Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-29
MAKING PEACE TREATIES
Slow Process That Is Attended by Numerous Formalities.
MUCH CEREMONY AND ROUTINE.

JaDanese and Russian Commission
 CTS Will Probabl Reach Washins-
 ton With an Extensive Retinue.
 Much Delay Necessary Because
 Daily Reports Must Be Cabled to
 Home Omces.
 Washington has seen many meetings of distinguished foreign officials, but the meeting of the Japanese and Rus sian peace commissioners will be dis tinct novelty, says the Washington Post. The wars of the world in times gone by have not been terminated by peace negotiations at the American capital.
 There will be almost endless cere- mony and exhaustive routine in the meeting of these commissioners. The usages on such occasions are well de- fined. and two such punctilious nations as Japan and Russia will hardly omit any of these in their important negotia- tions. These negotiations will consume weeks and probably months. Con- pletely beaten in the field of battle at every point. Russia will seek to regain her prestige by gaining concessions in the diplomatic field which will mitigate her defeat. Russian diplomacy is con ceded to be the mosta agtutel lin the world. Japanese diplomacy in the past has not asserted itself with great cred 1t, and 1t remains to be seen if when the treaty of Washington is finally completed Japan has been as badly treated as she was in the treaty of Si- monoeeki. when, after whipping China as completely as she now ten years later has whipped Russia, Japan was forced to surrender nearly all of the fruits of her victory.
 After organization and the presenta- ton of credentials of the peace com missioners as we'll as a long army of secretaries and other aids and assist ants whom each country will send, the commissioners will probably adjourn for day or two and will then leave Washington for some spot more fa- vored by nature than is Washington in summer time.
 When the commissioners again meet each point of the protocol will be taken up in turn. The daily sessions will doubtless be short. for each day the commissioners will be compelled to prepare full reports of the days pro- ceedings for their home government, and as these reports must be cabled to St. Petersburg and to Tokyo in cipher more time will be expended in trans hitting and in receiving and decipher- ing the instructions from the respective home offices than in the actual work Of each session.
 The proceedings at the sessions will of course be carried on in French. It Is doubtful If the Russian commissioners can speak Japanese fluently enough to comprehend the fine shades of meaning of the words employed in diplomacy. and 1t Is equally doubtful if the Japa- nese know enough Russian. The treaty itself will probably he prepared first in French. Up 10 hundred years ago all treaties were drawn up in Latin. but in recent years they are. after being drafted ;n French. prepared in dupli- cate in the languages of the high con tracing parties" After the translations into the two languages have been made snd each translation has been accepted by the envoys as literally correct both in words and in spirit I final copy viii be prepared for signature.
 This copy is prepared on parchmen; in duplicate. the Russian treaty being written on one side of the sheet an the Japanese version in a parallel ca' umn. Tl,e f=~I .-er- iz -'nn a-7ia sr..