The herald., 1895-10-01
.L|U IS v|CEROY NO Longer
The British Demonstration Not
Now Necessary
THE VICEROY IS DEGRADED
Olney's Investigation of Cheng Tu Riots
Not Abandoned
Delay In Organizing the American Commits
sion Arises From the Objection of China
to Overland Exploration
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special wire
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. - Minister
DENLY has cabled to the state depart
ment from Pekin as follows:
"A special decree has been issued. The
responsibility for Sez Chuen riots rests
with the officials. Viceroy Liu was care
less. and took no notice OF the BEGINNING
of the riots. He is deprived OF his office,
and never to be employed. Other officials
are to be punished. -
This would seem to indicate that the
crises impending in China, involving a
naval demonstration by British forces,
has been averted for time at least by
compliance with the principal demands
of the British. 1t cannot be learned
whether the decree conceded all the de-
mands made. The cablegram makes no
reference to the sweeping conditions i'm
posed by the British minister that the
guilty officers be punished by suspension
for three years IN all promotions and ap-
pointments in civil service in the prov
ince of Sc Chuen. Viceroy Liu. whose
fall is announced. has been in trouble be-
fore. 1t is said be was found guilty last
November of misappropriation Of funds,
and later on because the French lnvesti-
Cheng Tu riots. He was obliged to pay
an indemnity of $500, 900 to the Fencrh
Caholic missions from his own pocket.
The present conclusion which has been
brought about apparently by British
threats will not involve the abandon
menJ OF the independent investigation
into the Cheng Tu riots ordered by Secre-
fary Olney. There has bse.i a change in
the personnel of the commission. Com
missioner Barber, naval attache. who
has fallen i'll, having been relieved from
duty as Commissioner by Lieutenant
Com m ander John 2. Merrill, executive
officer of the United States stamer Balti-
more.
LONDON, Sept. 3o.-A dispatch from
Pekin to Reuters agency confirms the
news given them by the British foreign
office today and exclusively cabled to the
Associated Press that the decree has al
ready been published in the Pekin Off
cial gazette ordering that Liu. vicefoy of
SEE Chuen, be stripped of his rank for
failing to protect the missionaries in his
distrie. and that lie be not permitted
again to hold office. The Pekin: ais
patch adds that the French minister to
China yesterday demanded reparation for
missionary outrages on French subjects.
The Timer will tomorrow publish a dis
patch from Berlin which says that the
Chinese government has informed Ger
many that the leaders of the attack upon
the German mission at Swatau have been
arrested and measures will be taken to
| arrest TIE others concerned.
The reason for the delay in organizing
and sending forward the American COM
mission TO Cheng Tu has just transpired.
1t arose from the insistence of our State
department in sending the commission
overland instead of up the Yang-tse
Kiapg river. The Chinese government
was extremely unwilling to have he jour
ney made in this fashion, while they
had no objections to sending the com
! missioners up the river in a steamb boat.
AS the department felt that the passage
! of the com mission overland through the
breadth of China, accompanied by a
formidable escort would have most
salutary moral effect upun the Chinese,
resem bling as it would dem onstration
in force. The point was insisted upon
| and it is felt that a substantial advantage
has been gained in the concession.