Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-13
PEACE IN PROSPECT
Roosevelt, Cassini and Taxa
 hira In Conference.
BOTH ACCEPT OFFER OF GOOD WILL
Presidents Plans For Ending Wan In Far East Crowned With Sue. cess-Armistice Soon-Treaty
 City Not Known Yet,

| WASHINGTON. June 13. - Official assurance that the presidents efforts
 to bring Russia and Japan together to | discuss peace will be crowned with
 success was brought to the White
 House by Count Cassini, the Russian | ambassador, who called by appoint
 ment and in the name of the Emperor | Nicholas formally accepted the presi- | dents "offer of good will.''
 | The following official statement re- 1 garding the conference was issued at | the White House:
 | Ambassador Cassini called to ex- press the Russian governments assent to the presidents proposition and to state that they would appoint pleni- potentiaries to meet the plenipoten- tiaries of Japan to discuss the question of peace"
 Japan and Russia have each sug- gested to President Roosevelt the place which they deem best suited for peace negotiations Neither mentioned Wash | ington nor the battlefield of Manchu- ria. There is about an even. chance be- l tween Europe and the United States. Russia is believed to have suggested Geneva or The Hague. Japan is be- lieved to have suggested city in the United States, but not Washington. 1 It is understood in high official l quarter here that Marquis Ito and Baron Komura, Japanese minister for foreign affairs, will be members of the | peace conference.
 l During the past two weeks the presi- dents efforts have been directed to-
 ward bringing the belligerents into l amicable contact on the basis of a mutual agreement to consider terms ! of peace. This he has now accom- 1 plished. It remains for the belliger- ent powers to name their plenipoten- tiaries and agree upon time and 1 place for them to meet to discuss terms ] and to negotiate a treaty of peace. These details are now under considera- ton with bright prospect that such i minor differences as may exist will 1 be resolved within few days. | A conference of supreme importance was held in the blue room of the White House here, and President Roosevelt, { Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa- dor, and Kogoro Takahira, the Japa- nese minister, were the principals. | President Roosevelt now has unequt- vocal assurances from both Russia and Japan of the acceptance of his proposi- tion that they enter on negotiations for peace. The president likewise is as- sured of the absolute sincerity of both governments in acceding to his sugges- ! ton.
 | When arrangements are completed ! definitely an armistice will be agreed
 upon and the great armies ln Man churia vii, lower their bayonets pend { Ing the formal negotiations of a per- manent treaty of peace.
 The St. Petersburg correspondent of ! the London. Times says:
 | Tt is no exaggeration to say that ! President Roosevelt is the most popu- lar man in Russia today. The presi- dents rare insight. aided by the skill ! and tact of his ambassador, Mir. Mey- CT, enabled him to gauge the proper moment to offer advice which the ini- [ tiator of The Hague peace conference could not refuse"
 A St. Petersburg dispatch says that the Russian experiment in parliament tarianism will begin in September. The emperor has already given his approv- al to the scheme now being finally but formally reviewed by the council of state for bicameral legislative body. consisting of A lower house. called the gosudarstvennaia duma dmperial du- ma). and an upper house. gosudarst- vennaia sovet or the present council of the empire. but reserving to the czar | final authority.