Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-03
PEACE ENJOYS
NOW SELECTED
ARE CLOTHED WITH ABSOLUTE
AUTHORITY
JAPANESE INSISTED ON THIS
First Meeting viii Be Held In WASH
ington Early in August for Organ
ization and Arrangement
Of Details
JAPANESE INSISTED ON THIS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
OYSTER BAY, L. l., July a.
BY direction of the president Sec
retary Loeb has made the formal an
nouncement of the appointment Of
peace ENJOYS in the following state
ment:
1.-The president announces that the
Russian and Japanese governments
have notified him that they have ap
pointed plenipotentiaries to meet here
| washington as soon after the first
of August as possible. The two Rus7
sian plenipotentiaries are Ambassador
Muravieff, formerly minister of Justice
and now ambassador at Rome, and
Ambassador Rosen. The Japanese
plenipotentaries are Baron Komura.
now minister of foreign affairs and
Minister Takahira.
1T is possible that each side may
send one or more additional repre-
sentatives. The plenipotentiaries of
both Russia and Japan will be instruct
ed with full power to negotiate and
conclude a treaty of peace, subject,
of course, to ratification by the respec-
tive home governments"
A day or two ago the Russian and
Japanese governments formally COM
municated to the president the names
of the plenipotentiaries they respec-
lively had selected. Acting as an in
termediary, the president communicate
ed the names of the Japanese ENJOYS
to the st. Petersburg government and
those of the Russian representatives
to the government at Toxic. Having
received from both governments as
surances that the selections were sat-
isfactory, the president, according to
his agreement with the belligerents,
authorized the public announcement of
the ENJOYS.
Some delay was occasioned in the
selection of the plenipotentiaries by the
insistence of Japan that the ENJOYS of
both governments be clothed with full
power to conclude peace and to ne
gotiate a permanent treaty. The Jap
anese government indicated pointedly
that the emperor would not permit his
ENJOYS to enter upon tentative con-
ference in which Japan was to define
it's terms and then let Russia decide
whether the conferees should proceed
with their deliberations. The Toxic
government insisted that the plenipo-
tentiaries should have conferred on
them treaty-making powers and that
the negotiations should be entered up
on in spirit of perfect sincerity.
Such, too, was the position taken by
President Roosevelt. He maintained
that only by clothing the ENJOYS with
ample authority to act for their respec-
tive governments could lasting peace
be achieved. He strongly urged the
st. Petersburg government to accede to
what was regarded as a reasonable
proposition of Japan. That he was sue
cessful in his presentation of the mat
ter to the Russian emperor is indicated
clearly in the statement which he is
sued today.
Baron Rosen already is en- route to
the United States. his coming being TO
succeed Count Cassini as the Russian
ambassador to this country. 1t is
probable that Ambassador Muraviefi
will start soon for the United States.
accompanied by considerable staff of
secretaries. clerks and interpreters.
The Japanese contingent OF oficials
and attaches. headed by Baron Komura,
is expected to leave Japan in time to
reach washington by August /.
No decision yet has been reached as
TO the place OF holding the session OF
the conference. For the purpose OF or.
ganlzation and to determine upon plans
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