Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-07-23
Dramatic Scene at Open
: ing London Peace
Congress
Premier Campbell Waves q Banner
and Starts Cheers for Rsvoitina
Parliament Of Russia.

London, July 23-The fourteenth
conference Of the interparliamentary
union opened In the Royal Gallery Of
the palace Of Westminster today. Ad-
herents OF international peace from
all Of the parliaments of Europe as
well as those Of several of the west
ern hemispheres are present.
Hardly had the conference opened
when amidst a scene Of considerable
excitement Professor Maxim Goval-
estsky. a member of the lower house
of the Russian parliament, announced
that he and his colleagues, represent
ing until yesterday the youngest par
Lament In the world. would be obliged
to withdraw in consequence of the
revolution Of the body which they were
officially appointed to represent
During his address to the delegates,
Premier Campbell seized banner sud-
denly in an excess OF enthusiasm and
shouted:
la Douma est morte, viva la
Douma." (The Russian parliament is
dead; long live the Russian parlia-
ment)
The delegates rose TO their feet and
storm of cheering ensued for a couple
OF minutes.
This session of the interparliamen-
tary 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 extra ordinary session Of the
union so that it's whole weight might
be SsfSk of the request for the conver-
sion of the Second Hague conference
into permanent body. when this
proposition Is presented to the mem
bers of that conference next May in
the form of report approved unani-
mously by the members OF the Inter-
parliamentary commission.
Frame Model Arbitration Treaty.
This will be of course the most i'm
portant point on the program OF the
London conference, but hardly less i'm
portant is the report of the commits
sion on n model arbitration treaty
That commission like the one on In
ternational congress- liz composed Of
very eminent men. It's president is
Ernst Won Plener ex-minister of
finance OF Australia He was for
many years the leader of the German
party in the Austrian parliament This
commission had to grapple with these
problems:
I. How to draw treaty OF arbitra-
tion which can be executed by all ma
tions without holding the progressive
countries back to the position of the
least advanced powers.
2. How to draw treaty which can
hope to be approved by the presi-
dent and senate of the United States,
without forfeiting the favor Of the
great powers OF Europe. that have
adopted as their stan lard the Anglo
French treaty OF arbitl ,tion.
This latter problem ,rose from the
failure OF the Hay treaties to meet
with the approval Of the United States
in the form in which they were nego-
tiated The Hay treaties proposed to
refer to arbitration all questions OF a
legal nature provided they do not af-.
fe"' '"e vital interest or the honor Of
either of the contracting powers or
the interests of a third power. sub.
sequent clause was inserted which pro-
vided that when anv particular con-
troversy might arise a subsequent
agreement should be entered into be.
tween the contracting powers. before
nrt bn ha1
arbitration under the terms Of this
treaty.
The senate struck out the word
agreement" and substituted the word