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hope) opened the congress with
! sentences Of welcome to the Russian
delegates, whereupon the delegates rose
in q body, and, turning toward the
delegation Of the late parliament,
cheered them to the echo.
| Lord Weardale also incidentally men
toned President Roosevelt as having
been associated with them in the work
Of peace.
| Premier Campbell -Bannerman, in re-
ply, reminded his hearers that King
Edward had always been great adj
vocate, Of peace. The British govern
with the Sob Object es Of the coSferencs,
whose work had already aroused among
the nations q strong feeling in favor
of peace. Tho world had far too long
| beeen nothing less than huge military
camp.
British Premier Enthusiastic.
| !. The premier greeted the members of
the Russian parliament present and also
paid a tribute to Emperor Nicholas,
who had done so much towards the en-
hancement Of ideas Of peace. It could,
| he thought, be safely asserted that the
Russian parliament, .altho dissolved,
vas va s., sure IRE to come again into existence;
enthusiasm, shouted: Ella douma est
morte! Viva Ia douma. - 1.-THE Rus
sian parliament is dead. Long live the
Russian parliament.)
@. Storm Of Cheering.
The delegates rose to their feet and
a storm of cheering continued for two
| minutes. - D..
In conclusion the premier said he
hoped that at the next peace confer
ence at The Hague, a general act would
be drawn up providing for the submits
sion Of all questions of dispute, with
out restrictions, to The, Hague tribunal
for universal good of humanity.
Count Apponyi of Hungary said that
the he British premier's appeal for the re;
their. military budgets could not be
fruitless. The parliaments must follow
suit. On Count Apponyi IS suggestion, a
telegram was sent to King Edward as
follows: -, ~ "a. - n.
"The interparliamentary conference
received the kings adhesion with pro-
spared to promote the welfare Of his
people. and the cause Of international
peace.'
Russians Withdraw.
Then came the most dramatic mo-
ment of the opening Of the session.
Professor Kovalevski rose, but some
minutes elapsed before he could gain a
hearing, so prolonged was the cheering.
Finally, in voice somewhat broken
with emotion, he announced the neces-
slty for the withdrawal Of the mem
bers OF the Russian parliament. He
said: -Ir - =
"We came here in behalf Of the Rus
sian nation to assist in the great. work
Of the conference. The Russian people
| desire peace. The mission Of the Rus
sian parliament was to- snatch great
people from a regime Of violence and
substitute for it a sense of reality, lib
! erty and Justice. We hoped to take an
active part in your work, but our mis-
sion comes to a sudden end, as our par
Lament having been dissolved, we are
| no longer official representatives. Our
sympathy remains. We return home
with the determination to continue the
great struggle for freedom. liberty and
| The announcement Of the withdrawal
| of the Russian delegates was met with
! No!' and attempts on every side to
induce the Russians to remain, but the
latter insisted they no longer had any
! official status and must leave England
t TOR Kpss t4 fh1s evening and return to
| The Russian delegates then left the
hall and the conference then settled
|
Purpose Of Conference.
| This session of the Interparliamen-
tary union has been called to pass upon
the reports filed in June by the two
commissions which were appointed at
the Brussels session last August. It
was considered wise to have an extraor-
binary session Of the union, SO that it's
whole weight might be back of the
I r1n1loaf ho ~ h.
| ond Hague conference into perma-
nent body, when this proposition is pre-
sented to the members Of that confer
ence next May, in the, form Of report
approved unanimously by the members
OF the interparliamentary commission.
| Model for Arbitration. +,.
This will be, of course, the most i'm
London conference, but hardly less i'm
portant is the report of the commission
on model arbitration treaty. That
commission is composed Of very emf
nent men. Its president is Ernst Won
Plener, former minister of finance of
Austria. He was for many. years the
leader of the German party in the Aus
trian parliament. This commission has
had to grapple with these problems:
! First-How to draw treaty Of arbi-
tration which can be executed by all
nations, without holding the progressive
! countries back to the position Of the
| least advanced powers.
! Second-How to draw treaty which
can hope to be approved by the presi-
dent and senate Of the United States,
without FORGETTING the favor Of the
great powers of Europe, that have
adopted as their standard the Anglo
French treaty Of arbitration.
| This latter problem arose from the
failure Of the Hay treaties to meet with
the approval Of the United States in
the form in which they were negoti-
ated.
| A difference Of opinion on the ques-
ton Of the limitation of ornaments is
likely to arise. There is considerable
party in every national parliament
which has been laying emphasis upon
the limitation Of ornaments, and it is
PROBABLE that the intellectual struggle
at. London will center around this prop
osition.
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