Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-16
THE SEVENTH ARTICLE
 BONE OF CONTENTION.
Peace Penpctenaries Became Earnest in Their Views. Over the Request to Cede the Chinese Railway. in nanch uria, to China-All Day Discussion on this Point

launches were waiting. The Rus sians started first and escorted by Midshipman Blackburn, hurried to the landing and were soon under way. The little launch was quickly lost 10 sight by the curtain of heavy railt.
 So closely did the Japanese follow that it looked as if there might be race, but one of the secretaries was late and by the time Midshipman h. gersoll had ordered his launch to shove off the Russian launch was some dis tance ahead. Then came the convoy of the little squadron with several at- taches of the state department and AIidshipman Bagley in command. The weather up here is the most re- markable characteristic of the place. Last week the envoys sat in the con ference room in their shirtsleeves. be sieged and attacked on all sides by mosquitoes. To-day they started out wrapped in overcoats which showed many irregular creases that told of the sudden change in the weather and the hurried extraction of the garments from trunks AS they left this morn ing one of the envOys remarked that they might not discard their wraps m the conference room eff this thing keeps up" and he waved his hand in desperate sort of way at the heavy sea which was relentlessly beating on the rocky coast.
 The natives insist that the weather is unprecedented" but they said the same thing in the same surprised way | last week when the thermometer was around the nineties and the mosquitoes were inflicting great discomfort and causing bad tempers. Yesterday ana to-day have been cold, bleak days, the kind that usually come in November. All night long the wind blew gale and the beat of the heavy surf like | the booming of distant cannon. The hotel guests hugged the fire and felt a keen delight that there was fire to hug
 The article before the plenipoten- tiaries today, No [, covering the ques- ton of the cessiOn to China of the Chinese Eastern railroad. which runs south from Harbin to Port Arthur and | Dalny with a spur to New Chwang, where it connects with the Shanhaik, wan-Tien Tsin road, was conditionally accepted by the Russian reply, but agreement to it was bound up with con- alterations involving the fate of the whole negotiations, and it is certain to lead to long, earnest discussion. Rus sia will not admit the Japanese con- tention that the road is wholly a gov ernment institution. as all the shares | of the railroad corporation are owned l by the Russo-C Chinese bank. The gov ernment's interest in the road, how ever. will probably not be denied, but 1t will be urged that so far as it is private property it is not cOnfiscable | The Russian contention will be backed up by evidence. Mir Berg, the vice-di rector and attorney of the Russo-Chi' nese bank, while here attached to the mission as one of NJ. Witte's secre
 taries, is also here to protect the inter ests of the bank Nevertheless in the long run Russia. it can be regarded as certain, Is prepared to give up the road
 remuneratlng the Russo-Chinese bank
 if necessary, as with the loss of Port
 Arthur and Dalny and the evacuation of Manchuria Its raison d'etre fol
 strategic and military purposes ceases
 Its surrender to China, however, in
 wolves large monetary profit fol
 Japan which can properly claim re
 muneratiOn.
 The discussion on the seventh arti
 cle occupied the whole of the morning
 session and was taken up again this
 afternoon. The exchange of views
 was of very earnest character.
 It is known that the Japanese 'en
 voys sent to Wilmington for parch-
 ment paper, such as is used in the en.
 gTossment of treaties. This is regard.
 ed as significant.