The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-12
ALL FOREIGNERS KILLED.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
VIII BE Called To Decide China :
Future When Peace Comes.
REPyRLIC SPECISI.

| REPJRI.Ic SPECIAL.
Washington. July I.-Wher the Boxer
| uprising i'm China has been put down The
! final settlement nc the. broader Chinese Hues-
ton will be effected by an international
congress.
No! only those Powers which have so
called spheres OF influence in China. but
all civilized nations will be represented a.
this congress
The meeting will in all probability he held
in London. and will be in many respects
similar to the congress which arranged the
present status of Turkey.
One Of the principal matters to be dis
cussed by this congress will be the declaFa-
tion Of the position Of the United States. op-
posing the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Chinese
Empire. made public yesterday by Secretary
of State Hay. and which previously had
been communicated TO the great Powers.
This programme is given very high aii-
thority, and there il scarcely doubt or the
accuracy of the information
The declaration of the United States made
by Secretary Hay is only tentative, and it
is learned on good authority to-day that II
was intended as the keynote proposition TO
be submitted to the International congress.
Attitude of the Powers.
As Vet the State Department has not been
advised OF the attitude Of any Of the ma
tions toward the declaration OF the United
States.
a high official Of the department to-day.
that all nations will coincid. with the
prInciplc OF the declaration against the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Chinese Empire
This hope IS predicated on the assumption
that all the nations with the exception Of
Russia are chiefly interested in the export
trade of China. and not in Chinese lard
grabbing Russia H. now Interested. and
will he for some years. in the acquisition OF
the Peninsula Of Korea and the I-iao-Tfnk
Peninsula. Undoubtedly there viii be some
difficulty In getting Russia and perhaps
France to agree in exact terms with the
proposition, Of the United States. but there
IS now III, expectation thai this will be
ACCOMPLISHED.
'~rhc strength Of the American PROPOSE
ton lies in the theory that II Will be better
for all the nations interested IN the export
Grade to have four hundred million people
10 deal with than 10 have each country
deal on its own terms with say forty or
fifty million people IN definite sphere of
influence. Otherwise the United Stats
propose to prove at this congress that the
integrity Of the Chinese Empire and the
extension Of civilization in China depend
rather on the widos; open door than on
tn. carving up OF the Empire. with the
consequent establishment OF various priI.-
cipalit!es under various Governments and
laws.
The United States stand primarily for n
money Indemnity They will push this idea
at the congress. II peace can he estab-
Iished and maintained on this proposition.
courle,l wi n the open door in It's most lib
eral sense. the United States will have
achieved the greatest international work of
the past five centuries. Ii will be shown
at the International Congress that the prop
osition here outlined IL the suggestion of
American diplomacy. and with the sus-
pected opposition of Russia and France re-
rroved. II may be assumed that the Chinese
problem Will be solved on lines laid down
by the American State Department"