The President: Then the resolution as amended will be, 66 Resolved, That we congratulate the United States and all nations co-operating to promote peace in the world. upon the wonderful progress they have made during the last year in establishing a permanent International Court at The Hague, and in the conferences at Washington, and elsewhere, to bring about peaceable settlements of controversies between the nations. "Resolved, Further, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by the Secretary to the President, to the Secretary of State and to each senator of the United States." Mr. Burlingham: Mr. President, I hope you will, and I should like to have omitted the adjective "wonderful." I hope that the Committee will accept that. Joseph Wheless, of New York: Mr. President, I call attention to this, if you please. If the first clause of the resolution be eliminated and the second substituted, then there is no point, I suggest, in the third clause of the resolution transmitting copies to the Secretary of State and the senators, because they are not at all concerned in what may be done by the International Court at The Hague, and the bare reference contained therein to proceedings of conferences at Washington and elsewhere is of no concern to the senators. It is the first clause of the resolution that is pertinent to transmit to the senators, and unless they are interested in adopting the treaties that are submitted as a result of the conference, if you eliminate the first resolution, as originally read, there is nothing to transmit to the senators at all. The President: May I call your attention to the fact that the United States is not yet a party to the League of Nations, nor has it yet signed the protocol which would bring outside parties within the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice of the permanent Court of International Justice; and therefore, it would be entirely proper that the endorsement of this Association of the great principle of the settlement of international disputes, by resort to the judicial processes, should be communicated to the representatives of the United States. I take it that this Association has for years been endeavoring to bring about what has reasonably been accomplished, and in order to effectuate that object, it would be necessary that the United States declare its approval of the protocol and come within the jurisdiction of the court. Therefore the second division of that resolution is entirely appropriate in instructing the Secretary to send our resolution to the President, the Secretary of State and the senators. Mr. Wheless: That is very lucidly explained. The President: And that is satisfactory, is it? Mr. Wheless: It is, still I think that the resolution might well contain the first clause, because that is a matter with which we are more intimately now concerned, the proceedings in the conference at Washington, in urging upon the senators the appropriate treaties resulting therefrom. The President: The Committee, however, has accepted Mr. Burlingham's amendment. William J. Campbell, of New York: Mr. Chairman, would it not be unfortunate to leave out this reference in the first resolution for the limitation of armaments, the congratulation of this Association to the President, to the Secretary of State and the senators, for submitting to that conference definite plans for the immediate limitation of naval armaments. That is the chief accomplishment of the conference. It seems to me it is perfectly in order to accept the original and the supplemental reports, and to move the adoption of the resolutions of both the original report and the supplemental report. Mr. Clark: There seems to be another omission. Did you leave off the original resolution, the one pledging the support of this Association to the action of the government in this limitation of armaments? The President : That is not included in the resolution as it is now before the house. Mr. Clark: So I understand. The President : The whole of the first part of the resolution, as proposed in the printed report, the whole of that is eliminated. Mr. Clark: That is what I say. If it is eliminated and left out, then we do not pledge our support to the action of the government. The President: Is that necessary? Mr. Clark: Not necessary, no, but it seems to be quite desirable, inasmuch as the Secretary of State is one of our former presidents, to let him feel and-appreciate that the Association stands behind him in the action which he had taken, and in what he is endeavoring to do. The President: Are there any other remarks on the resolutions now before the Association? Mr. Morse: May I inquire through the chair whether this resolution constitutes an endorsement of the covenant of the League of Nations, and a proposition that the United States become a party to it in any way? The President: In no way whatever. Gentlemen, the resolution before the Association is as follows: 66 Resolved, That we congratulate the United States, and all nations co-operating to promote peace in the world, upon the progress they have made during the last year in establishing a permanent International Court at The Hague, and in the conferences at Washington and elsewhere, to bring about peaceable settlements of controversies between the nations. "Resolved, Further, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by the Secretary to the President, the Secretary of State and to each senator of the United States." Are you ready for the question? Those in favor of the resolution as submitted by the Committee will say "aye;" opposed "no." It seems to be carried. Charles Henry Butler, of New York, presented the report of the Committee as follows: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNA- To the New York State Bar Association: Your Committee on International Arbitration reports as follows: At the meeting of this Association in 1920, this Committee called the attention of the Association to the action it had previously taken in reference to international agreements for the purpose of establishing an International Court, reducing armaments, and preventing, as far as possible, an appeal to war. At the last meeting of the Association it called attention to the agreement between twenty-two nations to establish a permanent Court of International Justice. Since that time other nations have joined in this agreement. The Permanent Court of International Justice was organized by the League of Nations at Geneva in September last, and the judges duly elected. The judges elected were Messrs. Altamira of Spain, Anzilotti of Italy, Barbosa of Brazil, deBustamante of Cuba, Lord Finlay of Great Britain, Loder of The Netherlands, Oda of Japan, Weiss of France, Moore of the United States, Nyholm of Denmark, and Huber of Switzerland. The following deputy judges were also elected: Negulesco of Roumania, Wang of China, Yovanovitch of Jugo-Slavia and Beichmann of Norway. According to the November issue of the Monthly Summary of the League of Nations, forty-five States have signed the Protocol for the Court, twenty-six have deposited their ratification and six have announced their intention to ratify. We desire now to call attention to the notable progress that has been made in a direction closely allied to that of the establishment of the International Court, that is to say, the limitation of armaments. A conference on this subject was called by the United States and held its first meeting at Washington, November 12, 1921. This was attended by delegations of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, China, Holland, Belgium and Portugal. The conference was opened by an address from the President, who summed up its purpose in these memorable words: "We wish to sit with you at the table of international understanding and good-will. In good conscience we are eager to meet you frankly, and invite and offer co-operation. The world demands a sober contemplation of the existing order and the realization that there can be no cure without sacrifice, not by one of us, but by all of us.” Secretary of State Hughes, whom we all delight to honor, was then, on the nomination of Mr. Balfour, selected as the permanent Chairman. The object of the conference was thus stated by him: "The President invited the Governments of the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan to participate in a conference on the subject of limitation of armament, in connection with which Pacific and Far Eastern questions also |