The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-06-23
WILL MEET TO FIX
Terms Of Peace
WASHINGTON TO BE SCENE OF
CONFERENCE BETWEEN RUS
SIAN AND JAP ENJOYS.
Both Governments Have Agreed to
This Arrangement-Date ofConfer-
ence and Selection of Plenipotenti-
aries Not Yet Announced.

This Arrangement-D orConIef-
ence and Selection of Plenipotenti-
aries Not Yet Announced.
Washington, June 16.-America's
national capital has been selected as
the seat of negotiations between the
Observation-Disclosures of Russia and Japan
for treaty of peace. The choice Of
Washington as the location of the peace
conference marks another forward step
in the negotiations toward ultimate
peace in the far east, instituted by
President Roosevelt.
Officially Announced.
Official announcement Of the selec-
ton Of Washington was made by Secre'
| tary Loeb at the white house at 1928
p. m. Thursday. 1t was in typewrlt-
ten form, and read as follows:
when the two governments were
unable to agree upon either Chefoo or
Paris, the president suggested The
| Hague, but both governments have
now requested that Washington be
chosen as the place of meeting, and the
president has accordingly formally no.
tilted both governments that Washing
ton will be so selected
This statement was supplemented
shortly afterward by a semi official an
nouncement that latter meeting and
organizing the plenipotentiaries OF the
two governments, if it should be found
20 be uncomfortably hot in Washing
| ton, may adjourn the meeting to some
summer resort in the north and there
continue their sittings until such time
as the weather in Washington shall be
more comfortable
At a conference with Kogoro Taxa
hira, the Japanese minister, had with
President Roosevelt, he conveyed to the
president the Japanese govrnment's
final refusal to consent to the holding
of the conference in Europe. The re-
fusal of Japan to agree to the holding
of the conference in Europe was COM
municated by President Roosevelt to
the Russian ambassador, and likewise
cabled to St. Petersburg. While the
president did not act in the capacity OF
arbiter between Russia and Japan, he
was in position, after the conference
with Minister Takahira and his COM
munication to Ambassador Cassini. to
formally announce the selection OF
Washington as the seat of the confer
ence.
Time of Conference.
The proposed conference is scarcely
likely to be convened before the middle
of August, and perhaps not until lat
er date. 1t may be July 1, possibly
little later, before the arrangements
for the meeting of the plenipotentiaries
finally are completed. Both Russia
and Japan are moving with the utmost
elaboration, for the game Of diplomacy
now being played is of even greater
Importance to each government than
are the movements of the armies on
the battlefield. After the completion
of the preliminary arrangements the
plenipotentiaries must proceed to
Washington, and it will require at
least month for the negotiators of
the two governments, with their re-
spective stats, to come together, the
distance from Japan, particularly, be-
ing so great that a shorter time scarce
" could be allowed. In view, there
fore, of all the conditions and incud-
ing in the equation the factor Of unfor-
seen delays over matters of minor con-
sequence, it seems quite unlikely that
the conference will assemble formally
before the middle of September.
Hitch Is Averted.
st. Petersburg, June 19.-Russia has
finally and definitely accepted Wash
ington as the meeting place of the Rus
sian and Japanese plenipotentiaries,
the foreign Office having waived its re-
quest for reconsideration at the per-
sonal direction of the emperor, whose
desire to give the fullest and fairest
opportunity to President Roosevelt's
proposal for peace conference is
hereby manifested. After confer
ence with Ambassador Meyer, Count
Lamsdorff, the foreign minister, went
to Peterhof, and laid the matter before
the emperor, who, on learning that in
sistence on The Hague might endanger
the negotiations, directed Count Lams-
dorff to inform Ambassador Meyer that
Russia would accept Washington The
result is looked upon as decided tri-
umph for American diplomacy. In GER
tain quarters here envy and jealousy Of
the United States are ill concealed. The
entire collapse of the negotiations was
predicted Saturday, and there was al
most open exultatiOn at what was de-
clared to be rebuff to Roosevelt"
Even in peace circles gloomy faces
.uo,o drou MN of tho rennrt that Russia