Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10

1920 Mr.. Root spent the summer at The
Hague in cooperation with the leading
jurists of the world on the establishment
of the League of Nations court of inter
national Justice In 1908. while Secre-
tary of State IN the Roosevelt Cabinet.
Mr.. Root negotiated the Root akahira
agreement, which dealt with the desires
of the United States and Japan to pre-
serve the economic and political status
quo in the Pacific and China. Few Ameri-
cans have q keener insight into Far East
ePn affairs than the veteran New York
jurist He has served on numerous in
ternational arbitration tribunals and in
1912 was awarded the Nobel prize for
peace His last foreign diplomatic mis-.
sion was as ambassador extraordinary
to Russia during the 1917 revolution
there.
In addition TO Tie four members Of the
American delegation. there will be staff
of advisory couDselors." As at present
contemplated. there viii benot more than
twelve in number, with the necessary
stats of subsidiary assistants. The 'ad
v1Sory counselOrs' will be military, naval,
diplomatic and economic experts. Th@
will represent, it was explained at the
White House, American labor, American
womanhood and American financial and
commercial interests, and every other ma
tiOnal interest entitled to be represented
at a conference on limitation of arma-
ments. There will, of course, be notable
representatives Of the United States Army
and Navy among the advisory coun-
seIors" The names Of General Pershing
and Admiral Sims are mentioned as likely
choices, in addition to other eminent sol
diers and sailors.
DELEGATES NOT
GIVEN FULL POWERS.
The American delegation will not be
clothed with plenipOtentiary powers
That point was stressed at the White
House. Although headed by the Secre-
tary of State, the responsible conductor
Of Americas foreign affairs, the United
States delegation will not be empowered
to make any decisions that do not have
the specific sanction. >frOm case to case,
Of the administration. 1t is obvious that
President Harding intends that the de
alterations of American representatives
Non the forthcoming occasion shall be in
kharp contrast to those Of President
Wilson's delegation at the Paris peace
coBference-namely that they shall be
Invested of any authority on their own
Pscount to commit the United States tC
decisions and policies of far reaching i'm
pOrtance In the case of treaties OF
agreements binding the United States, the
ratification Of the Senate, of course, will
be required In another striking aspect
the American delegation at the Washing
ton conference will be different from that
which represented the United States at
Paris, in that the President is not o
member.
II is foreshadoSed in Washington that
objection to the personnel of the Amer
lean delegation probably will be most
vociferous in the West, which has been
ignored in the Presidents selections. The
Pacific coast it is believed. will feel
i has been sighted, for ever since the
conference became q certainty California.
Oregon and Washington State. have been
bombarding Washington with representa-
lions calling attention to their special
and particular interest in Far Eastern
affairs. Friends of Senator BOrah of
Idaho, who was so active in crystallizing
disarmament sentiment in Congress- feel
he was entitled tc the honor of member
ship of the American mission. He would
have fulfilled the double requirement of
geographical eligibility and genuine
friendliness to the cause of disarmament.
WOULD BAN HATE
AT CONFERENCE.
The President is understood deliber
ateIy to have neglected to appoint an
out and out Westerner in order that the
American delegation might. not be tinged
with any obviously anti-Japanese color
ing. Mr.. Harding is determined that as
far as possible nothing savOring of hate
or ''remOrse" shall enter into America S
concept or conduct of the conference.
Efforts in high Administration quar-
ters 10 ascertain whether any scheme of
world association" was now in Presi-
dent Harding's mind, in connection with
the ornaments conference, elected no as
surances on that score. 1t is a signf-
can't however, that three out of four OF
the conference Notwithstanding
Hughes, Senator Underwood and Elihu
Root were avowed friends of the League
Of Nations in one form or another; while
Senator Lodge, of course, was the origi-
nal league ''reservationist."
1t was again pointed out that the
Harding Administration enters upon the
actual preliminaries of the conference in
a spirit of high faith. Its leading spokes-
men emphasized that mo nation ever
engaged upon so lofty an enterprise in
a mere disinterested spirit than that
which marks our interest I'm the arma-
ments conference" There is evidently
ses6ne confidence both at the White
House and the State Department that ii
the six nations which are to confer in