New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-01
ppITAIN'S DEMAND GRANTED
r,,r CHINESE GOVERNMENT DEGRADEs
THE vICEROY OF szE-CHUEN.
PUNISHMENT FOR HIS PART IN THE MISSIONARY
or-rRAGEs-THE AMERICAN COMMISSION

or-rRAGEs-THE AMERICAN COMMISSION
CONTINUES ITS WORK.
,onaon Sent. SO-A dispatch from Peking was
rsceiyed at the Foreign Office this afternoon con-
..o,rq thc statement that China had acted ia
ro,ably on the demands Of the Marquis of Sails
bury for the punishment of the Viceroy of SEE
csuen who, Sir Nicholas OConor British Minis
.er At Pekng. reported was responsible for the
ou,raees beginning in May at the mission sta
lions ir Cheng-Tu the capital of Sze-Chuen.
rrba 5,spatch received at the Foreign Office says
chat the Chinese "Ofiicial Gazette" has published
=, In,nerial edict announcing that the Vceroy OF
czs-Chuen had been stripped of his rank for fail
ing TO protect the missionaries, and will never
again be allowed to hold Office. so that his case
will serve as warning for all future time to Off
c,als who may be disposed to do wrong. The de-
cree also denounces the subordinate officials of
the province who failed to take proper action for
the protection Of the missionaries
THE Pail Mall Gazette" says that the Tsung-li-
yamen Che Board controlling Chinese foreign af-
fairs formally communicated its decision to the
British Minister. who expressed himself as salts
fed with the terms of the edict
.'It Is now proba be" also says THE Pail Mall
Gazette" that the British vessels which had en-
tered the Yang tse- Kiang River for the purpose
~ emf rcing the demands of Great Britain will
forthwith descend the river and resume their
former stations
A dispatch from Shanghai says that the British
Admiral Butler, commanding the Chinese Squad
ron. arrived at Woo-Sung on Saturday on board
the warshp Edgar The other English war YES
sa,s AZ Woo-Sung are the cruisers Caroline. I'm
daunted and Archer. and the dispatch-boat Alac-
ritv. The warsloop Daphne and the gunboat
Cbai nd Is
up the Yang-tse-Kians are the cruisers Rainbow,
spartan and the Aeolus. and the gunboats Plover
and Swift.
Another dispatch from Shanghai says that Ad-
miral Butler. with fourteen British warships Will
On to Nanking on Wednesday II the Viceroy Of
Marking fails to comply with the British de-
rnanGs Immediately upon the arrival of the fleet,
the dispatch adds, there will be serious results.
Washington Sept. 3O.-The State Department
was advised this morning by Minister DENLY
that Viceroy Liu had been degraded by an I'M
perial decree issued to-day. The abstract or the
decree cabled by Mr.. DENLY shows that the re-
sponsibiity for the Cheng-Tu riots in the PROV
ince Of Sze-Chuen rests with the officials; that
Viceroy Liu was exceedingly careless ana TOOK
no notice Of the riots and made no attempt to stop
the outrages; he is ordered to be deprived OF MS
Office and never again TO be employed CtHeI VI
ficias are also TO be punished iii,
The American commission will proceed. notwlth-
standing this action to conduc' i's @
~ these RIOTS The Secretary OF the Navy was
this morning advised that Lieutehahl-O pil, pm
mander John p Merrill, of the Baltimore, hal
been substituted for MISUNDERSTANDING baI-
her as member of the commission, the latter De-
ing ill., The other members are the consul Sheil-
dan p Read and Fleming Cheshire
Iiu the degraded Viceroy, appears 10 nave Deeh
an official whose constant aim was 10 sur up
strife with the missionaries and seek the goou-
viii of the natives whose deep-rooted anti-foregn
sentiments caused these periodical outbreaks III
the province over which he ruled lie mas peeh
connected with previous outrages, ana was coIi-
peled 10 pay the French an indemnity amounting
10 $500 900 from his private purse for crimes com
mitted against Frer ch Catholics last November
He narrowly escaped being deposed al that 'inie,
and was retained only because he was popular
with some of the leading ofhclals al fekihs anu anu
because his services were needed in matters per
tanning TO the revenues of the province. His rep
utation is that Of a vicious and unscrupulous
person. and 1t is said that the whole government
Of the province of Sze-Chuen is impregnated Win
the ant-foreign feeling so vigorously eXempilheu
in the official acts OF Liu 49,
The degradation Of this VicerOy is but one step
In the direction of complying with the demanos
Of the Powers interested in compelling indemnity
for the missionary outrages 1t Is believed thal
Iiu's successor will be Lu. Niceroy OF one OF
the Northern provinces. man said to be honest
and Just and rather inclined TO frlendHhess to"-
ard foreigners.
Additional demands are understood to have
been made by the British and American MINIS
ters and II they complied with. long step
in the direction OF reform in the province OF SEE
Chuen will have been taken. THESE Ministers II
is underst tood have made a demand that all eA-
amnations for promotion in and appointment to
Office shall in that province for three years
This is intended blow at the oflce-hoIulhe
class. from which source emanates all the al
legged Information circulated among the natives
for the purpose Of inciting them to the commits
sion of outrages.