The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-03
Russia and Japan Have Selected
Their PIenip0tentiaries.
Names Are Announced by Pres
ident Roosevelt.
MURAVIEFF AND ROSEN
To Act for Russia, Komura and
Takahira for Japan.
Exact Date and Place Are Yet
to Be Settled.

~ A1O 0ObJAOus
Oyster Bay, N. z, July 3.-Ohicial
announcement is made by President
Roosevelt of the names of the Russian
and japanese envoys to the Washing
ton peace conference. The character
and ability of the men selected by
both belligerents is an earnest of the
desire of their respective governments
to conclude, If possible, the tragedy
being enacted in the far east. The
plenipotentiaries are:
Russian = Ambassador Muraviefs.
formerly minister of justice and now
ambassador to Italy, and Baron
Rosen, recently appointed as ambas-
sador to the United States to succeed
Count Cassini.
Japanese-Baron Komura, minister
of foreign affairs, and Kogoro Taxa
hira, minister to the United States.
BY direction of the president, Sec
| retary Loeb made the formal an
nouncement in the following state
ment:
| The president announces that the
RUSSIAN and Japanese governments
have notified him that they have ap-
pointed the plenipotentiaries to meet
here as soon after the first OF August
/ as possible. The two Russian pleui-
potentiaries are Ambassador Mura-
v1en, formerly minister of justice and
now ambassador at Rome, and AM
potentiaries are Baron Komura, now
minister of foreign affairs, and Min
lister Takahira.
1t is possible that each side may
send one or more additional represen-
| tatlVeS. The plenipotentiaries of both
Russia and Japan will be entrusted
with full power to negotiate and con-
clude a treaty of peace. subject of
| course to ratification by their respec-
tive home governments.
/ A day or two ago the Russian and
/ japanese governments formally commu-
nicated to President Roosevelt the
names of the plenipotentiaries they had
respectively selected. Acting as an in
ltermediary, the president communicated
the names of the Japanese ENJOYS to
the st. Petersburg government and
those of the Russian representatives to
the government at Toxic. Having re-
cefved from both governments assul :
anceS that the selections were satisfac-
tory, the president, according to his
agreement with the belligerents, author
ized the public announcement of the en-
voys.
Some delay was occasioned in the Sc
lection of the plenipotentiaries by the
inSistence of Japanese that the ENJOYS
of both governments be clothed with
} full power to conclude peace and to ne
gotiate a permanent treaty. The Jap
anese government indicated pointedly
that the emperor would not permit his
envOyS to enter upon a tentative confer
ence in which Japan was to define it's
terms and then let Russia decide wheth-
er the conferees should proceed with
their deliberations. The Toxic govern
ment insisted that the plenipotentiaries
should have conferred on them treaty
making powers and that the negotia-
tions should be entered upon in spirie
of perfect sincerity. Such, too, was the
position taken by President Roosevelt.
| hof clothing
| the envoys with ample authority to act
for their respective governments could
a lasting peace be achieved He strongly
urged the ST. Petersburg government to
J accede to what was regarded as rea-
IsonabIe proposition of Japan. That he
: was successful in his presentation of the
matter to the Russian emperor Is 1ndt-
Gated clearly in the statement whlcn ne
l | has issued.
The presidents announcement practical
Iv concludes the preliminary negotiations
for peace Minor details rema1n am yee ,s 70 ps Is
| be assured. While no absolute cate Tor the
meeting of the envoys has been flxeo "a. !.
will be held in Washington about the first
Raron Rosen already is en- route to the
| United States, his coming being to succeed
l Count Cassini as the Russians ambassa-
DOR to this c0qnsry II 1 Is oon 'fo 9o,
the United States, accompanied py, con:
siderable staff of secretaries. clerks aue
Interpreters. 1AG sJEp1AtcSS AtA@te ~
= OFFICIALS and attaches, aded by Bafor
/ | Komura, it is expected, will leave Japan IT
time to reach Washington by the first o.
August.
e the place of holding the sessions OF ths
{ Conference For the purpose of organizar
= fion and to determine upon plans for tht
|, future, the plenipotentiaries will meet i
: | Washington, but it is regarded as highly
: probable that at an early date thereaftel
S they will adjourn to hold the business ses
sions of the conference in some city on tbs
North Atlantic seaboard. In this connec
J: ton the word there" in the official an
+: nouncement issued today is likely to b
: misunderstood. 1t means merely in tn1'
| country"
!, The sessions of the conference. of course
| will not be held in Oyster Bay, although
it is expected now that the ENJOYS of th'
: two comforting powers will come to Oyster
2 Bay to pay their respects to Presiden
t Roosevelt, and to receive his greetings
- This trip to the presidents home probably
3 will be made in two warships, the May
flower and the Dolphin being under con
:: | sideration for the mission