Daily inter mountain., 1899-05-18
Tie Delegates all Arrive at
The Hague.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
10 Map 0u! the Work of the Meet.
ing--M DeStaal of Russia will
be the Presiding Officer,

Ihe Hague, May 11.-AIl the delegat.
TO the international peace conference
nave arrived. Today was spent in q gen.
eral exchange of visits. The permanent
president of the conference will b. NJ d.,
Staal. Russian ambassador to Great Brit
am and the head of the Russian deiega-
ton. The honorary chairman. who will
open the proceedings viii be NJ. de Beau
tort, president of the council and minister
Of foreign affairs Of the government OF
the Netherlands.
The city is brilliantly decorated with
foreign flags, denoting the various ma
tional headquarters. This evening NJ.
Van Karnebook, former Dutch minister
of foreign affairs, gave a dinner to intro
duce the foreign delegates
The reporters Will be admitted only 10
near the inaugural address Of NJ de Beau
fort, who is excluded from opening the
discussion of the czar's project. Three
commissioners will then be named to ar
range programmes for discussion. The
first relates to restrictions Of armament
and military expenditures. The second
warfare, ana the third with mediation and
arbitration. great mass Of diplomatic
documents will be submitted OH these
uhjects-documents, including the memo
randa Of Prince Meternich Of Austria
in 1916, regarding the suggestion of the
prince regent of England. supported by
Alexander l. Of Russia for an nternat atom
al peace conference: the opinions of David
Dudley Field of the United States, as to
fixing a permanent limit TO military
forces: the argument OF NJ. gnhac in
favor of simultaneous disarmament; the
proposals of Napoleon Ill. to convoke
European peace conference at Paris IN
1868, and similar papers.
The second commission will consider
the directions of the congress of Paris,
1850, and the Geneva convention, 1864,
the unratified clauses Of the Geneva con-
yention of 1868, the acts Of the St. Peters,
burg convention prohibiting the use Of
certain projectiles BY civilized nations,
the minutes Of the Brussels conference Of
1874, the suggestions of the Oxford man
ual regarding the laws and observances
of war, the rules for the bombardment
Of cities adopted by the institute of in
tarns tional law in Venice. in 1885, the.
declarations of France and Great Brit
ain regarding the unadopted rules of the
Geneva conventions: the views of the
Amsterdam chamber Of commerce, apl
proved by successive Netherlands foreign
ministers, urging the adoption of the
minutes Of the Brussels conference Of
1874, dealing with the laws and observ-
ances of war, which did not lead to the
conclusion of any convention, and the
circular of the Dutch minister of foreign
affairs in 1871, relating to the adoption
of the principle Of invioa bility of pri-
vata property and urging a clearer def
ntion of the term 'contraband Of war"
The third commission will consider the
proposals Of Lord Clarendon at the Paris
conference in 1856 for the intermediation
of a friendly state previous to recourse to
force, the motion Of Signor Mancini in the
Italian chamber of deputies in 1875 in "a
vor Of arbitration; the acts Of the Berlin
and Zurich conferences on compromise and
mediation: David Dudley Fields plan for
an arbitration tribunal: the proposals for
an arbitra ton tribunal for the north. CEN
trail and south American states adopted
in Washington in 1880: the Marquis Of
Salsbury's letters to Sir Julian Paunce-
fote in 1896, relating to the conclusion Of
an arbitration treaty between Great Brit
ain and the United States, and the terms
Of the ratified Anglo-American treaty,
and many similar documents.
NJ. de Staal will open the conference by
summarizing the objects of the gather
peror Nicholas that the powers will sup
port the benefcent work of the confer
ence. After the appointment OF the COM
/ missions, the conference will adjourn for
a week. The American delegates, it is
understood. will carefully abstain from
! mixing in purely European questions but
will take an earnest part in the discussion
! of the application of arbitration and i'm
| provements in the Geneva rules for the
F.! protection of field hospitals, giving. also
| special attention to the abolition of pri-
Watering and the exemption of all pri-
vate property from seizure, except con-
| traband of war, this policy being the sans
| as that adopted by Benjamin Franklin
in negotiating the treaty with Frederick
the Great and successfully urged by
| Presidents James Monroe, James Buch-
anan, Benjamin Harrison and William
Mckinley.
Indianapolis, May 17.-The cablegram
| of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president OF
the International Council OF Women to
The Hague, today reported resolutions
| the following states: California, Utah,
Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio
| Indiana. Georgia, Rhode Island, New
| York and Pennsylvania and at Washing
ton, D. c. Summaries Of the reports show
| that 2i4S2 women were present at these
| meetings, representing by actual count
of the constituencies S5,561. Mrs Sewall
| SAID: when one considers the brief time
! less than three weeks, since this particu-
lar movement IN support of the Hague