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Show II, - U Tl H AM E R I N Salvador W o u Id Exclude United States Pan-Amer- I ican Union Would Be II . WASHINGTON, April 10. (By the II , Associated Press.) After studying I the state department's interpretation II of ihe Monroe doctrine sent several II weeks ago, the congress of Salvador I adopted a decree proposing the crea- P tion of n Latin-American court of arbl- f (ration with the United States exclud- Shonld the proposed court so decide, de-cide, the Pan-American union, with the . headquarters here, the Central Anier- 1 A " ican. court of jusiico of Cartage- and j the international bureau of Guatema'a, I ' in the formulation of which the Uniiedj I Slates was instrumental, would be J I nbblislied. j" Copies of Decree Sent Out, N It was learned today that copies of the decree had been communicated to I the Central and South American re- I publics. A copy also has been received - at the state department, but has not been made public As received here Ihrough other official channels, the decree de-cree follows: j "The executive is hereby authorized to address the chancellories o& the Latin-American countries through t vhate er instrumentalities he may deem most suitable with a view to', bringing to their knowledge and con-J of arbitration to settle international , difficulties of any nature arising among the signatory powers subject to the following conditions: "1 Each of the signatory powers) shall name through its respective leg- islative branch a judicial representative representa-tive who shall serve for the -period! fixed by its constitution. The seat of I i.-" ' . the court shall be chosen by the governments. gov-ernments. "2 The signatory powers shall submit sub-mit to the court all questions that might give riso to international complications, com-plications, wherever they cannot bet settled by the members involved. In the event of a conflict arising between the signatory powers and another na- tion not signatory to the court, and no agreement having been reached, the signatory powers shall place all the. documents in the case at the disposal dis-posal of the court which shall proceed as it .deems best toward the settlement settle-ment of the difficulty. If, unfortunately. unfortunate-ly. this friendly settlement should fail, notice thereof shall be given to the signatory powers so that thoy make common cause and order the closing of their ports to the trade of the offending of-fending country; and should this not prove adequate, they shall be bound to render assistance with their land and sea forces. The countrybenofited shall be obliged to bear the expenses according to its resources and in the . discretion of the courL "3 The court shall aid in the con- . struction of ships among the signatory ! 'j .powers which do not now possess them, these shall be devoted in times of peace to trade purposes aud during the war to coastwise defense. To Prevent Civil Wars. , "1 Should civil war break out in a signatory power, the court may inter-i vene to bring about a cessation of the " horrors whenever it shall deem it necessary, and the other, powers shall ( lend their aid as may be determined. ( "5 The court shall devote special attention to the enactment of adequate, ade-quate, uniform legislation among the signatory powers and to stimulating the friendliest possible relations. "6 The executive is hereby authorized author-ized to offer tho capital of the republic, repub-lic, to the other nations in the event that no other be chosen for' the first meeting, and to pay the necessary ox- "JT Immediately after the installation installa-tion of the Latin-American court, the Central American court of justice of Curtago, the international bureau of Guatemala and the international bureau bu-reau of American republics (the Pan-jl Pan-jl American union) with its seat in Washington, shall cease to function j should the court so decide." |