Chapter II UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (États Unis d'Amérique) The members of the Conference. Andrew Dickson White, LL.D., L.H.D.; Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, 1855-1856; State Senator of New York, 1863-1867; President of Cornell University, 1867-1885; Special Commissioner of the United States to the Republic of Santo Domingo, 1871; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany, 1879-1881; to Russia 1892-1894; Ambassador to Germany since 1897. President of the American Commission, Honorary President of the First Committee, and member of the Second and Third Committees. Seth Low, LL.D.; Mayor of Brooklyn, 18811885; President of Columbia University, New York, since 1890. Member of the Third Committee, and of the Committee on the Final Act. Stanford Newel; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Netherlands, since 1897. Member of the Second Com mittee. Captain Alfred T. Mahan, LL.D., D.C.L., United States Navy, appointed to the Navy, 1856; Lieutenant, 1861; Lieutenant-Commander, 1865; President of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., 1886– 1893; Member of the Naval Advisory Strategy Board, 1898. Member of the First and Second Committees. Captain William Crozier, United States Army; Captain in the Ordnance Department since 1890; inventor of a disappearing gun carriage, wire wrapped rifle, and an improved ten-inch gun; Major and Chapter II Inspector General of United States Volunteers, 1898. Member of the Second and Third Committees. Frederick William Holls, D.C.L., Counselor at Law; Member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, 1894. Secretary and Counsel of the American Commission, and a member of the Third Committee, as well as of the Comité d'Examen. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (Autriche-Hongrie) Count Rudolph von Welsersheimb; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgium in 1888; Privy Councillor and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, since 1895; Ambassador Extraordinary to The Hague for the purposes of this Conference. Honorary President of the Second Committee and a member of the Third Committee. Alexander Okoliscanyi von Okoliscna; Privy Councillor and Chamberlain of His Majesty the Austrian Emperor; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Stuttgart, 1889, and to the Netherlands in 1894. Member of the Third Committee. Gaetan Mérey de Kapos-Mére; Councillor of State and Chief of Cabinet in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vice-President of the Third Committee of the Conference and a member of the Second Committee, and of the Committee on the Final Act. Professor Heinrich Lammasch, Professor of Law at the University of Vienna. Member of the Second Chapter II and Third Committees, as well as of the Comité The members d'Examen. of the Conference. Victor von Khuepach zu Ried, Zimmerlehen und Haslburg; Lieutenant-Colonel on the General Staff; Military Expert. Member of the First and Second Committees. Count Stanislas Soltyk, Captain; Naval Expert. Member of the First and Second Committees. BELGIUM (Belgique) Auguste Beernaert, Minister of State, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Belgium. President of the First Committee, and a member of the First and Second Committees. Count de Grelle Rogier; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium to the Netherlands. Member of the First and Third Committees. Chevalier Descamps, Senator of the Kingdom of Belgium. Member of the Second and Third Committees, and of the Committee on the Final Act, and a member and reporter for the Comité d'Examen. CHINA (Chine) Yang Yu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Courts of St. James and Vienna, former Minister to Washington, Lima, and Madrid; Mandarin of the second class, wearing the peacock feather. Lou-Tseng-Tsiang, Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg since 1892. Hoo-Wei-Teh, Secretary of Legation at St. Peters burg, formerly at London, Washington, and Madrid ; Chapter II Chargé d'Affaires at St. Petersburg and Vienna; Mandarin of the third class. The three Chinese delegates were members of the Second and Third Committees. Ho-Yen-Cheng, Councillor of Legation, assistant delegate. DENMARK (Danemark) Frederick E. De Bille, Minister at Washington, 1867-1872; at Stockholm, 1872-1890; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to London since 1890. Vice-President of the Third Committee. Colonel J. G. F. von Schnack, former Minister of War. Member of the First and Second Committees. SPAIN (Espagne) The Duke of Tetuan, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs. Honorary President of the Second Committee. W. Ramirez de Villa-Urrutia, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brussels; Plenipotentiary for the negotiation of peace with the United States in Paris, 1898. Member of the Second and Third Committees. Arturo de Baguer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Hague. Member of the Second Committee. Colonel Count de Serrallo, Military Attaché of the Spanish Legation at Brussels; Military Expert. Member of the First Committee. Chapter II The members of the Conference. FRANCE (France) Leon Bourgeois, formerly Minister of Public Instruction and Prime Minister of France. President of the Third Committee and of the Comité d'Examen. Georges Bihourd, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Hague. Member of the First Committee. Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, formerly Chargé d'Affaires at London; member of the Chamber of Deputies. Vice-President of the Third Committee, and Secretary of the Comité d'Examen. Rear-Admiral Pephau, French Navy; Naval Expert. Member of the First and Second Committees. Brigadier-General Mounier, French Army; Military Expert. Member of the First and Second Committees. Louis Renault, Professor of Law at Paris. Member of the Second and Third Committees, and a member and reporter of the Committee on the Final Act. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (Grande Bretagne et Sir Julian Pauncefote, since raised to the Peerage as Baron Pauncefote of Preston, Ambassador to the United States. Honorary President of the Third Committee of the Conference and of the Comité d'Examen. Sir Henry Howard, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Hague. Member of the Third Committee. |