. Review of reviews and world's work. HON. WILLIAM I. BlCHANAN. (Chairman of the United States delegation.) a sufficient number of republics, including theUnited States. Threading their way through alabyrinth of complications, among which wasthe ambitious plan of an international claimstribunal, and also, in disguised form, the accept-ance of the Calvo contention, the delegatesfinally came into daylight and blazed a paththrough the jungle of conflicting principles,national distrusts, and selfish demands. D. Casasiis, the Mexican ambassador,in an address before the American Academy o


. Review of reviews and world's work. HON. WILLIAM I. BlCHANAN. (Chairman of the United States delegation.) a sufficient number of republics, including theUnited States. Threading their way through alabyrinth of complications, among which wasthe ambitious plan of an international claimstribunal, and also, in disguised form, the accept-ance of the Calvo contention, the delegatesfinally came into daylight and blazed a paththrough the jungle of conflicting principles,national distrusts, and selfish demands. D. Casasiis, the Mexican ambassador,in an address before the American Academy ofPolitical and Social Science, declared that this. HON. joaquIn d. casasus. (Mexican ambassador to the United States and chairmanof the Committee on Programme of tlie conference.) treaty of pecuniary claims alone would perpetu-ate the name of the Mexican conference in his-tory, and the judgment of jurists and publicistsaffirms this opinion. The Rio conference with-out doubt will recommend the extension of thetreaty, and in doing so will find many of itsdifficulties simplified. The topics relating to arbitration, the codifica-tion of public and private law, naturalization, andthe like, are too broad for specific treatment in thisarticle, but it may be observed that the Mexicanconference covered very fully the possibilitiesoC arl)itration and their ap[)lication throughthe Hague tribunal. The heart of the wholequestion as it appears to the weaker reimblics isto secure, not acquiescence in the abstract prin-ciple, l)ut tlie translation into a positive policyof the doctrine that a weaker nation should havean e({ual right of arbitration wit


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