justice, and who, through their professional occupation, may contribute largely to the formation of public opinion and who often will be vested with the highest offices in the State and nation, this Conference earnestly requests all law schools which now offer no instruction in international law to add to their curriculum a thorough course in that subject. Resolved further, That a copy of this resolution be sent to all law schools in the United States. RESOLUTION No. 10 Resolved, That the Conference hereby calls the attention of the State bar examiners and of the bodies whose duty it is to prescribe the subjects of examination, to the importance of requiring some knowledge of the elements of international law in examinations for admission to the bar, and urges them to make international law one of the prescribed subjects. RESOLUTION No. 11 Resolved, That the Conference hereby requests the American Bar Association to take appropriate action toward including international law among the subjects taught in law schools and required for admission to the bar. RESOLUTION No. 12 Resolved, That the Conference hereby adopts the following recommendations: (a) That it is desirable, upon the initiative of institutions where instruction in international law is lacking, to take steps toward providing such instruction by visiting professors or lecturers, this instruction to be given in courses, and not in single lectures, upon substantive principles, not upon popular questions of momentary interest, and in a scientific spirit, not in the interest of any propaganda. (b) That members of the American Society of International Law, qualified by professional training, be invited by the Executive Council or the Executive Committee of the Society to give such courses, and that provision be made, through the establishment of lectureships or otherwise, to bear the necessary expenses of the undertaking; (c) That the Standing Committee on the Study and Teaching of International Law and Related Subjects of the American Society of International Law, the appointment of which was recommended in Resolution No. 1, be requested to ascertain what institutions are in need of additional instruction in international law and endeavor to find means of affording such assistance as may be necessary to the teaching staff of the said institutions or of supplying this additional instruction by lecturers chosen by the said Committee and approved by the Executive Council or Executive Committee. (d) That steps be taken to bring to the attention of every college at present not offering instruction in international law the importance of this subject and the readiness of the American Society of International Law, through its Standing Committee on the Study and Teaching of International Law and Related Subjects, to coöperate with such institutions in introducing or stimulating instruction. RESOLUTION No. 13 Resolved, That this Conference hereby requests and recommends that universities having summer schools offer summer courses in international law. Resolved further, That the American Society of International Law, through its Standing Committee on the Study and Teaching of International Law and Related Subjects, is hereby requested to endeavor to stimulate a demand for courses in international law in summer schools. RESOLUTION No. 14 Resolved, That the Conference recommends the establishment and encouragement in collegiate institutions of specialized courses in preparation for the diplomatic and consular services. RESOLUTION No. 15 Resolved, That the Conference recommends that the study of international law be required in specialized courses in preparation for business. RESOLUTION No. 16 Resolved, That a Committee of Revision, consisting of ten members, of which Mr. James Brown Scott shall be chairman ex officio, be appointed by the Chair for the revision in matters of form of the various resolutions and recommendations made to this Conference by the different committees and subcommittees and adopted by it, the said Committee of Revision to send a copy of the said resolutions and recommendations to every law school, college and university in the United States and to the American Society of International Law, through its Executive Council or Executive Committee, for such action as will serve to effectuate the recommendations of the Conference. The following members were, in accordance with Resolution No. 16, appointed on the Committee of Revision, which prepared the resolutions in the form above given: Robert Bacon, George H. Blakeslee, Philip Brown, James F. Colby, Edward C. Eliot, John W. Foster, William I. Hull, John D. Lawson, William R. Manning, Elihu Root. Space will not permit at this time of any comment upon the significance and importance of the action taken by the conference. The bare facts have been recorded for the readers of the Journal, who will be informed through these columns of subsequent lines of action which may be developed from this conference, which may turn out to be an epochmaking step in fostering the study and teaching of international law. The business meeting of the Society was held on Saturday morning, April 25th, immediately after the adjournment of the conference of teachers of international law. