Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-01
RUSSIA
ENGLAND SEES HARLA IN ALL
MUSCOVITE ACTIONS.
DO NOT LIKE OUR PEACE IDEA.
Germany Will Want Long War, Now
That Won Waldersee Is
Chief.

New York., September IA dispatch TO
the Tribune from London
The immediate result of the latest
American note was to cause a SORT OF
ministerial conference to assemble =
terday. evera Members of the BRUSH
bin came up to London in haste, and
held a consultation on the Chinese Dues
ton. The ministers included William st.
John Broderick, the under secretary fof
foreign affairs; the Duke of Devonshlre,
Lord ~Lansdowne, secretary for war, ana
George Goschen, the first lord of the ad-
miralty. Mr.. Broderick and Mr.. Goschen
We're together at the admiralty for some
time and subsequently an active inter-
change of kilograms took place TIVE
Downing street and Lord Salisbury. }
Whatever may be the official view OF
the matter, it must be said thai tthe
|RussO-American proposal has been very
coldly, not to say unfavorably, received
by the which in this case,
it is believed, reflect the tone of the
comparatively fe people who understand
the subject. The position of the United
States is understood, and all possible
allowances are made for the difficulties
of President Mckinley's advisers, who
are anxious to give no cOuntenance what
ever to the suggestion that they are en-
gagged in an aggresively imperialist pol
icy. Moreover, it is freely admitted that
Washington is acting consistently with
it's declared intentions from the outset,
which were avowedly to limit interven-
ton within the narrow lines to effect
deliverance of the Pekin legations.
People here well recognize that the
United States. which has no political
Interest in China beyond hat of secur-
ing of freedom of trade and intercourse.
shall be anxious to withdraw from the
Asiatic continent as speedily as possible.
England, however. as the holder of Hong
1 r-.. -.,l Wal Hot Moi anr1n 1snfJrA
so easily, and is a little disappointed at
| finding the United States apparently so
ready to lend a wiling ear to a Russian
suggestion which the British critics re-
gard with distrust. Whether it is due
to the habitual and, perhaps, exaggerated
suspicion entertained of Muscovite d.
plomacy in this country, it is impossible
to say, but it is certain that the Russian
peace-making suggestions are not likely
AS for the idea of recognizing Lii Hung
Chang, it is pointed out that the viceroy
has for years been anti-English. and, on
1.-The other hand, has cultivated rather
close relations with Russia, especially
since the good offices Of hat power en-.
abled China to deprive Japan of most
Of the solid results to which her military
successes entitled her. 1t is urged that
Russian confidence in the possibility OF
negotiating with the China imperial au
thorities is in itself significant and seems
to imply 4 curious knowledge Of the
sentiments entertained by the fugitive
government. No doubt 1t would sui
Russia we'll that the allied troops shoult
be sent back to their respective coun
tries and a lasting peace patched vi
with the now weakened and discreditet
Manchu dynasty, which would I've t
rely absolutely for support on it's power
full northern neighbors. China woul'
then be reduced to a condition of tutelag
and meanwhile the partition would b,
averted and matters would be kept u
wardly quiet till Russia has completed
the trans-Asiatic railway and ha,
amassed enormous forces in Siberia
when she would be ready for a fina