The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 10.-Peace
was officially proclaimed between the
National and the American baseball
leagues when the conference of their
respective committees adjourned here
shortly after o'clock tonight.
The committees had been in session
yesterday and last night and remained
in continuous session today without
luncheon or any other interruption un-
til a decisive and final result was
reached, and the confereeS caught the
night trains for their respective homes.
The result is given fully in the sign
ed articles of agreement that were Civ
en- out after adjournment and they are
final. The conferees of the American
league had plenipotentiary powers from
the start, and the National league con-
fereeS did not sign until after they were
given such powers by wire today from
their respective clubs. The conference
would have closed late in the after
noon or at least earlier in the evening
but for the delay in getting such au-
thority from the New York and Boston
clubs of the National league.
The owners of all of the National
league clubs were kept at the long
distance telephone during the afternoon
in their respective cities and full and
final consent was secured before the
adjournment, so that the decision
dSdCHSO Is that OIL the court OIL ldSI re-
sort and will be recognized as the su-
preme law Of the two leagues.
Hermann the Peacemaker.
While all of the eight conferees did
their full share in reaching a result
which was received with demonstra-
lions that were like jollif1cation, it is
conceded by all that the personal rela-
lions between Chairman Hermann and
President Johnson had much to do with
1T. They have been friends from boy
hood and closely associated for many
years, Ban Johnson having been sport
ing editor Of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune in former years, when
( Hermann was prominent city off,
cial, in which capacity he still Off1ciateS.
When the confereeS convened yeSter-
day none seemed hopeful of such a re-
suit as was finally reached. At former
meetings each side mistrusted the 9TH
er and even charged bad faith August
4 Hermann has been called in politics
"the man whose word is as good as his
! bond" and Johnson referred to this on
his arrival, stating that while he did
not have much confidence in confer
enceS he did have the fullest confidence
in Hermann.
Other conferees before they retired
last night expressed equal confidence in
Hermann, who became the Bismarck
of the occasion today and would not let
the conference adjourn or recess or do
anything else until the articles of
agreement were signed by each of the
sixteen clubs in the two major leagues.
The visiting conferees were unani-
nous in saying that Garry Hermann
led them into the promised land" and
while Hermann is the president of a
National league club, the American
league conferees were most enthusi-
aStic in according him credit for the
result.
Somers Aided Hermann.
Charles w. Somers, of Cleveland,
who arrived early yesterday morning
in advance of the other American con-
ferees from Chicago, talked peace with
Hermann from the start, and is cred
tied with having had very much to do
with the harmony and unanimity of
the occasion, in calling Hermann the
: Iron Prince" a la Bismarck, and other
names characteristic of the ball field
1t was currently said around the lobby
that he held more than a full hand
that he could throw the Cincinnati
club into the American league if his
National league colleagues would not
come to peace terms with him. and that
President Ban Johnson knew him too
we'll to want any war with him.
While the jollifying over the declara-
ton Of peace was going on at the st.
NlCuOldS, GT0SlQ6nI Hu1Ildn1 announced
that there would be meeting of the
National league at the Grand hotel one
week form next Monday, Jan. 10.
1t was also announced that there
would be a meeting in February of the
three presidents, Harry Pulliam, of the
National league; Ban Johnson, of tbs
American league, and Pat Powers, OF
the National association, at some place
to be selected hereafter, for the purpose
of taking the preliminary steps for an
agreement between the minor league
clubs similar to that which has just
been entered into between the two Iarg-
er leagues.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 10.-The
joint peace committee of the National
and American Baseball leagues ad-
Journed shortly after Z o'clock tonight
when the following was given out as
unanimously adopted:
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1903.-The
American and National Baseball
leagues, having appointed committees
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