The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-20
ACTION By CAR
HARD TO FA1HOM |!
80
Roosevelt, However, Accepts Cor
daily the Call for a Peace
Conference.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service .
Washington, Sept. 20. =. President
Roosevelt is disposed, his friends here
say, to accept cordially the representa-
tions of the Russian government as to
The call for a second peace conference
at The Hague.
What the president wants is con-
ference; let the credit for its meeting
20 wherever it should. !. ~ a.. -.
But the action of the car in calling
O second peace conference when the
president already had taken steps to
that end is the more remarkable when
one examines the correspondence which
the state department has had with for
eign powers, including Russia, on the
subject.
Knew Presidents Plans.
Before he communicated with the
governments Of Europe and America,
the ear knew the president, in note
dated Oct. 81 last year, had accepted
the request of the nterparliamentary
union, which held a meeting at st. Louis
during the worlds fair, ''To invite all
nations to send representatives to a
peace conference, and had announced
that "he would, at an early day, invite
: other nations, parties to The Hague
convention, to .reassemble with view
/, to pushing forward toward completion
, 11AO ~" VI ~ tb!i Ccloy UOSuu LAC 1IoSuC
! by considering questions which the first
| conference had left unsettled, with the
! express provision that there should be q
second conference
Gear We'll Informed.
The car knew, moreover, that after
negotiations with the powers, which ac-
/ American government issued second
: circular note in which it stated that
! altho the time of the meeting had to
be postponed out Of Difference to Rus
! STA, which had stated that it could not
participate in the conference while the
war; with Japan was in progress, still
the conference ''may be regarded as
assured so soon as the interested powers
are in a position to agree upon date
and place of meeting and to Join IN the
formulation Of general plans for dis
CUSTOM
Waited for Peace.
Thus all the preliminaries for the
proposed conference had been arranged
The president had allowed the matter
to TEST until peace was agreed upon
and then he directed the state depart
ment to prepare another circular note
in regard to the conference, which was
sent him for approval. The car die
not know the president had gone this
far. but he must have understood that
President Roosevelt was on the eve OF
action.
The state department is not Informed
of the character OF representation
which Baron Roser made few day.
ago to the president, but it is fully ex
pected that the Russian government ha
given assurances that there is no in
fention on its patr to cut the groun(
from under the feet Of the American
executive, and that it is simply takint
up the work where it was left off BY
the president IS last note.
What Gear Is Doing.
In other words, it's efforts are con
fined to discussion with the powers O.
the time and place Of meeting, and tn
subjects which will be discussed Whe1
these matters have been arranged the1
the government at The Hague, at tn
suggestion of the car, will issue lorna
Invitations to the powers to send rep
resentatives to a second conference.
It is stated, by those who claim t.
know the Russian position, that whe1
the facts become public it will be foun
that the czar has not sought to tax
from the president any of the credi
for the conference. 49,
Within two. weeks Of the signature o
the procotol which terminated hostili
ties between the United States an
Spain the car issued his call for tn
first peace conference.
In taking that step he was not move
4 by any desire to critieise the Unite
States for having gone to war. He nov
emphasizes this by acting in the il
terest of a second conference With
two weeks of the termination of hos
tilities between his own country an