Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-26
MORE MAIL ADVICEs.
Tho Demands of Japan and the Good
Ofioes of the United States.

Tho Demands OF Japan and the Good
Ohioes Of the United States.
SAN Francisco, October 9.-Advices
from Yokohama announce the arrival
there from the United States of Ye lung
600, Corean Minister TO Washington,
who is on his return to Corea. They
also give some interesting details of that
celebrated chapter in the correspondence
between the United States and Japan,
which eliminated in the letter from Sec
retary Gresham to United States Min
lister Dunn, touching the Chinese atti-
tude toward Corea, which had been the
subject of much comment in the United
States. 1t will be remembered at the
time that Japan was in military control
of Seoul. Her demands were very
sweeping, being as follows:
"a reorganization of the duties and
service of revenue officers of the various
departments; the appointment of a new
Minister in charge of the commercial in
tercourse and foreign relations; the pub
lie roads must be Widened, and railroad
and telegraph lines built by the govern
ment between Seoul and other important
places; the number Of government bu-
reaus must be reduced and salaries of
officers sufficiently increased so that they
may live properly; the system OF records
of receipts and disbursements of the gov
eminent must be changed and way of
increasing the public revenues deter
mined upon the monetary system must
be changed; new rules and regulations
for the management of the custom houses
must be adopted; the farming lands of
all the provinces must be resuTveyed and
numbered for purposes OF taxation In or
der that the amount received for public
improvements may be raised; the adj
ministration of Justice must be changed
military officers must be educated, and
the other systems of the army and navy
must be abolished and reorganized on a
modern basis the police system must be
thoroughly reorganized, and stations es-
tablished in Seoul and other important
places; the school system must be recog-
nized,'
To these demands Corea replied she
was and for many years had been sub
stituting changes in the governmental
system as the public revenues would
support, and that, while Corea realized
the superior military power of Japan,
which the Coreans would not resist, they
hoped their independence would be re-
spected and that the Japanese troops,
then in possession of the capital of the
country, would be withdrawn. At the
same time the King instructed the Co
rean Minister at Washington to repre-
sent the conditions to the United States
10 the end that the good offices of the
United States might be used to bring
about the withdrawal of the Japanese
troops. He was further instructed to
say that the exact conditions described
by the treaty of 1883 with the United
States had arisen and to beg the United
States to carry out the obligation it had
assumed in the article reading:
"If other power deal unjustly or OPP
pressively with either government, the
other will exert their good offices on be-
ing informed of the case to bring about
Amicabe arrangement and thus show
their friendly feelings"
Secretary Gresham responded to this
appeal by communicating with both
China and Japan in Corea's interest.
China agreed to withdraw her troops,
but japan declined to do so. Then the
Secretary addressed the note of instruc-
tions to Minister Dunn, which after sum-
ming up the situation and the obligation
of the United States concludes in the
following words:
"Cherishing sincere friendship for
both Japan and Corea, the United States
INDUCES the hope that Corea' sindepend-
ence and sovereignty will be respected.
You are instructed to say to the govern
ment at Toxic that the President is pain
fully disappointed should Japan visit
upon her feeble and defenseless neigh
Dor the horrors of an unjust war"