The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-28
 NEGOTIATIONS Komura and Takahira at
 Oyster Bay. LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT Approaching Conference Is
 Discussed. NsstAes Roosevelt Nor His Oriental visitors Would Talk for Pusli-
 cation as to Nature of
 Their Consultatiqa.

Rooseyelt entertained at luncheon to- day Baron J. Komura, Minister of Foreign Affairs. and Kogoro Takahira, Minister to the United States. the Jap anese envoys to the Washington peace conference Subsequently he had a long interview with them at which all phases of the approaching negotiations were considered. Neither the Prcsi- dent nor his Japanese visitors cared to discuss for publication the nature of their conference except In the most general terms.
 Arranxements for the visit to Presi- dent Roosevelt were made yesterday by Minister Takahira. The Presiednt ex- pressed his pleasure at the prospect of meeting again Baron Komura, whom he had known several years ago and who. in addition. was fellow graduate of Harvard College.
 Baron Komura and Minister Taka- hira arrived here on the 12:20 o'clock Long Island Railroad train, to which had been attached a special chair car for their accommodation. The envoys were driven directly to Sagamore HILL They remained with the President until 3:30 o'clock and then were driven to the station. The train left at 4:20 o'clock for New York.
 Itinerary of Enyoys.
 Washington. July 27.-Arrangements were completed here today for convey ing the peace envoys of Russia and Japan from New York to Oyster Bay. where they will be received by the President and from there to Ports mouth. N. H. The details were ar ranged at a conference participated in by Acting Secretary of State Pierce. who has been commissioned by the President to arrange for the meeting of the envoys; Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling. Rear Admiral Converse, chief of the bureau of navigation; Rear Admiral Sigsbee. commanding the squadron of the North Atlantic fleet. from which vessels have been selected for the conveyance of the pienipoten- tiastes, srd sCotnmander Winsiow of the Mayfiower. According to the of- hcial Announcement made the Russian plenipotentiaries and suite will embark k on the cruiser Chattanooga at New York at a. m. on August the Jap anese plenipotentiaries embarking at the same point on the cruiser Tacoma an hour later, arriving at Oyster Bay within half an hour of one another.
 After the luncheon to be given by the President on the Mayfiower is over and the President has departed, the Japanese plenipotentiaries and suite will embark on the Dolphin, the Rus sian plenipotentiaries and suite re- maining on the Mayfiower, when they will proceed to Portsmouth, conveyed by the cruiser Galveston, which will arrive of Oyster Bay on the evening of August 4. A slow run north will be made, so that Portsmouth will be reached on the morning of the 7th, where they will be received by the ad- miral commanding the Portsmouth navy yard. within which the negotia- tions for peace are to be conducted.
 Assistant Secretary Pierce will go from New York to Oyster Bay on the Sylph. The three cruisers are sister ships and are now being prepared for the coming mission, having just ar rived from France in company with the cruiser Brooklyn. which brought back the body of John Paul Jones.
 Rear Admiral 'Sigsbee. to whose squadron the Tacoma. Chattanooga and Galveston are attached, returned to New York today and will issue the necessary orders to carry into effect the program announced