Seward daily gateway., 1925-06-02
PROPOSED TREATIES
 WOULD SETTLE ALL
 BOUNDARY DISPUTES
WOULD FALL IN CATEGORY OF TAcNA-ARiCA
 DECISION BY COOLIDGE.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.-(P) In view of the. many boundary dis putes among various Latin American states still awaiting solution, two pro- posed treaties have been drawn up by the Institute of International Law which, if agreed to and ratified by all the 21 republics of this hemis- phere, would assure the solution of all such problems on a peaceful ba- sis and with minimum of friction.
 Any question like the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru, re- gently arbitrated by President Cool idge, would fall in the category cov- cred by these two draft conventions, and the machinery provided by them would be automatically set in mo- ton to reach some solution
 The convention are two of 30 worked out by the Institute under a resolution passed at the fifth Pan American Congress held at Santiago in 1923, and form part of the general program of the codificatiOn of pub lie international law as applied to the American republics. These par ticular treaties, together with the other 2S, will come up for discussion at the International Jurists' Confer ence to be held in Rio de Janeiro some time this year.
 One of the treaties fixes rules of behavior for the countries among which a territorial dispute exists, while the matter is as yet unsolved. The other specifics the steps which shall be taken to reach settlement.
 Under the first treaty the disput- ants shall reach, either by direct ne gotiation or by the good offices of some friendly authority, ''modus vivendi" in the disputed zone which shall premit the interested parties to exercise police powers, care for the hygiene, and insure public tran guilty in the said zone" Should the interested parties be unable to agree on a "modus vivendi," then it is stipulated that neither shaii eSer- else, while settlement of the quarrel is still pending, any acts of sover eighty which might be prejudicial to the interests of the other, but that both shall respect any sovereign acts performed before the dispute arose Among other minor provisions, it IS also stipulated that if a disputed zone should change hands as a result of the settlement, the country losing sovereignty shall be indemnified by the other for any public works al ready constructed
 The second treaty is based upon The Hague convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes
 The treaty provides that as soon as a dispute shall arise the good of fees of friendly powers shall be in voked to try and arrange some set. clement. Should this action bear no good results, then a commission of inquiry shall be set up, on the un- derstanding, however, that "the find ings of the commission will be con- sidered as reports upon the disputes which were the subject of the inves- tigation, but will not have the value or force of judicial decisions or ar bitral awards"
 The commission itself will consist of five members, "all nationals of American states, appointed in the following manner: Each government shall appoint two at the time ot convocation, only one of whom shall be national of it's country. The fifth shall be chosen by common ac cord by those already appointed and 0Iio1A pCl LOA III LIlS uuIlCD VI pA SOA dent.
 A period of six months after the publication of the commissions re port is allowed for the disputants tc agree to settlement, after which "the parties in dispute shall recover entire liberty of action to proceed as their interests may dictate" While the commission is Investigating, how ever, none of the parties shall begir mobilization or concentration O. troops on the frontier of the other nor engage in any hostile act ol preparations of hostilities."
 Should friendly arrangement fai to be reached even after the publica tion of the commissions report, the dispute may be submitted to the chief executive of one of the Amer ican republics who shall act as Friendly compositor" and render ar