The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-07-26
''vIvE La D0UNA0
CRIES BRITON
Premier Campbell Bannerman
Thrills the lnterparlia-
.mentary Union.
THE RUSSIANS WITHDRAW
Delegates Sent by SIav Parliament Say
They Now Have No Place There
and Leave for "Bat-
tlefieid."

London, July 25.-British Premier
CaInpbell-Bannerman at today'S meet
ing of the Lnterparliamentary union, in
q sudden access Of enthusiasm shouted
la Douma Est Morte, Vive La
Douma' (the Russian parliament is
dead, long live the Russian p~arliament),
Adherents of international peace from
all parliaments of Europe as we'll as
several of the western hemisphere We're
present, but hardly had the conference
opened when amidst q scene of consid.
cradle excitement, Professor kovalev-
sky, a member of the lower house Of
the Russian parliament, announced he
n his colleagues representing, until
yesterday, the youngest parliament in
the world, would be obliged to with
draw in consequence of dissolution OF
the body they We're officially appointed
to represent.
There were about 500 delegates pres
ent, the American representation be.
ing headed by Congressman Richard
Bartholdt, while William j. Bryan
occupied a seat on the platform.
Lord Weardale opened the congress
his preliminary sentences Of welcome
being specially addressed to the Rus
sian delegates, whereupon the delegates
rose in a body and heartily cheered the
Russian delegation.
Weardale also incidentally mentioned
President Roosevelt as having been
associated with them in the work Of
peace.
Premier Campbell Zimmerman in re-
ply reminded his hearers that King
Edward had always been a great ad-
vocate Of peace. The British govern
ment, he said, was in entire sympathy
with the object of the conference, whose
work had already aroused m the
nations a strong feeling in favor OF
peace. The world had far too long
been nothing less h a huge mill
tary camp.
Greetings to Russians.
The premier especially greeted the
members of the Russian parliament
present and also paid a tribute to En-
peror Nicholas, who had done SO much
towards the enhancement of the ideas
of peace. 1t could, he thought, be safe
ly asserted, the Russian parliament, al
though dissolved, was sure to again
come into existence. In conclusion the
premier said he hoped at the next
peace conference at The Hague a gem
eral act would be drawn up for sub
mission of all questions Of dispute,
without restriction, to The Hague trib-
unal for the universal good of hu-
mainly.
Count Apponyi, Hungarian minister,
followed. At his suggestion a tele-
gram was sent to King edward as fol-
lows:
Tho interparliamentary conference
received the kings adhesion with pro-
found gratitude. May he long be spared
to promote the welfare Of his people
and the cause of international peace"
Then came the most mo-
ment of the opening session. Professor
Kovalevsky rose and in a voice some
what broken with emotion he an
ounce the necessity for withdrawal
of the members Of the Russian parlia-
nent. The announcement was met with
a storm of protests and shouts of NO"
NO, and attempts on every side to
induce the Russians to remain, but
the latter insisted they no longer had
any official status ana must leave Eng
land for Russia this evening n re-
turn to the Battlefield"
The Russian delegates then left the
hail and the conference settled down
to business.
Why Conference Is Held.
This session Of the Interparliament-
airy union has been called in order to
pass upon the reports filed in June by
the two commissions which were ap-
pointed at the Brussels session last
August. 1t was considered wise to have
an extraordinary session of the union
SO that it's whole weight might be back
OF the request for the conversion Of
the second Hague conference INTO a
permanent body, when this proposition
is presented to the members of that
conference next May, in the form of a
report approved unanimously by the
members of the interparliamentary
commission.
This will be of course the most i'm
portant point on the program, but hard
IL less important is the report Of the
commission on a model arbitration
treaty. That commission, like the one
Oh international congress, is composed
Of very eminent men.
Iii addition to the question Of limita-
ton Of ornaments the reorganization
Of the Interparlia1nentary union will
be discussed.
The report of the commission on in
tcrnational favors the reor-
g~aniZation of the union in such a form
that this body in due time become a
sort of international house Of represen-
t~atives, whose members come from the
pNrliaments, and capable Of co-operat-
ing with the permanent conference at
the Hague, who's members will be Sc
lected by the executives of each ma
ton.
At the present time there are about
200 members of the interparliamentary
union. The American delegation will
probably advocate the adoption Of an
aggressive campaign for the enlarge
ment of the union SO that within, say,
ten years from this time it will include
In it's membership a majority in num-
bers and in strength of mind in every
national parliament. This is already
true in a number of nations, for in
stance in Hungary, in Belgium and
perhans i'll France. AS Yet there are
no groups of the interparliamentary
union in any of the South American
parliament into this union. During the
next few years, a proposition to hold
its session in 1910, which is the CEN
tennial Of the independence Of South
America, in Bogota, Colombia, will be
placed o. the program of the London
conference upon the initiative of Senor
Diego Mendoza, a member of the house
OF representatives Of the Colombian
cnnrracs-