Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-14
Timely Views
PAN.AMERIcAN PEACE TREATY
b. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
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IuFher secretary OF states.
(Charles Evans Hughes was born al Clens Falls.
=. Y, April IL, 1862. He attended Colgate for two
years. i a graduate Of Brown university. He was
admitted to the bar in 1854 and began practicing in
New York City. Defeated for the office Of mayor
Of New York IN 1905, he was elected governor or
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 republic
can party for president Of the United States in 1916
but Woodrow Wilson defeated him for the office.
He returned 10 his law practice in New York City
from 1917 to 1921. Serving as secretary Of state
for the four following years, Hughes was commits
sioner plenipotentiary for the United States at the
International Conference of Armament Limitation
az Washington in 1921, serving as chairman; a
member of the Permanent Court Of International
Justice at The Hague in 1925; and chairman Of
the u :. delegation to the sixth ~Pan-American con
ference at Havana, Cuba. early in 1928. He is .
member Of several state and national legal So
cietics).
On behalf of the government Of the United States
I was happy to report that the delegates Of the United
States would sign the Treaty Of Arbitration without
any reservations. providing for arbitration between all
the republics Of the western hemisphere. We consid-
cred the treaty as a notable advance in the develop.
ment of peaceful settlement. It IA is quite obvious that
il is not sufficient to renounce war unless We are read
to have recourse to the processes of peace.
The resolution adopted At Havana under which this
conference has met proposed that there should be a
treaty of obligatory arbitration with respect to juridicxl
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 a juridical char
acter.
They are jurIdlcal because they can be used by the
application OF the principles Of law. Then in order to
explain even more fully what is meant we find in arti-
Gle 2 a specific statement Of certain categories. I Nigh.
say that it il a classical statement Of certain categories
which are deemed to be susceptible OF determination b.
the application Of principles Of law.
That being so, when we come to consider the exeep.
tions which arc 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-
itions, 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. il the parties
cannot dispose Of the controversy smicablyr is TO an a
ternational tribunal. We have sought to provide the
means for constituting such a tribunal in this treaty