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Show AMERICAR BAR HIS Highest Legal Authority in the Nation Agrees With President Wilson on League of Nations Without Reservations. Two Members of the American Bar Association Will Present Minority Reports. St. Louis, Aug. 4. Ratification of the peace treaty, including the League of Nations covenant, without amendments, will be recommended at the convention of the American Bar association here, August 25 to 27, inclusive. in-clusive. The recommendation will be in the majority report of a special committee appointed to consider the treaty. The committee which signed the report was composed of Edgar A. Bancroft, of Chicago; William H. Wadhams, of New York, and the late Frederick N. Judson, of this city. Charles Blood Smith, of Topeka, Kan., and Henry St. George Tucker, of Lexington, Va., will present a minority min-ority report, in which they assert they are "unable to concur with the majority ma-jority commitee. Sections of reports to be presented at the convention have been received by members of the local arrangements arrange-ments committee. The reports treat of various subjects. "Your commitee is of the opinion that the treaty, including the proposals pro-posals for a league of nations, should be ratified without amendment," the majority report on the treaty declares. "The world is anxious to .retu.rn- to " "' - - - more settled "condition which awaits - ', " ' " " the termination of the great war. If amendments are proposed by the United States, other governments would undoubtedly propose amendments, amend-ments, and it is unlikely that a second sec-ond conference could produce a more satisfactory treaty. " "It is particularly fitting that the United States should support the proposal pro-posal for this league. The league ia based upon our own experience in a federation of states enjoying liberty and peace. It has been our high destiny des-tiny to join with our allies in preventing pre-venting the destruction of liberty and. establishing it as the governing principle prin-ciple In the life of the states. "Upon entering the war we expressed ex-pressed it as our desire and purpose to secure not only for ourselves, but for all nations of the world, an enduring endur-ing peace, based upon those principles of liberty and of justice which we enjoy. en-joy. The league is organized for that purpose. Should the United States refuse re-fuse to enter the league it would defeat de-feat its -organization; should the United States join, it gives the best assurance of its success." Dealing wfth the subject of amendments amend-ments and reservations, the reports iterates that amendments are destructive de-structive to the pact, and emphasizes that only interpretative reservations should be permitted. Another report suggests that the election of the president of the United States and his inauguration be brought nearer together, aild that the short session of the old congress be abandoned. The interval between the election and Inauguration of a president, thla report declares, is a "serious evil, fraught with much danger, because, if an administration is discredited by a popular vote of want of confidence, the prestige of the government at home and abroad is weakened and there is danger of humiliation and disaster to the republic." The report does not recommend any other date for the election or the inauguration. Recommendation that the making of rules for the conduct of aviation be held in abeyance until airplanes become more numerous, Is set forth in another report. The committee on International law will present a report which states that, after outlining developments of the reconstruction period, it ' "finds little to record of wise and final adjustment ad-justment or of complete accord." Commenting Com-menting on the meeting of the organization organ-ization committee of the permanent court of international Justice under the League of Nations, the report says: "At last a body distinctly legal, a body of our cloth and profession, is seeking, and is given an opportunity to organize international justice and prepare for Its enforcement in the world." A large number of prominent speakers speak-ers are expected to address the association, asso-ciation, ii.cludlng Sir Auckland Ged-dos, Ged-dos, British ambassador to tha United States; Franklin K. Lane, former secretary of the interior; Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, former United States senator, and Judge Ben B. Lindsay Lind-say of Denver. Hampton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, is president of the association. |