The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-16
Welcomed by the Minister Of Foreign
Affairs, N. DelcasSe,
N BEHALF OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
Commission Has Decided to Work Only
Four Days Each Week.
PRESENTATION OF THE BRITISH CASE
sir Richard wcbstcr Occupied tho
Rest of the Day Explaining &C.
ographica, Difficulties


Paris. June 15,--Thc hrst formal meet
Ing of the Venezuelan arbitration commits
sion opened this morning.
Tho arbltrators. counsel and others be-
gan assembling at the foreign ofhce short
" before ii o'clock they were received
nv the minister of foreign affairs, NJ. Del
casse. in the apartment IN which the tri-
hunal win sit. They arc the rooms used
AZ the meeting OF the spanish peace con-
ference and during the Boring sea con-
vention There were about forty persons
connected with the tribunal present
There we're less than dozen spectato5s
in the portion OF the apartment roped OH
for the general public and half dozen
ladies. Including Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
and others belonging to the American
marty. rhe arbitrators took their seats
soon after IL o'clock. Chief Justice Mel
Vile Il. Fuller and Sir Richard Penn Col
/ Inns. lord lusticr OK appeals, sitting on the
( right of Prof De Martens. tho umpire, ana
Baron Russell Of Killowon, lord chief JUS
tice OF England and Justice David j.
Brewer sitting at his left Former Presi-
dent benjamin Harrison General Benja-
min Z. Tracy and the remainder of the
Americans sat at tables al the left side OF
8 ,hc room facing the court and the British
representatlyos were seated at tables Oh
tho right.
nb ,oreign .nipister in welcoming the
49, ..tt ai,ae-
arhlpators' b"l0 IL gave wa" PNN'"'
. ure to welcome the high commission on
lbrbalf Of the government, the republic, ne
iced d, the fart that
'"VV'' ""' S''' t.t, =,
Paris had been CHOSEN LOT INC S''''ne "
the tribunal, among whom he saw proml-
mani mon some of whom had occupied
, ,,.,..,t, a.. hich,a, nosttlons In.
WIN u'S''"'''"" '''' - ~,
ar INV pi'''"o"N' We ''
Q was universally acknowledged as an au-
70 thortty ON international law, he continued
e thotr Lahore could result only happily IN
w. t - T.,
the interest Oh 'nu ''ep"'V '"N -,
y terests of humanity for II would consul
= tute another step toward the realization
D ~ Tho nohlo nroiert which launched from
u ,r.-, .i,,o,a n.,. rst,i,g r,nid
@ an illusirous throne was hdNus I"pi'
way into the hearts ana consciehees OF the
o ncoplc. NJ. Delcagso concluded with thank
"a t,o ,rhitr,tors for having accented the
u ''7
10 hgp'I'"'l'' W ''""~N
IS prof he Martens replied, thanking the
French foreign minister for his welcome
rs a.. ,o.,,,,ai,,y ovtendod IN the arbi.
J.. "pu 'i' no'''''''' -
u traitors The sneaker reealeu tue lae' 'na
~ he came here seven years ago to attent
y the Bering sea aroitrdllou' nc nn ',..,
u tho rules OF the procedure agreed upon a
ne yesterdays conference and said the arnl
as traitors would meet every day excepting
8 SUNDAYS.
H. Sir Richard Webster thereupon rose an
p. said that in order TO meet The views o
Nv Former president haiIlsoh any Wv III
pc American council. IN which the Englis
ne representatives, concurred proposed tina
es they only meet four days in the week.
G. view OF the extremely heavy work befor
en- them.
n Mr. Harrison said he thought ther
H. would be done in four days work enous
an for ordinary mes.a,nd he evoked genera
ng smile as looking around on the gatnerin
us of the most eminent iurists of Great Brit
ain and America, he added; And we az
all ordinary men, The work petote then