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other drugs, signed at The Hague, January 23, 1912, and July 9, 1913, ratifications of which were deposited at The Hague by the United States, December 10, 1913.

French and English Texts, U. S. Treaty Series No. 612. March 4. United States. The President signed the "Seamen's Bill," said to conflict with treaties with most maritime nations. March 4. Peru-United States. Ratifications exchanged of the treaty for the advancement of peace. Signed July 14, 1914. Spanish and English Texts, U. S. Treaty Series No.

613.

March 8. Great Britain -Prize Court. Held in case of 1000 tons copper sent from United States to Gothenburg, Sweden, seized by British Government, that the copper being for the neutral government of Sweden cannot be requisitioned by a belligerent.

New York Times, March 9, 1915.

New York Sun, March 9, 1915.

March 9. Paraguay-United States. Ratifications exchanged of treaty for the advancement of peace. Signed August 29,

1914.

Spanish and English Texts, U. S. Treaty Series No. 614.

March 10. Germany-United States. The German cruiser Eitel Friedrich came into Newport News, Va., for supplies and repairs. She brought the crews of British, French and Russian ships sunk by her, also the crew of the American ship William P. Frye which she sunk January 28 with her cargo of grain. The Eitel Friedrich was interned April 7 and on April 8 the German Government agreed to indemnify the owners of the Frye.

New York Times, March 11, 1915.

New York Times, April 8-9, 1915.

March 11. European War-Great Britain. Additional list of contraband.

London Gazette Nos. 29097, 29098.

March 11. Great Britain. Order in Council declaring a blockade against Germany in retaliation for the German declaration of a blockade of the waters around the British Islands. London Gazette No. 29102.

March 16. European War. The German Prize Court at Hamburg rejects a claim for damages for loss of neutral goods sunk with a British ship.

New York Times, March 17, 1915.

March 18. European War. Texts of notes of the United States to France, Great Britain and Germany, with replies, respecting establishment of war zones, blockades, German Admiralty order of February 4 and British Order in Council published March 15.

New York Times, March 18, 1915.

March 19. Italy-United States. Ratifications exchanged of treaty for advancement of peace. Signed May 5, 1914.

Italian and English Texts, U. S. Treaty Series No. 615. March 31. Great Britain. In contending in the prize court in favor of requisitioning a cargo of foodstuffs on the American steamer Wilhelmina, Solicitor for the Crown introduced a hitherto unpublished Order in Council providing that the Crown might requisition any neutral ship. This changes Rule 28, March 9; the prize court had held copper bound to Sweden for the Swedish Government could not be requisitioned and used prior to condemnation.

New York Times, April 13.

New York Herald, April 1.

April 4. Germany-United States. The German Ambassador handed a note to the Department of State relating to the neutrality of the United States.

New York Times, April 10.

April 21. Germany-United States. The United States Government answered the note of the German Ambassador of April 4.

Text of reply, New York Times, April 22.

April 28. United States-Germany. The United States sent a note to Germany accepting the offer to pay for the William Frye on the ground of the violation of the Treaty of 1828 only.

New York Times, April 29-30.

May 1. European War. The German Embassy published in the American newspapers a warning to Americans not to travel in English vessels.

May 7. European War. The Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed off Kinsale, Ireland, at 2 P. M., by a German submarine without summons and sank with great loss of life. One hundred and fifteen Americans perished.

May 14. European War. The United States Government gave out the text of a note to the German Government through the American Ambassador in Berlin stating the position of the United States as to the sinking of the Lusitania and denying the right of a belligerent to sink merchant vessels without warning and without putting in safety crew and passengers.

Text, New York Times, Herald, Sun, May 14, 1915. May 22. The Pan-American Financial Congress. The PanAmerican Financial Congress met at Washington, D. C. It took steps to promote facilities for transportation and for uniformity of laws among the nations represented. May 24. European War-United States. Neutrality proclamation issued covering Italy's entry into the European War.

New York Times, May 26, 1915.

May 28. European War. Note sent to Germany on the subject of the Cushing and Gulflight. Answer received from Germany, June 4.

New York Times, June 5.

New York Herald, June 5.

May 31. European War. The German Government replied to the note of the United States explaining attacks on the American steamers Cushing and Gulflight saying that "the German Government has no intention of submitting neutral ships in the war zone, which are guilty of no hostile acts, to attacks by a submarine, or submarines or aviators." It intimates regret and indemnification in case of mistake where the injured ship was not in fault. It suggests reference to the International Commission of Inquiry as provided by The Hague agreement, if necessary. As to the sinking of the Lusitania, it suggests that she was an auxiliary British cruiser, carrying guns, that the British Admiralty had instructed British merchantmen to attack submarines by ramming and offered prizes therefor and that the Lusitania could not be therefore recognized as "undefended." That

she further carried Canadian troops and war material. That the German Government was therefore justified in attacking her. That her sudden sinking is attributed to the explosion of the ammunition on board caused by a torpedo. It does not make this a final answer.

June 2. Mexico. The President communicated to the leaders of all Mexican factions, notice that unless they compose the internal disorders of Mexico and secure order some other means will be found by the United States.

Washington Post, June 2, 1915.

June 4. Germany-United States. Germany expressed regret at the torpedoing of the American vessel Gulflight, said she was mistaken for a belligerent and promised full compensation, also expressed regret at the attack on the Cushing and requested further facts.

Your committee is compelled to file its report at this date, though incidents of international significance are of daily occur

rence.

They express the hope that the rules of international law, founded as they are on the obligations of humanity and of justice, may recover and reassert their beneficent authority.

The violence of the present almost world-wide war has tended to stifle but cannot abolish principles so deeply planted in human necessity. They earnestly hope that the efforts of the Government of the United States addressed, to the maintenance of neutral rights and of international humanity and justice, may help to limit the severities of war, which have so notably increased, and tend to restore peace to the nations whose struggle afflicts the world.

CHAS. NOBLE GREGORY, Chairman,

JAMES BROWN SCOTT,

June 8, 1915.

THEODORE S. WOOLSEY,

CHARLES CHENEY HYDE,

MATHEW GERING,

REPORT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE LAW.

To the American Bar Association:

At the annual meeting of 1913, the Association directed the Committee on Insurance Law to co-operate with the Senate and House Committees of Congress on the District of Columbia, in the preparation of a so-called model insurance code for the District of Columbia. This action was with the design that such a code, after its approval by the Association, might be enacted into law by the Congress and adopted by the several states.

Since the 1913 meeting of the Association, this committee has been at work on the proposed code. After several meetings and much discussion, a tentative draft of a proposed law was printed and widely circulated among insurance lawyers and officials, but the committee reported at the 1914 meeting of the Association that it was not ready to report the code to the Association.

The Association at the 1914 meeting instructed this committee to continue the work of preparing the proposed code, and to report it, when completed, to the Association and to the Senate and House Committees on the District of Columbia.

During the last year the committee has devoted considerable time in attempting to perfect the code. At the meeting of the committee in May, amendments and modifications were approved. The committee is now considering further changes and an amended draft of the code will soon be prepared, printed and distributed. The committee desires more time for further criticisms and suggestions. The nature and comprehensive scope of the code require much time for deliberation over its many provisions.

The committee, therefore, is not ready to report a bill, and we recommend that this committee be authorized to continue the work of preparing the proposed model code for the regulation of insurance in the District of Columbia, and instructed to report

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