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 _l The Legal World A committee of the managers of the casualty departments of all the various sub sidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation was at work for eighteen months seeking to devise some satisfactory plan of relief, regardless of legal liability. The pres ent plan, which was ﬁrst announced April 16, is the result.

International Law and Politics Prof. George Grafton Wilson of Brown University, who was one of this country's two representatives at the international conference on maritime law held in London early in 1909, has been honored by election to associate membership in the Institut de Droit Inter national.

and Prof. Raleigh C. Minor considered the relative citizenship of persons and tions. Prof. Theodore S. Woolse and Art ur' Kuhn discussed the eﬂect of un riendly acts. Prof. S. M. ofMacvane pa r on the ques tion dornicil offered rights, a andpeProf. John H. Latane discussed the same issue. Other im nt pa rs were read. At the White ouse the elegates were addressed by Presi dent Taft, who urged the improtance of legis lation for the federal protection of aliens under treaty provisions, and who also indorsed Senator Root's lea for a tribunal that would allow the peace ul settlement of international disputes. Several of the more important govern ments are now known to have approved Secretary

By Sproclamation of the President issued April, the reci beneﬁts of the Copy right Act of 1909 were extended to the works of citizens of the following countries which have granted to citizens of the United States the beneﬁt of copyright on substantially the same basis as their own citizens: Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark,

France, Germany, Great Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and possessions, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Andrew Carne 'e, presiding at the annual meeting of the eace Society of the City of New York, held on April 16, attributed greater importance to arbitration than to disarma ment as a means of ending all wars. He de clared that President Taft had laced himself in the forefront of the friends 0 cc by his declaration that all nations shoul be re uired to submit every possible question to ar 'tra tion, not even excepting questions of vital interest and national honor. Mr. Carnegie was re-elected president of the Society. The new marble palace of the International Bureau of American Republics donated by Andrew Carnegie,'was dedicated at Washing‘ ton April 26 in the name of universal peace. President Taft joined with Andrew Carnegie, Secretary of State Knox, Senator Root and Senor De La Barra, the Mexican ambassador, the latter as representative of the Latin American republics, in prophecies of peace among the twenty-one American republics. All the speakers ledged themselves always to strive to bring a t that happy state. Mr. Carne 'e ex ssed the hope t at some day Cana a, wit the consent of Great Britian, would join the family of peaceful American republics.

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identic note to the powers recentl, that the Court of Arbitral Justice provide for at the second Hague Conference be made a perma nent tribunal. While the proposition was

unfavorably received by Great Britain, owing doubtless partly to the unsettled condition of the entire subject of international arbitra tion pending the approval of the conclusions reached by the International Maritime Con ference held at London a year ago, France and Japan are known to approve of the plan, and unoﬂicial reports ma it evident that other nations have expressed a similar atti tiude. The idea ori 'nated with Senator Root, and was ﬁrst a vanced at the London Conference but was withdrawn for the reason that it could better be taken u through diplomatic channels. Even thoug the plan may meet with some opposition, it is believed that if the more important wers agree to it the proportion may be so arge as to justify the expectation that the court may possibly be established before the next conference meets in 1915.

The American ‘Philosophical Society’: ‘Prize 'Compelition The announcement is made by the American Philoso hical Society of Philadelphia that the Henry. Phillips prize will be awarded during the year 1912. The subgect upon which essays are to be furnished y com titors is: "The Treat —Making Power of t e United States and t e Methods of its Enforcement as Affecting the Police Powers of the States." The essays shall contain not more than one hundred thousand words, excluding notes,

The fourth annual meeting of the American Society of International Law was held in

and must be in the ssession of the Society before Jan. 1, 1912. e prize for the crowned essay will be $2,000. Essays may be written in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, or Latin, but if in any language exce t English must be accompanied by an Engli translation. No treatise or essay is to be entitled to compete for the prize that has been alread published

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