Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-30 | Page 1 | A Mammoth Edition, Not in Perfect Accord

NOT IN PERFECT ACCORD PanAmerican Congress Not a Unit 1 on Question of Arbitration Mexico City Dee 2A slight difficulty haM arisen in tho PanAmerican congress In the matter of arbitration It had been arranged that all delegations were to ad hero to Tho Hague convention and all nations In favor of compulsory arbltra Lon were to sign another treaty among themselves embodying that principle Tho latter group say that they agree to this arrangement as a compromise but with the distinct understanding that both plans vero to bo presented to the conference Now It seems that tho United States delegates and others who arc In favor of Tho Hague convention pure and simple wish to exclude the compulsory plan from ho conference leaving those nations which ale In favor of It to sign i outside and Independently of the conference This the compulsory will b part 1 by no means agree to and two or three of them old the Associated Press correspondent his evening that unless both plans are presented they will refuse to alga the arrangement angement for joining Tho lingua canyon lon They say that they arc not admirers of that convention and they only agreed to adhere to It on condition that their own plan shoUld also have tim sanction of the conference while they recognize of course that It would only bo obligatory upon the signatory nations The matter IK I minor one r hut unless sallsfoctorlly uclllcd by a conference upon the part of the friends of The llnguo convention the action o the SpanlshAnjcrlcan conferenceon the mat ter of arbitration will by no meant be as harmonious as expected