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: HON. RICHARD BARTHOLDT, Mis- GEN. GEORGE B. DAVIS, Dis souri PROF. CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, District of Columbia REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. STOCK- trict of Columbia HON. A. J. MONTAGUE, Vir ginia CHARLES B. PROF. THEODORE S. WOOLSEY, Member of the Executive Council to serve until 1916, in place of the late Senator Bacon HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE, Massachusetts As an honorary member of the Society, the standing committee recommended, and the Society elected, Signor Pasquale Fiore, Senator of Italy, member of its Council on Diplomatic Affairs, member of the Institute of International Law, Professor of International Law in the University of Naples. At the meeting of the Executive Council, which took place immediately upon the adjournment of the Society, the following additional officers and committees were chosen: Chairman of the Executive Council, HON. JOHN W. FOSTER Executive Committee HON. ELIHU ROOT HON. GEORGE GRAY HON. ROBERT LANSING HON. JOHN BASSETT MOORE JACKSON H. RALSTON, Esq. PROF. GEORGE G. WILSON Ex-Officio HON. JOHN W. FOSTER, Chairman JAMES BROWN SCOTT, ESQ., Recording Secretary CHARLES HENRY BUTLER, Esq., Corresponding Secretary Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Editor-in-Chief GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY ROBERT LANSING CHANDLER P. ANDERSON CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY AMOS S. HERSHEY CHARLES CHENEY HYDE THEODORE S. WOOLSEY JOHN BASSETT MOORE GEORGE A. FINCH, Secretary of the Board of Editors and Business Manager of the Journal Committees Standing Committee on Selection of Honorary Members: George G. Wilson, Chairman; Jackson H. Ralston, Theodore S. Woolsey. Standing Committee on Increase of Membership: James Brown Scott, Chairman; Charles Cheney Hyde, John H. Latané, Jesse S. Reeves, Theodore S. Woolsey. Auditing Committee: Clement L. Bouvé, Jackson H. Ralston. Committee on Codification: Elihu Root, Chairman, ex-officio; Chandler P. Anderson, Charles Henry Butler, Lawrence B. Evans, Charles Noble Gregory, Robert Lansing, Paul S. Reinsch, Leo S. Rowe, James Brown Scott, George G. Wilson. Committee on Publication of Proceedings: George A. Finch, Otis T. Cartwright. Committee on Ninth Annual Meeting: James Brown Scott, Chairman; Philip Brown, James W. Garner, Robert Lansing, Walter S. Penfield, Jackson H. Ralston, Eugene Wambaugh. The annual meeting closed as usual with a banquet on Saturday evening, April 25th. Mr. Root presided as toastmaster and the other speakers of the evening were the honorable William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, the Honorable F. C. Stevens, Member of Congress from Minnesota, and Mr. Archibald C. Coolidge, recently exchange professor in Germany of Harvard University. While the members of the Society who attended the banquet expectantly awaited the remarks of the Secretary of State, in view of the critical state of the relations between the United States and Mexico, growing out of the occupation of Vera Cruz a few days previously by the naval forces of the United States, he took them completely by surprise by announcing and incorporating in his remarks the text of the exchange of notes, completed just before he entered the banquet hall, between the United States and the representatives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, offering and accepting the mediation of the three latter countries in an endeavor to prevent further armed conflict between the United States and Mexico. The plan adopted this year of dividing the meeting between sessions devoted exclusively to professional and scientific discussions and others devoted to the presentation of the subjects in a way to appeal to a more popular audience seems to have worked exceptionally well, as the meetings were better attended than any since the Society's existence. The plan is likely to be followed and perhaps improved upon for the future meetings of the Society. THE LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION The twentieth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration was held in the last week of May and, as usual, was attended by a large and influential body of men and women interested in the peaceful settlement of international disputes and the means by which such settlement may be advanced. The conference had the great advantage of having as chairman, Mr. John Bassett Moore, late counselor for the Department of State, and in a careful, thoughtful and valuable address he showed that our government had repeatedly submitted disputes to arbitration, which would be excluded |