OF THE

TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

Lake MOHONK CONFERENCE

ON

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

1906

REPORTED BY Miss Lilian D. POWERS

PUBLISHED BY THE
LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

TWELFTH ANNUAL LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE
ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

MAY 30-JUNE 1, 1906.

President: Hon. John W. Foster, Washington, D. C.
Secretary to the Conference: Clinton Rogers WOODRUFF, Philadelphia,

Pa.
Permanent Corresponding Secretary: H. C. PHILLIPS, Mohonk Lake,

N. Y.
Treasurer: ALEXANDER C. Wood, Camden, N. J.
Auditors: Hon. ALDEN CHESTER, Albany, N. Y.; Hon. WillIAM J.

COOMBS, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Business Committee: Hon. John H. STINESS, Providence, R. I., Chair-

man; DR. LYMAN ABBOTT, New York, N. Y.; Hon. SAMUEL J. Bar-
ROWS, New York, N. Y.; Hon. Richard BARTHOLDT, St. Louis, Mo.;
Hon. SAMUEL B. CAPEN, Boston, Mass.; Hon. WILLIAM R. CASTLE,
Honolulu, Hawaii; Hon. Charles B. Elliott, Minneapolis, Minn.;
DR. DANIEL C. GILMAN, Baltimore, Md.; Hon. David P. JONES,
Minneapolis, Minn.; Hon. Joseph B. MOORE, Lansing, Mich.; Hon.
ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Boston, Mass.; Hon. WILLIAM L. PENFIELD,
Washington, D. C.; CHARLES M. PEPPER, Washington, D. C.; Dan-
IEL SMILEY, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; Hon. Oscar S. STRAUS, New
York, N. Y.; DR. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, Boston, Mass.; JAMES
Wood, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.; CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, Philadelphia,

Pa.
Publication Committee: DR. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, Boston, Mass.,

Chairman; H. C. PHILLIPS, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; DANIEL SMILEY,

Mohonk Lake, N. Y.
Press Committee: ALBERT E. Hoyt, Albany, N. Y., Chairman; FRANK C.

BRAY, Chicago, Ill. ; Rev. Dr. John B. Devins, New York, N. Y.;
J. L. HARBOUR, Dorchester, Mass.; H. A. UNDERWOOD, Boston,

Mass.; EDWARD J. WHEELER, New York, N. Y.
Finance Committee: WARNER VAN NORDEN, New York, N. Y., Chair-

man; William P. BANCROFT, Wilmington, Del.; William Chris-
TIE HERRON, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. EDWARD SIMMONS, New York, N.
Y.; HENRY VAN KLEECK, Denver, Colorado.

PREFACE.

The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration was held in the parlor of the Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., May 30 to June 1, 1906. About three hundred members were in attendance as the invited guests of Mr. Albert K. Smiley. There were six sessions of the Conference. This Report contains the stenographic account of the proceedings, which consisted of papers, addresses and discussions of the present status of international arbitration, of the education of public opinion, of work in colleges and universities and among business men, of the creation of an international congress, etc.

One copy of this Report is sent to each member of the Conference. Applications for other copies should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary of the Conference.