The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-03
Russian ambassador to France
VIII Call Peace Congress
TO Order.
ARMAMENT LIMITATION
WILL BE DISCUSSED
Arrangements Perfected for
Entertainment of Guests for
Three Months.

THE HAGUE, June 2.-The general
plan Of the proceedings at the second
peace conference probably will follow
closely the procedure of the first con-
press, held in 1899. Practically nothing
has been worked ont III advance. The
arrangements up TO the present time
simply cover the opening session, when
Mr. Nelidoff, the Russian Embassador
to France, will call the conference TO
order and make an address extending
his sovereign's greetings to the dele
gates. DR.. Jonkheer D. A. W, Van
Tets Van Gourdain, the Dutch Minister
for Foreign Affairs, will reply in an
address Of welcome on behalf of Queen
WiIhelmna. Thereafter it will remain
for the conference to decide how it will
proceed
II is safe to assume, however, that
the general line of procedure of the
former conference will be duplicated
The first thing in order will be the
appointment of committees to consider
the various subjects lnscribed upon the
Russian programme. These will hard
" number more than five. Unless the
question of the reduction OF limitation
of armaments is injected into the pro
ceedincs at the outset, in which even
the main struggle may be at once pre-
cipitated, the plenary body probably
Will not meet again for ten days or Z
fortnight, IN order that the COMMITTEES
may have an opportunity TO prepare
reports for submission. In general, i
is not expected that the full conferenc,
II. H. -;
the work Of the committees justihe
more frequent sessions.
Opening Session Public.
The opening session, it is expected
will be public to the extent, at least
OF admitting a few distinguished guest
and press representatives. but the ses
sions of the conference and Of the com
mittees will be secret.
The question of giving out publ
statement of the progress made will b
decided by the conference itself.
In 1899 Russia attempted to shrou
the proceedings in mystery and secrecy
but after a fortnight it was found tha
many mlschievOus rumors that severa
| ,semi-officlal statements were ISSUED
This year many of the delegates. real
izing the advantage of stopping tn
mouths of the sensation mongers. fav6
the issuance, daily if possible, of brie
semi i-official statement The Frenc
| language, as IN 1899, will be the oficia
language of the conference, althoug
the advent Of the South Americans an
the growing influence of English ma
| lead TO some relaxation of the rul
with regard 10 the debates, and may rt
suit In compromise such as was a,
ranged at the peace conference a
| Portsmouth, whereby the protocols. O
minutes, were inscribed in both Frenc
and English, although the French tex
was to be regarded as official In cas-
of dispute.
Official Entertainment.
The Government 3 official entertain
ment of the delegates will not belavisl
but rather will be in the same goo
| taste as its attitude with reference /
| the programme. Nothing will be al
ranged which could in any way inte,
Tere with the work of the conference
Rarliament has appropriated 10000
| gulden, (S40.000), for the reception o
the country S guests, but this covers th
| expenses in connection with the sitting
of the Hall Of the Knights In additio
the government will give an entertain
ment, the nature of which has not bee
| definitely determined. except that
will not be an evening reception. Nor
! probably it will take the form of da
! trip or excursion to some interestin
| historical spot. The municipality wi
! give formal reception. Queen Willie
nina out of her privy purse will ais
entertain the delegates as body.
| 1899 she received them in the old roya
palace at Amsterdam; but this year sh
| will offer her hospitality at Hetloo, he
| country seat, about an hour s run fror
! The Hague
Delegates Welcome Everywhere.
| Beyond these official functions ther
Will be much private entertaining b
the Dutch aristocracy, and among th
| diplomats themselves. In addition tn
delegates will not lack for distractio
in their idle moments, The city j
almost ideal in the summer. 1t lie
picturesquely in low green landscape
threaded with canals and dotted witt
characteristic Dutch windmills, and i
always colled by the brcezes of the sen
two miles away. The streets are Que
and the homes and villas of the Dutcl
aristocracy, bearing testimony to thu
| fortunes ammassed IN the East Indies
give ii an air of elegant cosmopolitan
ism. Minister Hill is extremely anxious
that the ceremony of the laying of th
cornerstone of the Palace of Peace, t.
which Andrew Carnegie has SUBSCRIBE
$l,500,000, shall take place before tin,
conference adiourns. The site of tn,
building has been chosen In park
called the Bcnoordenhoustche Pclder
but the plans have not yet been detln
itely approved
The lowest estimate of the duration
of the conference is six weeks, and th
belief is that it will be in session be
tween two and three months.