Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 2 | Root Explains Nations' Court

BOOT EXPLAINS NATIONS' COURT Workings of International Tribunal Tri-bunal in Handling Dispute Dis-pute Outlined NEW TORKi Oct. 22. Ellhu Itoot, in an (.orojw last night before the bar aJ& tatlon of the city of New Vork explained for :ho firm lime j aome of the accomplishment of the .International ommisslon 01 which be 1 is a mmber toward perfecting plan for a permanent court of International ! justice. I Mr. Hoot laid emphasis on the forward step taken at the conference at The Hague this year, when a basts was laid for determining what International Inter-national disagreement. are truls Ju- tlfiablc, and means for Insuring that sun DM61 should come b' fore an in- I ternational court with jurisdiction to ' settle them according to principles of law. i : M 10 COMPROMISE. The term. Justifiable." as applied to certain International diffi- uities hud in-, n used only in a VEglM sense In the trcntlc.- for arbitration negotiated l.y I'rieildent Taft. Mr. Hoot said, and It was one of the most serious problems prob-lems of the commission on which he ant to. define the term iu applied to I Inl i naUonal law The older system of The Hague trl- I bunal, In explained, tunctioned rather alona llnss of diplomacy than of strict Justice, and there was .i tendency to I compromise rather than udjudlcuti- I disputes In accordanc- with principles of law and Justice This. Mr. Hoot, SStd, was another feature which pr.--rit plans eliminate in favor of a more strictly Judicial procedure HANDLING OF DISPUTES. He- said the plan provides that the International court shall decide cases 'strictly aocordlng to law, letting the consequences take care of themselves." Nations with disputes to settle may, under the league vt nations, either consent," through representative in the SSSembly to Submitting differences differ-ences to the conn of arbitration or, lacking such consent, the question automatical)) goes to the council for set tlemcnf . Arbitration by the court, he said, is to be obligatory, "on all questions of strict lefinl right ' The provision, ho added, was Inserted In the plan In the exact words of the recommendation recommen-dation of the Amcriian Mar association associa-tion submitted to hlrn before he left America The plan provides that the court shall huve Jurisdiction also In all eases "f Interpretation of treaties or in considering con-sidering the advantage of defects of obligations over which the dispute In question arose.'- tie explained that the court consisted con-sisted of eleven Judges and four alternate al-ternate Judges. Including a chief judge. Th. so judges are elected by the assembly as-sembly of the league of nations from an eligible list recommended to it by Ihe several countries It wa pro vided that these recommendations should be made on behalf of the different dif-ferent countries by the present delegations dele-gations to The HagUs tribunal. When the nssembly of the league "i" nitiOfiB meets next month .,t fJen-eva," fJen-eva," Mr Root concluded, "there may bp so much opposition to the obligatory obliga-tory arbitration features of our plan that they will strike theni out This, he said, he hoped would not be done tus these constitute "a step forward." Every advance shock somebodv.'' he said. "To attempt to go too far. n.., f int and ull at once, almost SlwatS l ada to fulluro."