The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-06-09
THE SCHEME OF MEDIATION
Is READ BEFORE THE PEACE
CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE.
PLAN MEETS FULLEST APPROVAL
Any Country May OTer To Mediate-Doo-
ument Consists q Eight
Articles.

Adyices from The Hague state that
the arbitration committee Of the peace
conference held a meeting Monday
under the craftsmanship Of M. Leon
Bourgeois. Mr.. Andrew D. White, head
of the United States delegation; Sir
Julian Pauncefote, head Of the British
delegation, and NJ. De staal, head of
the Russian delegation, with all the
members of the committee present.
After M. Bourgeois had made a
sympathetic reference to the death Of
Miss Roth, daughter Of DR.. Roth, head
of the Swiss delegation, who was killed
in a railway accident last Thursday at
Flushing, the secretary of the drafting
committee read the draft scheme of
mediation it had had under considera-
tion.
Articles l and are declaratory-to
the effect that the signatory powers,
in order to prevent a recourse to force,
have agreed to effect pacific solutions
of differences and will in excep-
tional circumstances before an APP
peal to force, have recourse to the
mediation of one or more friendly
powers.
Article 3. Independently of q re-
course to such amicable means, the
signatories deem it expedient that one
or more powers not concerned in the
conflict should offer its or their own
initiative and so far as circumstances
will permit its or their good offices of
mediation to the states at variance.
The rights to offer good offices of me-
diation belongs to powers not con-
cerned in the conflict, even during the
course of actual hostilities, and the ex-
ercises of this right can never be con-
sidered by the parties at variance as
an unfriendly act.
Article provides that the role Of
mediator shall consist in the reconcil-
iation of conflicting claims and the
allaying of bitterness between states
at variance.
Article 5. declining the limitation of
the functions of mediator, says these
shall cease on the moment when it is
stated by one of the parties to the dis
pute or by the mediator; that the ar
rangements or the basis of friendly
understanding proposed by him is not
accepted.
Article says that the good offices
contemplated, either at the instance of
the parties at variance or on the initia-
tive of uninvolved powers are exclu-
sively of the character Of friendly
counsel.
Article asserts acceptance of medi-
alton cannot have the effect except by
virtue Of convention to the contrary
of interrupting or retarding or ham
! pering modifying or other prepare
tions for war. II mediation interyenes
after the opening of hostilities it shall
not interrupt except by virtue of a
convention to the contrary military
operations in course of execution.
Article S. The signatures are in
accord to recommend in all circum
stances permitting it, special media
3 ton in the following form: In the
: event of grave differences threatening
3 political states at variance shall choose
: respectively power to which eacl
shall confde the mission of entering
! into deliberations with the poWel
= chosen by the other side, in order t.
u prevent rupture Of friendly rela
tions. During the currency of thei
mandate, which except in the event 0
stipulation to the contrary, shall no
+ exceed thirty days, the question il
dispute shall be considered as referred
/, exclusively to these powers. The,
k shall apply all their efforts to settl
l. the dispute and in the event of al
J. actual rupture of friendly relation
e shall remain charged with the mission
it of taking advantage of every ocoasio.
to restore peace.
d The draft was adopted without mod
is ifcation although the committee stiT
!. ulated that it should be subject t
>. notifications at the second reading.