The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-14

estine The Russian delegation made s.
much noise as to effectually prevent MT
| Trietsch from being heard. Upon
vote being taken it was easily seen that
| however much the members OF the CON
gress might be interested in colonizine
| Cyprus as a Zionist body, they looked
! to Palestine. and to Palestine alone
| Another uproar was created by Dr.
Motzkin of Berlin, He criticised the re-
port of the Central Committee in varl-
| Gus points, complaining also OF the
| dictatorship Of DR.. Herzl when ne
| thought was not compatible With the
democratic character or the ZIONIST
movement. In reply Dr. HefZl pointed
| out in detail how he had always work
| ed with the members of the Central
! Committee.
On Thursday evening special as well
as a regular meeting of the shareholders
of the Jewish Colonial Trust was held.
From the report, which was then made,
it seems that over 100000 sh9res nave
already been subscribed for. The trust
is founded under English law, and has
its head offices in London. Ihe shafeS
are of the value of one pound each.
There seems little doubt that in short
time the full capital of two million
pounds will be subscribed. Various
changes in the statutes of the trust We're
agreed to. which, of course, can only be
made If they are in conformity with
English law. 1t was | o'clock i'll the
morning before the meeting broke up.
On the whole the Itonists seems to
have little thought of either eating or
sleeping. Their whole time is given up
to their work The Committee on Or
ganlzation sat enc night until past j
o'clock in The morning. The work of
this committee was, perhaps, the most
important of the whole Congress. Its
report, which was unanimously accept
ed. calls for a more complete organiza-
ton of the Zionist societies. Each land
Is to have, in general, one central or
ganization. This central organization
can then divide up its various societies
into local federations. The vienna
committee, however, will tbe in connec-
ton only with the various declarations
and not with individual societies
It is. of course, impossible to give a
complete report of the proceedings in
this place Various other Zionist meet
igs were held during and after the
Congress. AS at the second, so at the
third, there were number of women
delegates. A special meeting for women
was held by the female delegates at
which d large number of Jewish women
of Rasle were present. Mrs. Richard
Gottheil of New York, presided, The
outcome of the meeting was the forma-
ton Of Woman's Zionist society Of
Basic. which commenced work with six
ty members.
Among the many speeches which were
made, the one by Sir Francis Monte
fore may be singled out as having made
deep impression, Through the late
Sir Moses Montefiore the family name
has always been closely connected with
Palestine. 1t was interesting to see
scion of the same house take up the
work which had first made that name
famous.
The congress lasted from Tuesday
morning until Friday afternoon. The
Jewish sabbath was just on the point
of commencing when the last votes
were taken. the last words said. The
sabbath peace was to many an ausury
that some day lasting peace would
also come to the wandering people of
the Book, when in their own land they
should be able to realize those hopes
which had kept them alive during all
these years and WHICH had been a
guiding star for them throughout their
history. There were tears In many eyes
as one wished the other Next year
again in Basic New York Sun.