Report of the Annual Meeting (Volume 6-10) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TEbiro Session. Thursday Morning, June 2, 1904. The proceedings of this session consisted of addresses and remarks by Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Professor John Bassett Moore, Columbia University, New York; Baron Kentaro Kaneko, Tokio, Japan; Rev. Philip S. Moxom, D.D., Springfield, Mass.; Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn.; Hon. John V. L. Findlay, Baltimore, Md.; John B. Henderson, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Hon. Frederick W. Seward, Montrose-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Edwin D. Mead of Boston; and Prof. C. P. Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary, New York. The President called the Conference to order at 10 o'clock and introduced Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the Com missioners of the District of Columbia, to speak on the special sub ject of arbitration treaties with England and other countries. TREATIES OF ARBITRATION WITH GREAT BRITA1I AND OTHER COUNTRIES. ADDRESS OF HON. H. B. F. MACFARLAND. Mr. President: In view of the fact that this subject has alreac bee.- traversed by almost every speaker, I might take for my text tl words of the great Apostle of Arbitration, "There has been so mu said, and on the whole so well said, that I need not further occu the time." But I know, from my experience last year, at once t inexhaustible patience of the Mohonk Lake Conference and its i satiable desire for speech-making. We come here by common cc sent for a riot of rhetoric and an orgy of oratory. Laughter. am reminded of a song which I saw in a window of an ice ere; saloon in Washington: "He bought our ice cream for his darling, And she ate, and ate, and ate. Till at last her heart (he gave him, To make room for another plate." Laughter. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith was telling us at a dinner in Washi...