Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-11

tentiaries in awaiting the word of his majesty before completing the draft of their response, an enforced pause has come in the proceedings of the peace conference. The tally-hOs and automobiles which reported at the en- trance of the Wentworth hotel at the usual hour this morning were sent back to their quarters. The heat was sweltering, Baron Komura and his colleagues remained closely in their rooms. They have figuratively folded their arms and await the Russian re- sponse.
 NJ. Witte was at work early and with his secretaries busily engaged i'll deciphering telegrams from St Peters burg before eight o'clock. All the threads are in his hands. He controls and directs everything on the Russian side. His colleague, Baron Rosen, ac- companied by Mir Poktiloff went into Portsmouth with an automobile to do some shopping.
 The period of waiting will probably continue until Monday to which day the next meeting of the conference has been adjourned. Baron komull and his entourage are content to give the other side all the time required. At the meeting yesterday NJ. Witte promised to give response at the earliest possible moment. They read fly accepted this arrangement and dld not even suggest fixing time limit. Among them a feeling of relief seems to be manifested that the events of al, history They have patience and know how to walt. Among the Russians it is already ap- parent that the Japanese terms, es- pecally asking Russia to foot the biIt for the cost of the war. cession of ter ritory and to put a limitation upon their naval forces in the far east, are considered absolutely unentertainable. On these points the Russian answer is sure to be a non posslmus.
 Nevertheless this will not end the negotiations. NJ. Witte Is sincerely desirious of making peace and the Russian reply plainly stating what points can and what points cannot be accepted as base of negotiation. will leave the way open for further pro posals and counter proposals. The Russians would doubtless like to pro- ceed by process of elimination agreeing to some and rejecting or making counter proposals to others. But the Japanese are not expected to agree to enter upon the diplomatic game of give and take until after the material principles are accepted. Their rejoinder to the Russian reply Is expected to be practically an ulti- matum. statement of their irredu- cible minimum which they will ask the Russians to take or leave. AS to the cost of the war. while the Japan ese have mentioned no sum. 1t is known that they estimate the cost to date at about 65O million dollars. The advantage from this point of view of not naming fixed sum is that 1t makes it clear that the principle or money compensation which they have adopted is the cost of the war which will continue at the rate of about a million a day as long as the war con- tinues.
 Writing to his paper. the Jiji ShiH- 100. at Tokio, Fihoi Onishi expresses great satisfaction with the peace nego' tiations and particularly with the man. ner in which the Japanese envoys are conducting the case of his country. He says their method of doing business is direct and absolutely devoid of red tape and so far as they are concerned a treaty of peace might he signed to- day. He comments on the necessity of the Russian plenipotentiaries in sending the Japanese terms to the em- peror. If Russians cannot accept the terms. he announces. All right, We will go on fighting" However. he gees no reason for haste in the negotia- tions. The position of Japan. he says. is much better to-day than at the be- ginning Of the war.
 There is no Russian navy now; there is no Port Arthur. no Liao Yang. no Mukden. and our army is in pcs session of Sakhalin and threatening the communication of Nladivostok.
 He expresses the belief that the whole civilized world will agree that the peace terms of Japan are reasona- ble. consequently if the conference fails it will he due to Russia. Should it end without peace he sees nothing in the future except tO fight to the bif- ter end There is. he says. no nation which could with the observance of the proper proprieties suggest slllpse- guent negotiations for peace.
 Alexander W. Brlantchaninoff. cor respondent of the St Petersburg Slovo. writing on the peace situation to-day. says: '.Presidcnt Roosevelt in his toast fo the plenipOteniiaries but as .t. eas clusion 0f a just and lasting peace. IL Is to I,e regretted that personality so Independent in his opinions and so uni yer<aIIy esteemed as President Eoo<e- veIt. cannot for reasons easily under stood explicitly state what he means by a just and lasting peace but has to leave # to flle two teIIigerents to ar- rive at an understanding.
 But an understanding i< not easy. The ideas of just peace differ widely in the two countries An excited state of public feeling exists i'm Japan They are elatesi with the sucr-e~ses wIIics they themselves did not expect. while in Russia the people are wounded ny unexpected reverSes. Leaving to the Japanese the care of sIczkinx froEr fseir point of view. I. in my capacity ss a Russian can only give the rez- sssE< why we opTo>e certain IspanrSs pretensiOBs. although we at tbe same tfnse recoznize the rights they acquire rhr.uxh the success of their arms
 No p>are can be lasting if --gt tuS1 from fbe view point of those vno are nos vfcfims- Otherwise they would Ic forever animated by the feeling of re -enfmenf and desire for rrvenx~ If