Opening Address At The Lake Mohonk Conference On International Arbitration

Author : Lake Mohonk Conference on Arbitration
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458961297
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration written by Lake Mohonk Conference on Arbitration and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE THIRD LAKE MOHONK ARBITRATION CONFERENCE. JFirst Session. Wednesday Morning, June 2, 1897. The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration met for its third annual session, by invitation of Hon. and Mrs. Albert K. Smiley, in the parlor of the Lake Mohonk House, on the 2d of June, 1897, at ten o'clock in the morning. Mr. Smiley opened the Conference with an address of welcome to the gentlemen and ladies who had assembled. He expressed his hopes of a successful conference, and asked that there might be the freest discussion, always with a spirit of Christian kindliness. The rejection of the arbitration treaty, which at first sight seemed discouraging, had at least resulted, he said, in bringing the subject of arbitration before the world and arousing discussion, which must in the end convince the American people that arbitration is the only just way of settling disputes between nations. Mr. Smiley then nominated, as the President of the Conference, the Honorable George F. Edmunds, who was unanimously elected, and was welcomed to the chair with hearty applause. Judge Edmunds then spoke as follows: OPENING ADDRESS. BY THE PRESIDENT, HON. GEORGE F. EDMUNDS. Ladies and Gentlemen, ? I need not say that I appreciate in the highest degree the kindness of your calling upon me to preside. I can see before me many gentlemen who are better suited for such duties than I am, but I am willing to do the best I can. A year ago, when we met here, the subject of arbitration, so far as regarded government action, was almost entirely in the dark. There were vague hints that negotiations were going on with Her Majesty's government of Great Britain, the Empress of the Indies, whose jubilee is about to be celebrated, whose reign has covered a period of sixty years of...