Smyrna times., 1938-12-22


gress, of a so-called Secret Cor
respondence Commission, whose
purpose it was to maintain COM
munication with friends and the
other colonies and parts Of the
world" which in 1777 was sue
ceeded by a so-called Foreign At
fairs Commission Both of these
having proved to be inefficient, the
Department of Foreign Affairs
was created in January 1881, with
Robert r. Livingston Of New York
as its first Secretary. In. 1889 a
law passed by the Congress, now
under the Constitution, reorgan-
lied the Department Of Foreign
Affairs, which by a law Of Sep
tember 1889 was given the name
Iof Department Of State, and its
head that Of Secretary Of State
III 1T is sufficient to recall the illustri-
Gus names Of Thomas Jefferson,
John Marshall, James Madison,
James Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Henry Clay Martin van
Buren, Daniel Webster, James
Buchanan, Hamilton Fish, James
Blaine, Thomas F. Bayard, Rich
ard Olney, John Hay, Elihu Root,
III Charles Evans Hughes and Cordell
Hull, among others, to gain an
idea Of the calibre Of the men that
have been in charge Of directing
the foreign affairs Of the great
Republic and in whose State De
partment it can be said that Judge
Moore has held every post, in-
cluding that of Counselor in 1913
1914 with the right to sign for the
H Secretary of State.
From 1885 until the war with
Spain in 1889, when Judge Moore
was Secretary and Counselor to
the Mixed Peace Commission that
met in Paris. the matters that
drew the attention of the Depart
ment of State, apart from various
treaties of friendship and com
merce signed with Denmark, Great
Britain, Portugal, Venezuela, etc.
or conventions that have establish
ed rules of Jurisprudence, such as
the conventions relating to the
Bering Sea fisheries, were mostly
| disputes arising from the ever
growing expansion and great eco
nomic development of the country.
During the period from 1900 to
1915 the United States definitely
advanced to first rank in the inter-
national concert of the great pow
! ers. It's intervention made itself
! felt in the World War in a strik-
) ing and decisive manner and, at
the present time, when the world
: is apprehensive and distressed at
the possibility of a new confiagra-
ton, the great democracy of the
North is making its influence felt
on behalf of the maintenance of
the peace. Its "capitis diminutio"
disappeared after the war with
Spain.
This brief reference to the his
tory of the Department of State
makes a fitting frame for the
short review I shall give below of
the work done by Judge Moore as
publicist. In 1906 there appear
ed the 8 volumes of the Digest
which even today represent clas-
sical work on modern Information
al Law. But since 1887 the young
lawyer that was graduated from
the University of Virginia in 1880
begun to show an interest in the
Jus Centrum" In 1887 he pub
lished a report on "Extraterritor-
ial Crimes" and in 1890 another
one on "Extradition" in 1891 two
other volumes appeared, also on
"Fxtradition, in 1896 a work on
private International Law" in
1898 six volumes of the Digest of
International Arbitration" and it
would be a complicated task to
give a complete list of the essays,
books. treatises, opinions and var
ious other works of a similar ma
ture that Judge Moore has pre-
pared, for indeed, as I have said,
even at the present time he has a
volume on arbitration ready to be
published or already in the press.
After the appearance in 1906 OF
the Digest" a work that is SO
monumental and complete that it
is as much a paragon as that Of
Carlos Calvo, Judge Moore devot-
ed himself to the scientific inter