Show RUSSIA MAKES r THE FIRST MOVE Great Powers Invited to Attend a Second Hague Conference Early in the Coming Summer ROOT TAKEN BY SURPRISE PROPOSAL WILL PROBABLY BE ACCEPTED I Washington April 3 Unexpectedly the he Russian government today made another movement toward the recon recoil reconvention of The Hague conference when Baron Rosen Roson the Russian amassa ambassador dor dol presented to Secretary Root a proposal for the reconvention of the conference at The Hague early in the coming coining summer and indicated that the he Netherlands government had as assented assen assented sen t d to the ithe proposal It has been supposed that owing to tho the complexity of the problems involved In the ar arrangement arrangement arrangement of even a tentative pro gramme for the conference and tho the delays caused by the th necessity of per persuading persuading persuading the Swiss government to make the he time and for the ap approaching approaching approaching Red Cross convention con conform conform form orm as far as possible to The Hague project it would scarcely be possible for or the conference to assemble earlier than a late date next fall There were yere seasonable objections however to such a date and it was intimated that it t might be necessary to defer the con convention convention until next year Powers Will Wiil Accept The matter had been left in large larg part to the governments of Russia R and the Netherlands to adjust the first named because the proposal for the conference had originated with Em Emperor Emperor Emperor Nicholas and the latter for the theon on that the host should be con consulted consulted suited when it concerned a matter of dates for the conference The fact that hat they have agreed makes it probable proba probable ble ale that the other signatory powers to the original Hague convention which accepted the to attend the next conference will agree to the pro proposed proposed proposed posed date although the short period of time available will pill make it necee necessary sary stry for some of the powers which i ihne have given little attention to the thc sub subject subject Jeet recently to do some rapid diplo tic work pork in order to arrange pro pr I sires For it is certain that this pro proposed proposed i posed Russian as con conveyed conveyed ve ed to the state department today by Baron Rosen will while not meet meeting ing ins positive objections at least call forth some projects differing material materially ly in scope and detail from the Russian plan Russian A casaul review of the proposal dis discloses discloses closes clo nothing that is calculated to arouse opposition on the part of the United States government but unless the Algeciras conference has material materially ly modified the views of certain of the European great powers there is a notable disinclination to enter into any engagements that would further re restrict restrict restrict strict the thc independence of action of a power in international matters The first paragraph of the Russian is regarded as tending to toward toward toward ward the restriction in that it makes it easier for the powers to engage in mediation or arbitration and in conse consequence c nse quence enables a majority of the powers to force a settlement upon one of their number when it would much rather protract the use of sterner dip diplomatic diplomatic measures and even proceed to the verge of forcible compulsion Sev Soy Several Several eral of the Russian proposals are really in substance the same as ag those pro proposed proposed proposed posed by b The Hague conference itself as proper for consideration by another conference but there Is a suggestion of the last great war in the reference to a regulation for opening hostilities hostilities ties for the Russians have never admitted the legality in international law of the Japanese attack upon the Russian warships in harbor and at Port Arthur without it was asserted due du notice The suggestion relative to the recognition recognition recognition of private property rights in shipping and cargo will find ready favor with the state department for this government has been foremost in advocating this for many years |