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Show I LEADING LEGAL LIGHT I Uriah M. Rose, ono or tho most distinguished rp r '-. - - '.vj, figures In tho lnrgo delegation of noted Americans ' wk to Tho Hague Intornutlonnl penco, conference, baa i H been for many yenra regarded as tho most schol- jff k 1 urly lawyer In America. Tho man who Is to-day ' jSSsa1 n world-famed authority on International law and ,&, R '-1 1 a powerful advocate of tho new codo of a'rbltra- Rp" tjfff'i' ton for settling: the disputes of nations, wns jS Ri: ' '1 born 73 years ago In the backwoods of Kentucky. ' M'j' 11 At tho ago of 19. when Abraham Lincoln wns win- llv t'v ' nlng ramo as a lawyer, young Rosu began his brll- ' KKii. wM$ 1 llnnt career berore the bnr or tho "Hluo Grass" y$p Ja?' '' 'Hh Btnt0- WhJi''J ' 'H While ho has always been prominent In poll- A HffisSlkf' .',''? lH tics und a member or tho nntlonnl Democratic ' jjjj ir Imt-'i'" .1 central Comniltteo tor years, ho lias studiously re- lffi-nV I - JSKftt. 'H fused public olllce. For the past quarter or a century ho has been In tbo iH foremost rank ot the Arkansas bar and reckoned as ono of tho- lending legal lights of tho nation, rer-Jng for three years as president of the Aniorlcan' liar association. Judgo Rose has been a great traveler and observer of Inter-national Inter-national conditions. Ho hns contributed to tbo law Journals many articles.- on American and European Jurisprudence, particularly noteworthy among JH theso being his papers on "Controversies of Modem Continental Jurists." 1 Judge Roso Is a lino French schalnr, n fact of .considerable Importanco JH nud usefulness to tho delegation, ns much of the conferences will bo con- ducted iu French. jH |
