INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE.

SPEECH BY THE BRITISH PREMIER.

THE PRINCIPLE OF ARBITRATION. ■Received July 25, 7.40 a.m. LONDON, July 2i. The International Parliamentary Conference is being held in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Six members of the Duma received an impressive welcome, the whole conference rising and cheering enthusiastically. Sir Henry . Campbell Bannerman read a stirring address in French, welcoming the conference in the name of the British Government and of the King. The Government hoped that the deliberations would promote a closer understanding between the nations. Already thirty eight arbitration agreements had been con oluded between the different Powers —ten on behalf of Britain. In welcoming the members of the Duma, Sir Henry Campboll Bannerman declined to comment on ttie dissolution except to say: "New institutions often have a stormy youtti. The Duma will revive in one form or other. We can say with all fliouerity: 'The Duma i 3 dead. Long live the Dams!' " (Load cheers). He hoped the nations attending The Hague Conference would go like the British representatives pledged to diminish the charges -in respect to armamente, and he eulogised the Czar as the convenor of The Hague Conference. The conference resolved that it would be advantageous to give The Hague Conference a more permanent influence in the work- of pacifioation. Mr W. J. Bryan proposed that; a model treaty of arbitration should provide for investigation by an impartial international tribunal before- war in all cases, the disputants reserving the right to act ,dent!y afterwards. ' /

MODEL ARBITRATION TREATY,

MR BRYAN'S MOTION ADOPTED.

Reueived July 25, 3.H5 p.m; LONDON, July 25.

Mr W. J. Bryan delivered an eloquent appeal to the Parliamentary Oungress on his resolution dealing with a model arbitration treaty. The resolution was ultimately adopted.