Iron County register., 1921-10-13
Statutes at Large. quote here the
most important part of the law:

statutes at Large. l quote here the
most important part of the law:
ut is hereby declared To h. The
policy State Historical Society .u,ust
and settle its international disputes
through mediation or arbitration, to
the end that the war mBy be honor
ably avoided. 1t looks with appre-
hension and disfavor upon a general
increase of armaments throughout
the world, but tit realizes that no single
nation can disarm, and that without a
common agreement upon the subject
every considerable power must main
tain a relative standing in military
strength.
''In view of the premises, the presi-
dent is authorized and REQUESTED to
invite, at an appropriate time, not
later than the close of the war in
Europe, all the great governments of
the world to send representatives to
conference, which shall be charged
with the 6uty of formulating plan
for court of arbitration or other
tribunal, to which disputed questions
between nations shall be referred for
adjudication and peaceful settlement,
and to consider the question of dis
armament and submit their recon-
mendation to their respective gov
ernments for approval. The Presi-
dent is hereby authorized to appoint
nine citizens of the United States,
who, in his judgement, shall be quail
fed for the mission by eminence in
the law and by devotion to the cause
of peace, to be representatives of the
United States in such conference"
The law went on to appropriate
100000; curiously enough, President
Harding asked for the same amount
for expenses of the conference.
When the Hensley provision was up
in the House, Speaker Clark left the
chair to take up the cudgels for it,
aiding Hensley to put it through. The
chief opposition came from the late
Augustus P. Gardner. -in-law of
Senator Lodge, who is now on the
Conference Committee. The debate
can be found in the Record of the 64th
Congress, vol. '53, part 8, beginning at
page 9S43. This piece of legislation
was also passed by the Democratic
Senate and signed by the Democratic
President and is now the law as much
as in 1916.
When the war was over and the
Treaty OF the Versailles was being
made, President Wilson had the idea
inserted in that treaty as Article g..
This did not make it any more ac-
ceptable to the Republicans; in fact,
the whole idea of such a conference
seemed utterly repugnant to the Re
publicans until Presideat Harding
took it UP and fostered it as his own
idea.
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft all
tried their hands at "brea king the
solid South" Very popular outdoor
sport. Now Harding is trying it.
His friend Colonel (paper title) An
derson is running for Governor of
Virginia aided by ample funds from
the Republican National Treasury. In
a speech the other day he said that
when distributing Red Cross food to
the people in the Balkans the women
and children would kiss the flag on
his automobile, but that he felt that
he was perpetrating fraud on them
when he reflected that one of the
stars on that flag stood for the State
of Virginia-and more to the same
effect. He was answered by Judge
Hundley, whose son was desperately
wounded in a Virginia regiment at
the battle front. The solid South
may be broken, but it will not be in
Virginia in this Year of Grade, 1921,
by Colonel Anderson.
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