The daily gazette., 1878-06-14
FIFTH EDITION.
THE CONGRESS.
FIRST DAYS SITTING OF THE
GREAT COUNCIL OF THE
POWERS.
Bismarck Chosen President
How the PlenipOtentiarie
Were Placed.

VERY LITTLE WORK DoNK-THE POLICY
OF BISMARCK IN FAVOR A UNI
vRRALs PEACE.
BERLIN, Jnne 13, 1878.
The first setting of the Congress was
held this afternoon in the Radziwill
Palace. The streets leading to the palace
We're crowded with spectators anxious 10
see the diplomatists ~ they arrived Four
mounted police agents kent the ap-
proaches TO the great building clear.
Lord Beaconsfieh arrived last, at three
minutes before two O'Clock.
POPULARITY OF BEAooNsFIELD.
There was a great crowd of people at
the entrance of the Hotel Kaiserhoff to
see the Earl of Beaconsfield set out for
the palace. When he appeared at the
hotel and when he alghted from his car
riage at the palace he was respectfully
saluted by the crowd
Prince Bismarck, in the Uniform of his
rank in the German Army, surrounded
by Prince Hohenlohe, Herr Rado witz,
Count Won Bulow and Humbert Bis
marck, received the plenipotentiaries in
the salon which precedes the Hall of the
Congress. An usher announced the
plenipotentiaries by their diplomatic
titles and not by their names
AT five minutes past two Humbert Bis
marck opened the folding doors Of the
hall of the Congress. Prince Bismarck,
as President, passed in first When the
twenty-tour pleni potentiaries and secre-
taries had entered the apartment the
door was closed. They were then assign
cd seats. The table occupies three sides
OF quadrangle.
Prince Bismarck took his place at the
middle of the exterior of the principal
table, and the plenipotentlaries were
then seated alternately to the right and
to the left OF the Prince in the order of
their countries name in French. The
order of precedence became therefore,
Allemage, Autriche, France, Grande,
Bretagne, ltalie, Russie ct Turquie. Thus
We're placed to the right Autriche,
Grande Bretagne, Russit; to the left
France, ltalie, Tirquie. The other re-
presentatives of Germany occupied the
side ofthe principal table opposite Prince
Bismarck.
The presidency was conferred upon
Prince Bismarck at the suggestion OF
Count AndrasSy, who advocated this
selection not simply on the ground OF
traditional custom, but for the eminent
services which Bismarck was on all sides
acknowledged to have rendered. Count
Andrassy also expressed the warmest
hopes for the recovery of the revered
German Emperor.
BISMARCK TO PRESIDE.
Prince Bismarck was then, by unani.
nous conset, chosen permanent Presi.
dent ofthe Congress. 1t was then decd.
ded to admit to the hall of the Congress
the counsellors of the Russian Legation
in Berlin, NJ NJ. Arapetf, Kotzebue and
Boutenoff; the counsellors of the Aus.
trian Legation, NJ. Won Mayr, and Baron
Passet, and the counsellor of the British
Legation, Captain Fitz George. The
Congress then adjourned to Monday
| next.
BRIEF SITTING.
| The first sitting only lasted an hour and
half Lord Beaconstield spoke in Eng
lish, and Prince Bismarck replied in the
same tongue.
| BIsMARcK's PLAN CARRIED OUT.
So far as the tirst days work goes
Prince Bismarck's plan has been carried
out to She letter. His programme for
the sessions was to have the first sessien
devoted merely to the formal veitication
OF the Powers and the formation OF
bureaux. He desired to have the second
sitting held on M ouday in order to give
time for the pleni potentiaries to OF change
| views so that discussion of the gIeal
! question may begin on clear bases.