Garland Globe | 1907-08-17 | Page 2 | Would Prohibit Crews of Warships from Being Paid Prize Money

Would Prohibit Crews of Warships from Being Paid Prize Money. Tho Hague.. Tho French pinpoxal to prohibit tho crews of wnrsblps fiom being paid prlzo money wns dl'sciiFsed on Wednesday before tho committee on tho Geneva convention and carried, 10 votes to I. Fourteen delegates abstained ab-stained from voting and twelve were ubsent. Joseph Choate, of tho American Amer-ican delegation, pointed out In this collection thnt the laws of tho I'nlted States already prohibited tho paying of prlzo money. Another proposal made was that by France, that the owners of captured merchantmen should bo Indemnified, was passed. J