The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-19
MOROCCAN CONFERENCE
 GOES ON WITHOUT HITCH
PLAN FOR REPRESSION OF CON- TR1lBAND ENTERING THE
 COUNTRY.

Agreement Practically Reached on
 This Important Questi0n--Fear Had
 Been Entertained That This Question
 Might Lead to Franco German Ten-
 siOn-Feeling Strengthened Among
 Delegates That the Results of the
 Convention Will be Satisfactory.
 Algeciras, Jan. 18.--The delegates to the Moroccan conference held private session lasting two hours this after noon. The session resulted practically in an agreement on the main lines of 8 plan for the repression of contraband entering Morocco. It was feared that this question of contraband might lead to Franco German tension as to who should carry out the oppressive meas ures proposed, but this happily appears to have been averted. The discussion was an informal one for the purpose of permitting the delegates to speak their minds without having their views off, cially recorded.
 The discussion proved to be most con- ciliatory, the only divergence being a statement made by the Moroccan dele gates that they could not permit the repression of or the hunting for arms without first referring the matter to the sultan.
 | The delegates were in accord upon the need of all the powers passing laws penalizing the introduction of contra band. They also tended towards plan under which Morocco would adopt rigid oppressive measures in cooperation with the powers. This followed prop osition submitted by Spain which was designed to reconcile the differences be- tween France and Germany | A committee of five was appointed to study and report on a final project at the session to be held Saturday. This committee is composed of Signor Nal musi Italian; Count Won Tattenbach, German; M. Regnault, French; Sidi Fl Mokhri, Moroccan, and Senor Cavallere, Spanish
 To-day's meeting has strengthened the feeling among the delegates that the results of the conference will be satisfactory.
 The day has been fruitful in meetings of various groups of delegates with a view to consolidating their different in- terests. One danger in the conference is considered to lie in the stiff attitude of Great Britain France, 1t seems, is disposed to discuss with Germany the basis of an agreement, but whether Great Britain will favor such an agree ment is not known However, nearly every one thinks that the longer the preliminaries are kept up the less will be the danger, and that time alone will aid in harmonizing the various differ enees.
 Active telegraphing is going on be- tween the ambassadors and their re- spective capitals. The French are not trusting to the land lines, but send their dispatches by fast torpedo boat to Algiers, where they are cabled to France. The Duwe of Almodovar, Spanish minister of foreign affairs, who is president of the conference, has a telegraph instrument in his private rooms for communication with Madrid
 Something of fiutter was caused among the diplomatists to-day by the news that smallpox exists here. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, who learned this fact from the authorities at Gibraltar, is- sued an order forbidding any one be- longing to his squadron to go ashore al Algeciras.