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All Is Ready tor Peace Conference Here Today■ t - - - — American Society for Judicial Settlement of Interna-tional Disputes To Be Featured by Presence of Notables, Among Them President Taft.The meeting of the national conference of the American Society for Judicial Settlement of Internationol Disputes, which convenes in the city tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the Mueic hall, will bring together an assemblage of exceptionally distinguished speakers on. this subject of universal interest and importance. The dominant note of the gathering will be the. proposed arbitration treaties with England arid Franc®.♦ President Taft, #hlt; is the honbrary president of the society, will deliver an -address at the opening session. Among other notables wno will deliver addresses will be Dr. Jacob Gould Sfchurman, president of Cornell university.A banquet will be tendered the visiting members of the conference, Wednesday evening, at the Business Men’s club, at which an^addrese will be delivered by Philander C. Knox, secretary of state, taking as his subject, The Treaties I Have Framed. John Temple Graves of The New York American and Samuel J-Elder of Boston, Mass., will also deliver addresses.Among the various men who are scheduled to take active interest in the conference, and a number of which are on the programme, are. seventeen presidents and professors of sixteen leading universities,representing ten different states. It was at the last meeting of the national conference of the American society that President Taft made his notable address in favor of an all-inclusive treaty.-.The proceedings of the last meeting of the society were printed in book; form and distributed to all the chancellories of the world and 1,000 to leading men interested in the problems of international disputes in Great Britain. Several thousand cc.pies are also being translated Into German, French and Spanish. /.‘..IJohn Hoys Hammond will preside at the opening session of the meeting, Dr; James Brown Scott of Washington. D. C.f former president of the society,, at the second, and Theodore Marburg of Baltimore, Md., at the third session. Senator Foraker will act as toastmaster at the banquet. ' - -Secretary Tunstall Smith of Baltimore arrived in the city.the latter part of last week and has been busy with the arrangements for the occasion, and states that the gathering in Cincinnati will be one of the most successful of v its entire history; J. G. Schmidlapp, treasurer or the society, and W. F. Robertson were chiefly instrumental in bringing the convention to this dty.With the exception of the: opening session *tf thb jtociety at Mueic hail tomorrow afternoon all of the sessions wilt- be held-at Odebn hall. : ------
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1911
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