The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18
CZAR'S PEACE FARLEY
CONFERENCE Ar THE HAGUE WILL
BE CALLED TO ORDER THIS
MORNING
TOPICS ~ BE DISCUSSED
they VIII Include All the Peace
Promoting proposals That Are
Known tS Hfstory-HOw the
Work VIII BE Divided-The
Hague GaiIy Decorated With
Flags of All Nations Represented.

THE HAGUE. May IL All the dele
gates to the international peace confer
ence have arrived. Today was spent in
a general exchange of visitsA
The president of the peace conference
will be M. De Staal, Russian ambassador
to Great Britain, and the head of the
Russian delegation The honorary chair
man, who will open the proceedings, will
be M De Beaufort. presidentof the coun-
ell and minister of foreign affairs of the
government of the Netherlands.
The city is brilliantly decorated with
foreign flags. denoting the various ma
I ttonal Headquarters This evening M.
Van Karnebrook, formerly Dutch min
lister Of foreign affairs gave a dinner to
introduce the foreign delegates.
The reporters will be admitted only to
hear the inaugural address of M. de
Reaufort, who Is excluded from opening
tie discussion of the cars proposal
Three commissioners are to be named
70 arrange programmes fer discussion.
The first. relates to restrictions of arma-
ment and military expenditure The
second deals with laws governing civil
lied warfare, and the third with media
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ton and arbitration. A great mass of
diplomatic documents will be submitted
on these subjects; documents including
the memorandum of Prince Matternoch,
OF Austria, in 1916, regarding the sug-
gestton of the prince regent Of England,
supported by Alexander L., of Russia, for
an international peace conference; the
opinions of David Dudley Field, of the
. United States as to fixing a permanent
limit to military forces; the argument of
M Mergenhac, in favor eft simultaneous
disarmament; the proposal OF Napoleon
! III. Ito. sconyelse a European peace con-
ference at Paris, in 1863, and similar
papers.
The second~~commissio will consider
the declarations Of the congress of Paris,
1850, and the Geneva convention, 1854, the
urratified clauses of the Geneva conVen-
ton of 1868; the acts of the Strasburg
convention, prohibiting the use of GER
tain projectiles by civilized nations; the
minutes of the Brussels convention of
1874; the suggestions of the Oxford man
ual regarding the laws and observances
of war; the rules for bombardment of
cities adopted by the Institute Of Interna-
tional Law in Venice. in 1S16; the declara-
lions of France and Great Britain re-
garding the undeveioped rules of the
Geneva convention: the rules OF the
Brussels conference of 1874, dealing with
the laws and observances 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 inviolability of private property, and
urging a clearer definition of the term
"contrahand of war"
The third commission will consider the
proposals of Lord clarendon IN 1856 for
the intermedia ton of a friendly state
previous to a recourse to force the mo-
ton of Gen. Mancini in the Italian cham
Der of deputies in 1875 in favor of arbi-
tration; the acts of Berlin and Zurich
conferences on compromise and media
ton. David Dudley Fields plan for an
arbitration tribunal. the proposals for an
arbitration tribunal for the North Central
and South American states, adopted In
Washington in 1890; the Marquis of Sails
bury's letters to Sir Julian Pauncefote In
1896 relating to the conclusion OF an ar
bitration treaty between Great Britain
and the United States, and the terms OF
the Anglo-American treaty and many
similar documents.
D. de Staal will open the conference by
summarizing the objects of the gathering
and expressing the confidence Of Emperor
Nicholas that the, powers will support
the beneficient work of the conference.
After the appointment of the commits
sion the conference will adjourn for a
week