Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-14
Timely Views
PAN-AMERIcAN PEACE TREATY DISCUSSED
By CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
Former Secretary Of States.

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tCharIes Evans Hughes was born at Glens Falls.
N. w. April IL. 1862. He attended Colgate for two
years, is a graduate Of Brown university. He Vas
admitted TO the bar in 1854 and began practicins in
New York City. Defeated for the office Of mayor
oi New York IN 1905, ne was elected governor OF
the state in 1907, serving two terms. In 1910 he
was named associate justice Of the United States
supreme court. He was nominated by the republi-
can party for president Of the United States in 1915
but Woodrow Wilson defeated him for the office.
he returned to his law practices in New York City
from 1917 to 1921. Serving as secretary Of state
Tor the four following years, Hughes was commits
sioner plenipotentiary for the United States at the
International Conference Of Armament Limitation
Al washington IN 1921, serving rs chairman; a
member Of the Permanent Court Of International
Justice at The Hague in 1925; and chairman ot
the u. S. delegation to the sixth ~Pan-American con-
ference at Havana, Cuba. early in 1925. He is a
member az several state and national legal So
cieties).
On behalf Of the government Of the United States
! was happy to report that the delegates Of the Unite
States would sign the Treaty Of Arbitration withou,
any reservations, providing for arbitration between al
the republics OF the western hemisphere. We eonsid.
cred the treaty as a notable advance in the develop.
ment of peaceful settlement. It is quite obvious that
u is not sufficient to renounce war unless We are read,
to have recourse 60 the processes Of peace.
The resolution adopted at Havana under which thi.
conference has met proposed that there should b. a
treaty Of obligatory arbitration with respect to juridicaI
questions. That at once defined the field. That field
Is specifically defined in the first article OF this pro.
posed treaty. In that article it is stated that the con.
troversies in question are those Of q ~iuridical char
acter.
They are ~juridical because they can be used BY the
application of the principles Of law. Then in order to
explain even more fully what i meant we find in arti-
Gle : a specific statement of certain categories. I nigh.
say that it is a classical statement of certain cstegories
which are deemed TO be susceptible Of determination D.
the application Of principles Of Law.
That being so, when We come to consider the excep.
tions which are to be introduced. We have in mind two
fields Of obligations: Those where the obligations are
created in the exercise Of sovereignty and which fail
within the domestic jurisdictions; and, the other obliga-
tions. which are created by international law and which
arc not susceptible Of final determination through local
tribunals without the Intervention OF an appropriate in.
ternational tribunal.
In other words, where a treaty Is concerned, for ex-
ample, or matters which have given rise to rights under
international Law, the appropriate resort, if the parties
cannot dispose OF the controversy amicably, is to an L.
ternational tribunal. We have sought to provide the
means for constituting such a tribunal in this treaty.