The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-05
FRANCE AND GERMANY
 MAY YET REACH ACCORD
IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY DELEGATE MOST TITALLY
 CONCERNED IN MOROCCO.

Declares That Settlement of the Con-
 trOversy Now Seems POssible-De-
 cIines to Make Known the Lines the
 Arrangement Will Take-France's
 Strength in the Conference shown by
 the Vote Saturday.
 Algeciras, March Alone of the dele gates having a most vital interest III the conference on Moroccan reIorlls said tonight that a settlement ot the controversy between France and Ger many now seemed possible, but ne oe- clined to make known the lines the ar rangement would take. However, the trend of recent events has indicated that if any settlement is reached IL would most likely be because France would make concessions with reIerehce to the bank question, and Germany Tn return would adopt less uncompro- missing attitude concerning the police.
 Paris. March 1.-The voting at Age ciras Saturday nthe proposition or SIT Arthur Nicolson, chief of the Brltlsh
  discussion of the Moroccan police ques- tion gives great satisfaction here, cnleI- ly because France has ranged with her a large majority of the powers, while Germany is among the small minority Public tension was such over the fran- vo-German controversy that the vote was welcomed both as success ana as showing that France was able 10 count upon the almost unbroken sup port of Europe. French officials have claimed for some time that if vote were possible it would give France a sweeping majority.
 It appears that yesterdays division did not produce recorded vote, yet the powers aligned themselves with sutil- cient precision to amount to Vote All the French journals give the dlvls- ion in the form of a vote, the eight vot- ing in the affirmative being France, Great Britain, Russia, Spain, Portu- gal, the United States, Italy and Hol- land; and the negative three being Ger many, Austria and Morocco. The offi- cials had even considered Austria as doubtful. and had Austria balloted in the affirmative the entire vote of Eu- rope and America would have been ranged on the side of France.
 The serni-official Temps seems to ac- cept the decisions of the conference as vote in favor of Frances proposals, saying:
 'The vote, though referring to ques- lion of procedure, is valuable to us from more than on view point. Not only have Great Britain, Spain, Russia and the United States clearly adhered to our ideas. which was foreseen, but Ita- ly. Belgium, Portugal and Holland un- hesitatingly recognized the loyalty of our proposition"
 The Temps correspondent at Alge- ciras, however, points out that the vote refers merely to procedure, signi- fying the desire of the conference to att tain a result. At the same time the character and import of the action of the delegates with reference to proced- ire should not be minimized."
 The result also affects the diplomatic status of the controversy. Germany wants to settle the bank question be- fore that of the police; but France does not wish to grant concessions on the bank until she is sure that Germany will make a reciprocal movement con- corning the police. Therefore, the de- cision of the conference to consider the nolice question requires that Germany shall say whether she is or is not pre- pared to change her attitude relative to the police. Germany's answer will thus determine whether France will yield on the bank question. The indications are that if Germany refuses to give way on the police France will not yield on the bank, thus accentuatlng the former deadlock by carrying it into the open conference.