REPORT

OF THE

SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE

ON

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

1901

REPORTED BY WILLIAM J. Rose

PUBLISHED BY

THE LAKE MOHONK ARBITRATION CONFERENCE

President: HON. J. H. STINESS, Providence, R. I.

Secretaries: CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, Philadelphia; WILLIAM J. ROSE,

Boston.

Treasurer: ALEXANDER C. WOOD, Camden, N. J.

Business Committee: EVEREtt P. WheeLER, New York, Chairman; JOHN F. ANDERSON, New York; WILLIAM P. BANCROFT, Wilmington, Del.; JUDGE ALDEN CHESTER, Albany; JOHN B. CLARK, New York; WILLIAM J. COOMBS, Brooklyn; JOHN B. GARRETT, Rosemont, Pa.; JOHN I. GILBERT, Malone, N. Y.; DR. EDWARD E. HALE, Boston; OSCAR LAPHAM, Providence, R. I.; WALTER S. LOGAN, New York; ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Boston; DANIEL SMILEY, Lake Mohonk ; JOSIAH STRONG, New York; BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, Boston; CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, Philadelphia.

Permanent Executive Committee: The President and the Business Committee, Publication Committee: BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, Chairman, and WILLIAM J. ROSE, Boston; ALEXANDER C. WOOD, Camden, N. J.

Press Committee: JOHN B. LANDER, New York, Chairman; MARSHALL H. BRIGHT, Tarrytown, N. Y.; WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, New York; C. G. TRUMBULL, Philadelphia; S. BURNS WESTON, Philadelphia.

Finance Committee: EDWIN GINN, Boston, Chairman; JOSHUA L. BAILY, Philadelphia; FRANCIS FORBES, New York.

PREFACE.

The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration was held, on the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Albert K. Smiley, at the Lake Mohonk House, Ulster County, N. Y., May 29, 30 and 31, 1901. There were six sessions of the Conference. This Report contains the stenographic account of the proceedings, which consisted of addresses and discussions on the history of arbitration, the Hague permanent court and the means of bringing it into early operation, industrial arbitration in its international aspects, the relations of commerce to peace, and kindred topics.

One copy of this Report is sent to each member of the Conference. If other copies are desired, application should be made to Mr. Smiley.

THE SEVENTH LAKE MOHONK ARBITRATION

CONFERENCE.

First Session.

Wednesday Morning, May 29, 1901.

THE Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration met for its seventh annual session, by invitation of Hon. and Mrs. Albert K. Smiley, in the parlors of the Lake Mohonk House, on the 29th of May, 1901.

Mr. Smiley opened the Conference, at the close of the usual service of prayer, and welcomed the guests in the following words:

MR. SMILEY: It gives me the greatest pleasure to welcome you to this house at this time. It is one of the best days in my year when this Conference assembles, and I am glad to see so many men gathered here with earnest hearts and wise heads to discuss some of the great questions before the country.

I think this question of international arbitration is one of the most serious and important questions that claim the attention of Christian men and women. Although things have not worked together for the past year or two quite to our liking, still I am ful! of hope. I expect to live to see the day when the Court already established shall be used freely by all nations, and the great day for which we have looked so many years will come, when peace shall prevail.

This company has been gathered here at a great deal of trouble. Many people to whom we write say they cannot come, and others accept our invitation and then are prevented from coming. But we have here nearly two hundred invited guests, and there are some twenty-five or thirty who have accepted and who will probably be here to-day.

In looking over the list of members of this Conference, I have been very much struck with the number of people who are brainy, full of thought, full of sympathy and general intelligence, and who have the confidence of the community in which they live. We never had a conference, in my judgment, that embraced so large a number of prominent people as this Conference does. I think there are fully sixty people in this house who are capable of interesting us most intelligently for an hour each.