Show f 1 E 1 I AMERIG I l C N 11 PROPOSITION Great Britain Does Docs Not Adhere to Doctrine of Inviolability of Private Private Private vate Property at Sea IT DOES NOT SEEM POPULAR Virus Im Muller ps ns Olio Tim Question or of Contraband And Anil Limitation b of ot Ihn hn Hague flat July S j The Th ft sitting of or limo iho committee In n the tho t convention e was WIM w ae glen given ncr r to a lIl u lon ot of Ihn Iho Ir po printed J by br Jo eph H U Choate hI at on 11 n June Julie 4 t lc the HIP In int of or l private t n property on tI the fie high hl h seas 5 as Tho fUe sat lIt at under the oC ot Protessor ilo Ie Mar lur Martens tens t rn e SI lII 1 I l a president a drat dent of or the conference C was t present t e I IJ J H R Choate to den aen Horace ElIr or orter t ter tel L V Af M r Rose Roso no o and ancl William I t Ian Dueh Duch h awin nr n of Hi UI American delegation and JlII J T HII II minister to till thi X O th M lands In tn Tl 1 proposition la is I as IS tol fol follow low loll The private property properly proper of ot all II nr or powers with iho Ih exception exception tion of ot contraband of ot war wr shall hi 1 h exempt on the high hl h seas ROBS or rise CIRO from capture nr or by In the he mined 1 01 or military faces ol or said nid powers Nothing In this thin rule ruin B In any way w to tho the Inviolability of or v fR els lg which will attempt to enter n putt part blockaded by y the tho naval forces o 0 or said powers nor to the tho verge co ol or sail Mid 1 vos pK W w V IJ n lt Holland then ii 1101 ml n a that the Dutch Hutch government adhered to tho iho American principle POSITION Huy y then a long lOll speech h In which ho explained that the slat motto modo by him on June JURI 28 38 g had bon bell wrongly wl n ll as an lIn adhesion to the tho American proposition Ilo 11 wished Hl to tomake make It Jt clear that thIt was wall not nit tho the thoc ther c r oC of America but that silo she he I th Ills American principle for forthe tho the reason that l capture never brought I victory to any one on Oil I Prot do then rend read r oll n Il declaration d In III writing bj by b the delegation del t saying they I I Ie WIIO favorable to conservation of oC the tho ho right of C capture BRITISH DECLARATION D Sir Salow SatOW then made a Il dec elee on behalf of or Client Orcut Britain Ho lie said sold he ho tho the char actor neter oc at C the tho arguments In iii favor ot of Inviolability of bf II rha on tho the high lIon but bill time tho III tho and logical i ten tn dency dt toward abolition of the com COlli commercial mercial blockade Sir Ernest t demon demonstrated demonstrated to try What wint extent the tho limitation of ot blockades would complicate milt mat t tua tors r and MUI 1111 1 cranto cr now naW causes os of ot dispute as CM a n nS result of or which tho the lIseu bo be tween would l give rise rIp to f h Irritation which might tend to prolong it II 1 Tho the tho Inviolability war lily Instead of ot or property proper y and nr limitation of nr blockades bl aro tiro aLl able questions the English 1 n d 1 and nod Great Creat for tOI the moment do s not find thu move moe ment toward tho the Ideal atm aim namely the tho abolition of ot war sufficiently ac Ile accentuated to 10 bo he chic able to n s her hor herself stir self with the American doctrine What Great Britain thinks sary IIII is III t tor ter the tho interests of or neutral neutrals that Ihal Is In wh why hy she he proposed NI the abolition ot or contraband said Sir Ernest Gt miA t b STAND STA wD D Baron Doron von O bc ui his hI remark by 11 set ting link forth that over never had been hen in III favor tit YOI or of the capture of or private vate property ut l t aoa Sann ami 1 consequently Mr a s Idea Iden would onto 1 certainly find finda a n sympathetic echo C throughout Ger Germany moat many nut r the capture of ot abolishing ab the tho rIght of this seemed to him to be ho hoeI eI sely With two hlo other othol ques questions tons tolls namely that of ot contraband and the tho violation of or n a blockade two questions ques IlleR questions lions which would woul 1 havo at once to bo ho n lIS as otherwise e army any ITI procla proclamation mation matlon of Qt toe the Immunity of ct private property would bo 1 In vain and the tho actual system ot of today would remain In force Germany would be bo ready rend to collaborate collaborate orate In Ut the tho protection of ot private prop 1101 erty ert at tIl sea aca but on condition that the tho th question how to make lilts protection he ho first elucidated QUESTION NOT mpg M I In ht ids his hl turn declared the Russian delegation had profound