Show IMPORTANT CONVENTIONS The rue hague i Prize Court Fur s Con Con- tru Con lon Union T THE lIE Hague protocol to Th Tho of ot an iSe for tOr the court mentioned d In jn m prize last message embodying ann ann-al for Cor an au nit alternative Ve pr pro pro- whIch would remove Procedure objection to that remo e the tho Constitutional nar convention which part ot of The TIie Hague may mav be he an nn appeal to provides tiM that there ther the from tho the proposed court decisions of ot has received tho o sIgnature national court courts parties to ti or of the governments governments gov- gov and parte has been th t 2 orIginal c convention con con- n- n government of ot the ratified by bv the tho cether with wih the tile prize United iea Slat States Slates s. s to- to The Thc deposit of or the tho COurt c Convention the tho government of ot ratifications with wih awaits awais action acton b by ti the n Netherlands declaration signed n Tp POyer on the tho 26 1909 o of hi the nt at Lond LOndon n on OU I cb- cb law lav rUles of ot tonal to be r rec rna rna- meaning of article 7 within th tho artcle o ot n for tor The Tho n Hague the est hn con con- Cn- Cn prize e court COUr of oC f an In- In I Fur Seal Treaty The seal fur cont nearly twenty fIve cOntroversy v which for tor I source of serious i f-i Y Years rs h nas s been th the e I United Stat States s and ana friction between the I upon Ullon the tho North i the bordering I Pad subjects have boon ric Ic ocean whoso whose n l to en- en gage gAge In pelagic sealing Healing th tb seal fur-seal herds having their breeding j grounds within the jurisdiction breeding of ot th the United States has at last been sU satis sati adjusted by tho the conclusion of ot the North Pacific sealing convention entered Into between the United States i Great Britain Japan Japa and Russia RussIa on the da day of or Jul July last last This Is Js a conservation measure of ot very err treat importance and If It It Is carried out et In the spirit of reciprocal concession and ad advantage upon which It is based there Is every reason to believe beHove that not only will wf it i result In preserving the fur fur- seal herds of or the North Pacific ocea and restoring thorn them to their former forer value for Cor tho the purposes of commerce commer but lut also that It Jt will wil afford a perma satisfactory settlement of a e. question the thc only other solution of ot which seemed to bo be the total te tion ton of ot the fur tur seals In another as as- as j as-j also this convention is of ot Ira Ira- In that it furnishes an a lithe- lithe ius- ius of ot the feasibility of or securing a general International game law for the protection of or other mammals of ot the sea the preservation of or which la Is I of Im- Im Im to nil nl the nations of ot the worl world Legislation Necessary The attention of ot Congress I 4 dally daily called caled to the necessity for gm- gm g caly laUon latton on the part parl of ot tho the United S Static for the tho purpose of ot fulfilling the tho gallons assumed under this convention convention conver conven conven- tion o to which the Senate gave o ga Its ad advIce advice advice ad- ad vice ton and consent on tho day of ot July last Protection of Industrial Property Union The conference of ot the International Union for the Protection of ot Industrial Property which under the authority of ot I Congress convened at Washington on on onIa May Congress 16 1911 closed ClOsel Its labors on June Ia cosed Is 2 2 1011 1 by bv 1911 the signature of ot three acts act as follows 1 A convention revising revisinG the Paris con convention en ton of ot March 20 1883 for the protection of ot industrial property a as al modified by the additional act signed 14 at Brussels on December 1900 2 An arrangement to replace t the arrangement signed d at Madrid on on April 14 14 1 1891 for the International registration tion of ot trademarks and the additional act ton with regard thereto sl signed ed at Brussels Brus- Brus J sels on December 14 1 1900 ad and t I the tho 3 An arrangement to replace arrangement signed at Madrid on April Apri 1891 to the repression of 14 H. relating false Indication of or production of o mer- mer C han dIsc j of ot J Tho The United States IB is a signatory the first convention only anti and thIs will willbe wil fl submitted to the Senate bo be promptly i International I Opium Commission transmitted to In a a. special message 3 of January T the the tho Congress on In tho the recommendations Tee rec 1911 In which I concurred rec- rec IVl made by th the secretary J i regard male to certain needful mn of state in of ot our in In In- le legislation for Cor or tho iio control foreign traffic in opium and and other menacing menacing s dru drugs I 1 Q quoted message e Ol of from my annual my that the tho 7 7 iani HI lii which I announced k S opium S Fett results o ot of the tho Shanghai in n February February at commission held of f tile the ary 1009 at the thie bof before laid United States had been the report J of or that government go showed that d that China wag wa commission shW And admirable ad- ad m making remarkable pro progress ress eradication toward tho the mirable efforts effort mirble Inte Interested the tho that of the evil ovil opium 1 0 the their r governments had not permitted their 4 commercial Interests to P prevent this reform and as nR asa a aa operation co-operation co in Investigations of ot a result of or collateral In thIs country i I the tho opium that the recommended el of opium In the tho United sale salo and use con con- rigorously State StateN should be more by legislation In continua continuation that time and Prior to ment ot of tills this gov tion tile the policy ton or of or of the L- L to secure the co 1 States pr pr- pr nations t the United r posed an in International opium lull full powers for tor the purpose ence with wih ful with tile the Corco of international or of clothing wih adopted by bythe bytho law tile the commission tOe to- the tho essential other cthel with their cordIal The other powers or of this goY goY- ov- ov responded to the tile 1 proposal to to lie he able anti and I am glad Iad of or an all me the the announce assembled eH in conference ni at ut The powers month this tins of oC Ha hague on the tile first on cX the tho 01 of e Since the passage states twenty elusion net act more than their modify p I to ha have been animated them In III aCcord aC- aC pharmacy Jaws laws and bring r that act thus cord cort wih with tile the spirit of oC J the e Jn- Jn t In-t measure stamping stamping out to a and other othera tra tate traffic In opium J I But nut habit forming drugs drug the he Jno J- J have ed th tile the Con re s ha e ur urged on Oil for iu federal ago no of ot certain measures and ana foreign control of ot tile tho Interstate has traffic in these drugs no O of acu the fact yet ot been taken In vieW at St The Theto la HaK e eo that there thero Is now sitting which h ha to o Important a conference nce laws O Othe Of under review tho the pal la 8 the different nations for or the theof allied of and other a ot their opium will d deal al which conference a or ot we weevils these le with wih the most e eSsential t to me evils enns I it lj seems sceniC mt tal take tako should o that the Congress diate ate action on the tile called alreadY alread lation laton to whIch I 1 have ha I r message attention by a special Important con The four signed at the fourth Pan l Continued d on Se en |