Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-09-07
LEARN TELEGRAPH,
AND r. r. ACCOUNTING
:. EATY COMPLETED

-. EATY COMPLETED
CONVENTION COMPRISES PREAM.
BILE AND SEVENTEEN ARTICLES.
Provides for Exchange of Ratifications
Within Fifty Days-Newspaper Men
and Photographers Not Allowed to
Be Present at Signing.
Portsmouth, Sept. 4.-From an of.
fetal source the Associated Press is
Informed that the peace treaty is COM
pleted. 1t consists of a preamble and
seventeen articles, the substance of
all of which has been given in the
Associated Press dispatches. But
there were still differences about the
wording of the protocol of the last sit
ting, which must be signed before the
treaty itself can be signed. The Japa-
nese presented protocol to which
differences, however, are expected to
be Strengthened before noon, and it
seems quite possible the treaty will
be signed this afternoon. Mr.. DeMar-
tens, who is extremely anxious to get
back to Russia, has engaged passage
on La Touraine, sailing from New
York Thursday, and leaves here on
Wednesday.
The seventeenth, and concluding, ar
ticle OF the treaty provides that the
exchange of notifications shall occur
within fifty days after its signature by
the plenipotentiaries. The Russian
ratification will be communicated to
the Japanese government by the
French minister at Toxic and Mr..
Meyer, the American ambassador at
st. Petersburg, will communicate the
Japanese ratification to the Russian
government. If the Russians are
ready the treaty will be signed this
afternoon at O'Clock, this date hav
ing been suggested by Baron Komura,
otherwise the treaty will be signed to-
morrow morning. The Japanese hope
to get away tomorrow.
One of the articles of the treaty pro-
vides for the protection of private
rights and property acquired under
Russian control in south Sakhalin and
in Dalny, Port Arthur and other places
in the Lao Tung peninsula. The Rus
sian government has had innumerable
petitions on this subject. Several Of
them are from Americans, who held
concessions in southern Sakhalin.
While full synopsis OF the treaty will
be cabled to the governments of the
two countries, the actual text will not
be known at Toxic or st. Petersburg
until the plenipotentiaries arrive. M.
White will personally convey the text
to st. Petersburg and Baron Komura
to Toxic. This is the real reason why
both are anxious to get home as soon
as possible as the treaty does not go
into force until the two emperors have
signed. To avoid the delay of ex-
change of documents, which would in
volve six weeks at least, official mott
fication of the final approval by the
emperors will be made through neu-
trails, the United States in the case of
Japan and France in the case of Rus
STA. The text of the treaty will not be
made public at Portsmouth. If it
ever is it will be after it has received
the approval of the two emperors. NJ.
White, when questioned upon this sub
ject by the Associated Press, re-
marked, laughingly: "You are at lib
erty to announce both in Europe and
America that we are willing to make
the treaty of Portsmouth public as
soon as the new Anglo-Japanese treaty
is given to the world
The Japanese are proving great
sticklers for words. They cling
tenaciously to their ideas. Careful
preparation and methods have been
the secret of their successes on
land and sea and in their diplomatic
struggles at Portsmouth the same
qualities have been displayed. In the
sittings of the conference, Baron Ko-
mura always stated the Japanese po-
sition upon a given point briefly, but
Will SiSdl care, anu Wueu WI. WltlS :,
whose method was entirely different,
would try to draw out explanations,
he would stick doggedly to the state
ment he had made.
The signing of the treaty is to be
most exclusive affair. The Japanese
objected to the presence of any news
payer correspondents or photographers
and it has therefore been decided that
besides the plenipotentiaries and their
secretaries there shall be present only
Assistant Secretary PIERCE, represent
ing the president; Governor McLane
of New Hampshire, the mayor of
Portsmouth, Admiral Mead command
er of the navy yard, and the command
ers of any United States warshirs in
the harbor. in this case ogi captain
Winslow of the Nayeownr. Nr. PIERCE
has procured four ordinary quiz pens.
with one of which each of the pleni-
pOtentiarieS will sign