Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
FOR A PEACE
TRIBUNAL
Sir Julian PauncefOte Has a
Proposition. I.
SPRUNG AS A SURPRISE
There Is General Acceptance Of the
Idea Of Forming a Permanent
Court of Arbitration

London, May 27.-The correspondent
| of the Daily Telegraph at The Hague
| says: Peace prospects touched hlgh
water mark today when the conference
! found itself face to face with arbitration
in a practicable and acceptable form and
| as a permanent international achieve
ment. This honor is mainly due to Sir
Julian Pauncefote. When the members
of the arbitration section had finished
reading the Russian proposals on this
subject Sir Julian expressed his COM
| plete approval of them, but said it would
| be a great pity if the conference failed to
| embody the principle of arbitration in
! some permanent stage.
Il now beg to propose" he said, 1.-THE
| formal establishment of a permanent ar
| bitration tribunal, empowered to deal
with all matters in dispute capable or
reference to the judgment Of an umpire.
| do not intend to trouble YOU with de-
tails as to its mechanism today. nor
until you accept the principle of my pro-
posal. Therefore, 1 ask you to accept the
principle now
Sir Julian Pauncefote. having pre-
! scented his proposal, we are prepared TO
| supplement- and to complete the printed
suggestions just distributed by others,
| dealing with a permanent arbitration
board"
Thereupon the Russian president Of the
conference drew a paper from his pocket
! and laid it upon the table then and there.
! The paper contained the foundation of a
permanent tribunal, suggesting the sub
stitution of a new clause and referring
to an appendix not yet drawn up. Inc
amazed delegates crowded around Sir
Julian, congratulating him upon having
played the winning card, which had so
quickly precipitated the Russian alter
native scheme. Some stood aghast as
the matter was not contemplated in their
instructions. Finally it was decided to
refer the matter to a subcommittee.
The Americans, it is believed, are elab-
Grating an organic statute for the erec-
ton of a permanent tribunal, which will
probably be laid before the conference,
and be supported by the other delegates,
were the principles embodied in Sir
Julian's resolution accepted.
The Hague, May 2s.-1t can now be
stated with a degree Of confidence that
the delegates to the peace conference are
gradually arriving at the belief that it's
outcome will be very much what Andrew
D. White, United States ambassador at
Berlin and head of the American delega-
ton here, forecast to the correspondent
Of the Associated Press IN the interview
abled to the United States last Monday.
So far as ornaments are concerned, the
utmost that is expected to accomplish IS
some slight recommendations to the ov-
ernments participating. The various
committees have now settled to work,
and the delegates have begun a formal
exchange of views. It was decided today
to appoint committees to receive all sug-
gestions, proposals n petitions emanat-
ing from outsiders, but so far as Is yet
ascertainable these will be ~pigeon-holed
| without consideration unless they come
within the view of the questions enumer-
ated in the circular of Count Muravieff,
the Russian minister of foreign affairs,
in outlining the subjects for considera-
ton.
The correspondent of the Daily News
ait The Hague refers to the proposal of
an arbitration board as IAN American
project, which NJ. de Staal was unable to
see." Out of loyalty to the car he de-
sires to steal a march on America by
getting a start for the Russian project.
The disarmament committee met this
morning and M. Bernaert, chief of the
Belgian delegation, who presided, set
forth the points submitted for considera-
ton. The two sections Immediately di-
vided and proceeded to a discussion OF
the questions of firearms and explosives
which continued till the hour for ad-
journment.
The arbitration committee met this
afternoon under the presidency of the
chief of the French delegates, lie Bour.
geois, who was flanked by the honorary
presidents Of the committee. Sir Julian
Pauncefote, chief of the British delega.
ton, and Count Nigra, chief of the Ital.
ian delegation. M. Bourgeois presented
the question Of mediation and arbitra.
ton, n suggested a programme the
committee might follow, urging recourse
to all pacific means to settle interna'
tiOnal questions before a recourse to war
He submitted a long list of possible sub
jects of dispute which might arise be
tween nations, and might find solution
in arbitration, closing with the most diff.
ficult problems. He hen presented &
scheme already introduced to the full
conference by a Russian delegate, q
scheme consisting of 40 articles.
TnaurDanta IN poaaAaetor.