The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-16

which are daily sent to Europe and the
 Far East may be had from the state
 ment that Sunday one cable company
 handled s19,000 worth of business in
 cluding dispatches from both the Rus
 sian and Japanese peacemakers, from its headquarters here
 Both sides are very keen in the mat ter of their facilities for communica- tion. The heavy tax on the local tele- phone wires made 1t impossible for them to get quick service between the hotel and their conference rooms in the navy yard. and complaint was made, with the result that Secretary Peirce had two direct telephone systems in stalled between these points. one for the Russians and one for the Japanese. The exclusove use of the navy yard, so far as civilians are concerned. is still possible, and it is used absolutely by the members of the peace commission. Yesterday. in addition to the regular guard of marines which from the first was placed over the naval stores build ing detail of secret service men was added. They surrounded the building and kept constant watch through the session.
 COnsidered Article W.
 At the morning session today consid- | eration of Araticle ", which relates to | the policy of the open door. was begun. AS the cession of Sakhalin Is the fifth article, the natural deduction would be | that today would witness a collision and possibly a deadlock.
 But 1t appeared more likely that the question of cession of the island, upon | which neither Is now prepared to yield, | when reached by mutual agreement. would be postponed until the end. The policy of each side as understood being ! to maneuver to place the responsibility | of a rupture upon the other. It Is re- garded as practical certainty that | neither will insist at this juncture upon precipitating situation which will de- eide this issue. The plan Is almost | certain to pass over the disputed arr | ticles and see how far an agreement is possible, then to return and attack the | obstacles. This Is the logical and gem | eral method of diplomacy It has the great advantage of bringing the pleni- | potentiaries to a reapproachment upon | every possible point and clearly edefin- | ing the points of divergence, narrowing | the issues which divide the negotiations | to the fewest possible number.
 | Narrowing the Issues.
 l If, for instance. the disputed points | were reduced to two, as 1t Is considered certainly eventually will be, the pleni- | potentiaries would be enabled to bar gain or compromise to offer proposi- tions and counter propositions. If in | | impossible, the world would know and be able to form its judgment of the merits of the respective contentious and place the blame for the prolongatton of the carnage in the Far East. The very | fact that ultimately the world will be | enabled to fix the responsibility for a | rupture that in the final analysis the | two countries are on trial before the | public opinion of the world, constitutes the main hope Of d successful outcome | of the negotiations
 Article III, which was agreed to yes | terday, il developed today, was incor- | rectly stated to be the cession of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. That ar ticle comes later. The third article pertained to the restoration of the Chi nese administration in the province of Manchuria and was necessary natural | sequence to Article H. providing fol mutual evacuation and mutual recogni-
 tion of Chinese territ orial integrity and the "open door policy for which Amer lean diplomacy has fought.
 | Attaches DuIi Day.
 | During the cold rainy day at the ho- tel the attaches of the two missions i'm
 patiently awaited news of the confer ence The Russians settled down this 1 morning to the Russian game of "vtnt
 with which they amused themselves foi
 the greater part of the day.
 The younger members of the Japan csc mission gossiped with the other
 guests, danced and played bridge. bu
 the arrival of the various editions o1
 the newspapers was as usual the sigr
 for A rush to the news counter and ther
 the men would retire to quiet corner
 to learn news about the negotiations