The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-09
NEWS OF THIS WEEK
MANY MEETINGS TO BRING ABOUT
 PEACE.
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 Many meetings which win hav9 for their object the estabiishment and preservation of peace. both industrial and political. will be held during, the present week.
 While the sixteenth international peace congress is In session at Munich, Bavaria, from Monday until Saturday, representatives of all the Central American republics will meet in Washington to arrange for a Central American peace congress.
 Monday a delegation of forty-five representatives of the striking teleg- raphers from various sections of the country will meet in New York in an effort to reach some sort of a peace agreement with the employing com panies.
 Secretary Taft will sail from Seat tie next Wednesday for the Orient on a journey which will not end until he has made a complete circuit of the globe.
 Saturday a special commission of tariff experts will sail from New York to England.
 The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will open at Saratoga Monday and continue throughout the week.
 Preparations for the international peace congress at Munich already have been completed by committee Of 200 chosen from among the most distin- gulshed residents of the city. The President of the committee Is pr. Heinrich Hamburger counsellor of he Supreme Court and a professor of in- ternational law at the University of Munich. The American Peace Society will be represented at the Congress by its secretary, pr. Benjain F. True- blood.
 At the invitation of Assistant Secre- tary of State Adee the ministers from Central American countries to Wash inEton will meet at the American capi- al Monday to discuss plans for the calling of a Central American peace congress. When the plan was preached some time ago, 1t was found that only one of the ministers was clothed by his Government with power to enter into any such agreement. but all of them have communicated with their home offices since that time.
 The committee of forty-five representing the striking telegraph operators meet In New York Monday in anticipation of the regular meeting of the board of directors of the Western Union which is scheduled for the following day. The strike leaders have said that they have very hope full feeling regarding the outcome or the committees visit to the city. The company officials, however. have held out little hope that any good will re- suit, General Superintendent Brooks informed the committee members several days ago that it would be merely a waste of time and money for them to visit New York
 The special tariff commission which will sail from New York next Saturday will be headed by assistant secretary of the treasury James B. Reynolds. The committee will make a special investigation in England. France ana Germany of the conditions governing export market values and declarations to invoices.
 An extraordinary session of the dominican congress has been called by president Caceres. for September 10. to deal with the latest proposition for the contract for s20. coo. .0O0 loan from Kuhn, Loeb and Company of New York and to authorize the calling of a con vention to amend the constitution and to appropriate bonds for augmentlns the police.