The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-31
TREATY BEING
PUT IN SHAPE
Considerable Detail Will Have to be
Worked Out.
WHITES ENEMIES ACTIVE
NOTHING FROM JAPAN TO INDl-
GATE POPULAR FEELING.

n oRTSMOUTH, Aug. 3O.-Actual
work of drafting the Treaty Of
Portsmouth" began today. 1t is
being done by NJ. De Martens and Mr.
Dennison, acting as legal advisers for
the respective sides. While the bases"
of peace have been accepted by the
plenipotentiaries, considerable detail
remains to be worked out in the elab-
grafton of the articles of the treaty.
This is especially true in regard to
the articles dealing with the Chinese
Eastern railroad and the surrender or
the leases of the Lao Tung peninsula
and Port Arthur and Talienwan
tDalny). NJ PokotilOff, the Russian
minister to Pekin who was formerly
manager of the Russo-C Chinese bank at
Pef1in and who has intimate knowl-
edge of all the details relating to those
matters. is assisting De Martens.
Japanese Disappointed.
a very anomalous situation exists
as TO the impression created by the
conclusion Of peace. While the out
side world appiauds, in Japan there
- evidently great disappointment IN
The terms, and in Russia, where it
Touid seem that there should be uni
! Aersal rejoicing over the great diplo-
matte victory NJ Witte has won. the
government seems to have received it
wth the people it will make NJ.
Witte a great and popular figure and
add to his lauTes but at court evil
IDENTIFY the very victory that NJ. Witte
has achieved makes it all the more
bitterly resented.
Expected Him to Fail.
tt is<an open secret that when the
emperor appointed NJ White chief
plenipot%ntiary the military party ex-
pected him to fail They did not
want peace. and IL was freely pre-
dlcted in St Petersburg when NJ. WHITE
left that he had been given an i'm
possible mission. They expected him
10 fail in the negotiations or TO make
bad peace" and either would have
soelled political ruin. Instead. upon
the very terms upon which the en-
peror told Mr.. Meyer he would make
peace and upon which the military
party did not believe II possible for
peace to be negotiated. NJ White sue
ceeded in securing treat. honorable
and, under the circumstances. favor
able to Prussia.
intrigue Against Witte.
This has only exasDerated his enc
mics the more and intrigue is again
at work to discredit him. Since Japan
was m a conclliatOry mood. they now
say ne has made p mistake i'm surren-
dering half of Sakhalin. Yet he did
50 by the cars orders and himself
insists that personally he would have
STUCK 10 - end TO his original dec
laratiou MOTTO cede territory and give
indemnity
Nothing From Toxic.
Not a word or line about the recent
or the news comes out of Japan In
view Of the situation both at Toxic
and st. PETERSBURG. alarmists are in
Clined TO make much of the fact that
the minutes of Yesterdays fatefuI
meeting have not been signed by the
plenipOtentiaries Of the two powers. It
Is pointed out that either side could
still repudiae the agreement. but both
Uleuipotentiaries refuse to admit even
the possibility Of such a happening.
The Ships Saved.
New York. Aug. 3O-The interned
warships to which Japan has waived
her claim, and which Will be returned
To Russia, are:
The battleshiD Czarevitch. at Using
tau.
The cruiser AslloId. the gunboat
Mandjur and the torpedo destroyer
GrozoVoi, at Shanghai.
The cruiser Diana, at Saigon, French
Indo China.
The cruisers Aurora. Oleg and Jemt-
chug. at Manila.
The cruiser Lena, at Mare Island
!. san Francisco bay.