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No. 34 | Vienna, 19 August 1904 — 8 Elul 5664. | 8th Year.

The Session of the Greater A.-C.

(Report of the Congress Bureau.)

On Tuesday, 16 August 1904, the session of the Greater A.-C. was opened. By the forenoon the following members of the A.-C. had arrived:

From Austria: Dr. S. Krenberger (Vienna). From Galicia: Adolf Stand. From Bohemia: Karl Resek. From Hungary: Chief Rabbi Roth (Pápa). From Germany: Dr. Bodenheimer, Dr. Klee, Dr. Friedemann. From Italy: Dr. Felice Ravenna. From Servia: Dr. Alkalay. From Switzerland: Dr. Farbstein. From France: Dr. Alexander Marmorek. From Bulgaria: Dr. Rimalowsky. From Denmark: Dr. Fränkl. From Roumania: Samuel Pineles, Dr. Lippe and Dr. Moskoviz. From England: Mr. Greenberg. From Russia: J. L. Goldberg, Dr. Bruck, Dr. Jasynowski, Dr. Robinsohn, Dr. Jacobsohn, Ing. Ussischkin, Dr. Tschlenow, Dr. Jelski, Prof. Gregor Belkowsky. From America: Prof. Rich. Gottheil and J. de Haas.

Dr. Kahn, in the name of the Smaller A.-C., bade the gentlemen present a most cordial welcome and exhorted them to take up the heavy work of this hour in the spirit of Dr. Herzl. The task now, he said, was to build upon what already exists, and to work by extending and completing it.

Architect Marmorek then delivered the memorial address on the President, which closed with the motion that the members visit Dr. Herzl's grave in a body. May his spirit help us, he said, to lead the movement in his sense, so that we may fulfil his last wish, to lay him to rest in the soil of the homeland.

The gentlemen then proceeded in a body to Dr. Herzl's grave. Dr. Ravenna laid a bronze plaque upon the grave, begging that this modest expression of the deepest gratitude of all the Zionists of Italy be accepted. Architect Marmorek then paid tribute to the shining virtues of the departed, which at no moment stood forth so clearly as at this very instant. The prayers were spoken by Rabbi Roth of Pápa (Hungary).

Second Session, 16 August 1904.

Afternoon.

On the motion of Dr. Jacobsohn the Bureau was constituted of the following: Dr. Kahn, Doctor Kokesch, Architect Oskar Marmorek (Herr Kremenezky, being indisposed, did not attend the session), Dr. Tschlenow and Dr. Bodenheimer. Architect O. Marmorek then delivered the report of the Smaller A.-C. in its name. He said: "The time from the last sessions of the Greater A.-C. until to-day has been filled with the history of Dr. Herzl's illness, with his death, his funeral, and the bitter days that followed. Down to his last moment Dr. Herzl conducted in person all the business of foreign policy. All other work was taken off his hands entirely by the A.-C. The speaker then described the present political situation and the state of the negotiations with England, Russia and Turkey, and mentioned the opening of the branch of the Bank in Jerusalem, at which both the English Consul and the Turkish local authorities were present. He further reported on the participation of the A.-C. in the Hamburg Colonisation Society, and made it generally known that the expedition for the exploration of East Africa, consisting of three gentlemen from England and two gentlemen from South Africa, would shortly set out. A letter from Zangwill was thereupon read, in which it is proposed that the presidency be carried on in the meantime by Dr. Nordau, and that the Congress be convened only at the moment when a result of the East Africa expedition should be at hand. Sir Francis Montefiore likewise proposes in writing that the chief leaders of the movement be salaried from the main treasury.

On the 15th inst. the Commission for the Legalisation of the National Fund met in the Congress Bureau. There were present: Dr. Farbstein, Doctor Isidor Marmorek, Dr. Friedemann, Dr. Idelsohn, Dr. Menczel, Ing. Ussischkin, Dr. Rosenbaum. As invited guests: Dr. Bodenheimer, Dr. Jasynowski. There came up for discussion the fol-