The Legal World ‘3 :1‘! International Law
day, addresses were made by Hunting
ton Vilson, Congressman Richard Bar American Society of International Law. — The fifth annual meeting of the Soci
ety was held at Washington, D. C., April 27-29. At the opening session Senator Root, president of the Society, delivered an address, after which there was a general discussion of "the status of resident aliens in international law,’I
in which Charles Cheney Hyde of Chicago, Prof. James F. Colby of Dart mouth College, S. Mallet-Prevost and James Barclay of New York took part. At the two following days’ sessions “The Admission and Restrictions upon the Admission of Aliens" and kindred topics were discussed by Solicitor Earl of the
Department of Commerce and Labor, Theodore Marburg of Baltimore, Prof. Charles Noble Gregory of Iowa State
University, Prof. J. W. Garner of the University of Illinois, Frederic R. Cou dert, and others. The annual banquet was made notable by an address of
President Taft, the honorary president, dealing with the sanction of inter national law, other speakers being Japan
tholdt, James L. Slayden, Prof. E. H.
Grifien, Dr. F. W. Boatweight and James Speyer. One of the chief speeches made at the Congress was that of Hon. John W. Foster, former Secretary of State, on
the afternoon of the closing day, scor ing our neutrality laws for the faults revealed in connection with the Mexican
difficulty. Other addresses were made by Dr. T. Iyenaga, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Price Collier, President E. D. Warfield of Lafayette College, Speaker Champ Clark, Henry Clews, Edwin Ginn and United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, who was elected president, the other ofiicers chosen being: Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston,
secretary, and George W. White of Washington, D. C., treasurer.
The proposed unlimited treaty of arbi tration between Great Britain and the United States drew forth appreciative remarks from many of the speakers. The proposed League of Peace, as dis
ese Ambassador Uchida, Sir Charles
cussed by Mr. Holt, excited interest, as did also the suggestion of James Speyer
Fitzpatrick, Chief Justice of Canada; Martin A. Knapp of the Court of Com
the New York banker, that war might be prevented by “financial neutrality." In
merce; Representative Foster of Ver
case two nations went to war without
mont and Senator Henri La Fontaine of Belgium.
first submitting their diflerenoes to arbi tration, why, he asked, should not the other neutral powers bind themselves not to assist either of the belligerentS
Third National Peace Congress. — The Third National Peace Congress met in Baltimore May 3-5, the first having been held in New York in 1907, and the second in Chicago in 1909. President
Taft opened the Congress with an address, and other speakers on the first day included Harry Holt, presi
dent of the Congress, Cardinal Gibbons and Andrew Carnegie. On the second
financially?
The Madrid Conference. —The Insti tute of International Law, meeting at Madrid early in May, considered the question of the employment of mines by
neutral powers for the protection of their neutrality. The law relating to international aerial navigation received
