The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-21
CREATE FOUR
committees
AT HAGUE
ARBITRATION, LAND WAR, MARI
TIME WAR, GENEVA CON-
VENTION.
GETTING TO WORK SLOWLY
Emperor Nicholas and Queen Will
heImina Thank the Conference
for Messages.

THE HAGUE, June 20.-The sec
ond session of the peace conference,
to complete the organization and
create the four general committees,
where the actual work will be done,
began behind closed doors at
O'Clock this afternoon. The pro-
gram was carefully arranged in ad-
vance in order to avoid the possi-
bility of surprises being sprung.
The full committee organization
was as follows:
First = Arbitration: President,
Bourgeois, France; honorary presi-
dents, Merry Won Kapos-Mere, Aus
tria; Sir Edward Fry, England; Ruy
Barbosa, Brazil; vice presidents, DR..
kriege, Germany; Signor Pompili,
Italy; Senior Estava, Mexico.
Secondhand war: President, M.
Barnaert, Belgium and Herr Asser,
The Netherlands; honorary presi-
dents, Baron Marischall Won Bieber-
stein, Germany; General Horace Por-
ter, United States; Marquis de Sove-
raj, Portugal; vice presidents, Con-
stantin B. Run, Denmark; DR.. Beldi-
man, Roumania; Dr.. Carlin, Switzer-
land.
Third-Maritim war: President,
Count Tournielli, Italy; honorary
presidents, Joseph H. Choate, United
States; Tseing LANG, China; Turk
uaan Bey, Turkey; vice presidents,
Herr Hammersk jold, Sweden; DR..
Drago, Argentina; Baron d. DIES
ternelles de Constantine, France.
Fourth-Geneva conventions: Pres
ident, Professor De Martens, honora-
ry presidents, Senior Don de Villa y
Urrutia, Spain; M. Kurachi, Japan
vice presidents, Sir Ernest M. Satow,
England; Professor Lammasch, Aus
tria; DR.. Hagerup, Norway.
NJ. Nelidoff communicated to the
conference dispatches from Emepror
Nicholas and Queen Wilhelminia,
thanking the conference for its mes
sages sent on the opening day, greet
ing the delegates and expressing hope
for a successful result of their deli
berations.
All of the plenipotentiaries later
presented their credentials. The
Chinese ambassador wrote that he
would be unable to be present be-
cause of the state of his health and
he will be replaced by John W. Fos-
ter.
The rules of the conference, in
Guiding publicity for the plenary ses-
sions, were presented and unani-
mously adopted.
In order to prevent friction at the
outset, the question of the Limitation
of ornaments was ignored Temporal
rily, though there is a well defined
plan to bring it up at the first favor.
able opportunity in the form of {
proposition to reiterate the resolu
ton adopted by the last conference
recommending that the government:
again study the subject and postpone
its consideration until the next con
ference None of the Spanish
American governments except Mex
leo seem prepared to submit anything
in their interest. The conference tt
them appears to be confined to thu
extension of the principle of arbitra
ton and the Drago doctrine.
The delay in getting the confer
ence under way creates the suspicion
that the leaders are deliberately de
laying the preliminaries in the be
lief that by giving the great power
more time, now that they understand
each other, the work will be facili
tated later. The session today Taste,
only an hour.
The date of the next plenary SEES
sion has not been fixed. The dele
gates are subject to the call of M
Nelidoff.