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POWERS ASK FOR PEACE.
Representatives Of Six Foreign Nations
Appeal to the President.
EXPRESS HOPE FOR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS
Both Notes Were Mild-McKinley Makes
Pointed Reply and Hoped the Powers
Would Appreciate Our Efforts to
Emancipate People of Cuba.

WASHINGTON (SpeciaD. The repre-
sentatives of the six powers Of Europe
seeking to avert war between Spain
and the United States, called on Pres
ident Mckinley at noon Thursday.
The governments of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, Russia and
Italy were represented. Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
was the first to arrive, followed by
Ambassador Won Hollenben, of Ger
many. Within few minutes all the
ambassadors had been ushered into
the blue room, and President McKin-
ley Immediately left his Office and
went down to meet them. Sir Julian
Pauncefote, as representative of the
powers, presented the following:
"The undersigned representatives
of Germany, Austria-Hungary, France,
Great Britain, Italy and Russia, duly
authorized in that behalf, address in
the name of their respective govern
ments, pressing appeal to the feel
ings of humanity and moderation of
the President and of the American
people in their existing differences
with Spain. They earnestly hope that
further negotiations will lead to an
agreement which, while securing the
maintenance of peace, will afford all
necessary guarantees for the re-estab-
lishment of order in Cuba. The pow
ers do not doubt that the humanita-
rian and purely disinterested charac-
ter of this representation will be fully
recognized and appreciated by the
American nation"
President Mckinley replied as fol-
lows:
''The government of the United
States recognizes the good will which
has prompted the friendly communica-
ton of the representatives of Germany,
Austria Hungary, France, Great Brit
ain, Italy and Russia as set forth in the
address of your excellencies, and shares
the hope therein expressed that the
outcome of the situation in Cuba may
be the maintenance of peace between
the United States and Spain, by afford
ing the necessary guarantee for the re-
establishment Of order in the island,
so terminating the chronic condition of
disturbance there which 80 deeply in
lures the interests and menaces the
tranquility of the American nation and
the consequences of the struggle thus
kept up at our doors, besides shocking
its sentiment of humanity. The gov
ernment of the United States appre-
ciates the humanitarian and disinter-
ested character of the communication
now made on behalf of the powers
named, and for its part is confident
that equal appreciation will be shown
for its own earnest and unselfish en-
deavors to fulfill a duty to humanity by
ending situation the indefinite pro-
longation of which has become in
sufferable."
The call of the representatives of the
powers ON the president was quite
brief, and was evidently by appoint
ment, for they were at once shown into
the diplomatic room of the state de-
partment, where they were joined by
Secretary Sherman and Assistant Sec
retary Day, with whom they were
closeted behind closed doors.
Simply an Act of Friendship.
The British ambassador said in refer
ence to the note signed by him with
the other powers, submitted Thursday
to the president, should not be mis-
construed so far as England was con.
cerned. 1t meant, he said, simply an
act of friendship and to indicate to the
United States that his government was
willing to render any service within its
power, should this government indi'