the association Will
meet simultaneously with the parent
ORGANIZATION as follows: Compare
tive Law, Judicial Section, Legal
Education; Patent, Trademark and
Public Utility Law.
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