respect for the th Ideas set forth foith bj by b Mr tr Choate which so creditably rep represented represented resented the traditions of or the tho United States Slates but Iut they did not think the question wife yet ot ripe Ill for foi solution Much preparatory Judicial work was necessary lOr to reach rench a General under understanding understanding standing of ot matter and the tho Rus nun Russian Russian sian detention delegation did I I not the Iho conference would succeed In od ing the question lIon from Its Us pies present nt status NORWAY Dr then Ilten voiced the adherence ence Inee of or Norway to II the American doc doctrine doctrine trine Up Ito referred to the th Important commercial Interests of or Norway at sea and sate ald his country although small III In area arct was surpassed In the of or by b only ani a it few other thel nations Norway Norn will vote yote for forthe forthe the tho proposition that the question of contraband lie be examined The delegation subscribed to the statement made etude by the iho Gorman Ger delegates expressing the belief beller that It Is to solve salve the time questions of ot nail and contraband Perez a member of or the dele delo delegation gallon gation front from the United States Stales of ot Col Colombia Colombia made a l speech of or extreme length th He JIo said Colombia must re refuse hose fuse to subscribe to the proposition ot or the he United States BAKES M t explained tint that for tor a II na tion like 1110 Colombia with n a merchant marine and with hardly any naval nom 1 strength that there Is everything to lose and nothing to gall gain h b the sus suspension suspension pension of or the right to capture private ate Rte property on the high seas Ilea In conclusion M made mude Ironical reference to 10 President Roosevelt He lie President Roosevelt may rna consider himself a happy mortal If It when he descends from the tho presidential chair which for Its prestige power powel and Pu po 10 may mn be he compared to the thrones of kings timid and emperors or 01 at nt ata n a later period the hour of the setting sun Hun of ota a life lite filled with energetic ac RC activity he may with uplifted head bead mid and laying his Ills hand upon his hla heart henrt declare before the history of the world that thal on every er nail mid nit nil occasion mid and at al all nil times he has Imas respected the rights of or orthe the weak of oC Justice and of or humanity even to the detriment of oC the political Interests and ambitions of or his own oln country When n man possesses that degree of or moral authority he Is clr entitled to summon before him time the nations and amid peoples of ot the worM world In la order older to ask them to act disinter disinterestedly disinterestedly In the cause of or humanity FRANCES ATTITUDE M JI t Renault Trance said sal ho he lecoS recognized the matter to be ba complicated by II the tho questions connected with width It mid and that these questions must be hn solved The right of ot capture must be bl exercised In accordance with the following Colle willI con 1 I L That It ll be not exercised In ht the Interest of or lucre and to accomplish this end Ind the time right of or booty hoot must meet be abolished 2 P That It be used used d only ns as a means meana or of attack k on states stoles and und not on Indi Individuals At the conclusion of oC the remarks of or M lit Renault Mr Rose noso delivered u II speech In which he reviewed the time entire question He Ile enumerated l many Judi Judicial cial humanitarian and mind economical reasons ren In support of or the American proposition He contended that private nit ate property at nt Pea Sen en Is III not mint contraband of ot war var Is 18 entitled to m the tho same protection protection protection tion now enjoyed d by b private property on oft land lie He added that this was not nn an American doctrine that It U had long been Icen approved by h many statesmen anu LIllO nib Jurists or of distinction and that It hud had been heen embodied in III many treaties The present rulings of International law lair forbidding time the th pillaging of or private property on land Mr air Ir Rose went on In und mid ut at the amo Caine tints time permitting It at rot u non mien are lire notoriously ly unjust Indefensible ble never should hould have existed ape and should be abolished us speedily as pos poe possible sible Sir Kir 1 Try P Fr Great Britain expressed ex exl pressed l the tho opinion tint that capture ut III alsea sea ea was wat one Ode of ot time the least Inhuman raw methods lode hOlIs of or wor 01 The rhe he committee adjourned until Wed Wednesday |