Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
SENDS A NEW NOTE.
Further Propositions Presented to
the Powers by Secretary of
State Hay.

tary of state has addressed an iden-
teal note to the powers interested
IN the Chinese situation, setting out
tersely and afresh the object of the
United States government as to China
and pointing out how such objects
as are common to the powers can best
be secured. The note marks the in
itiation of fresh negotiations on our
! part on the arrangement of new bases
to tide over the impossible situation
created at the last meeting of the
ministers in Picking. Some responses
already are at hand, and it is stated
that generally our advances have been
we'll received, and the state depart
ment expresses satisfaction with the
progress SO far achieved.
It is believed that the note is an
appeal from the extreme course sug-
gested by some of the powers as to
the treatment of China, especially in
the matter of punishments and in
IDENTITIES to which the ministers at
Peking seem inclined The intent is
to push the negotiations on a more
rational and business-like basis.
London. Nov. PA dispatch to
Reuters News Agency from Peking,
dated November %, says:
"Competent Independent judges Of the
present critical stage of the negotiations
opine that the consideration of all the
peace preliminaries should be transferred
to Washington or to European capital
and be placed in the hands of plenipOten-
tiaries possessed of full powers to ar
range the terms to be imposed on China.
Once the terms are agreed on they should
be presented as a demand not reGuirin g
negotiations with the Chinese commits
sioners. 1t is felt that the present discus
sons of the ministers, who do not possess
the powers to decide on the multiplicity
of propositions without reference to their
governments, are bound to Unfortunately
drag out the preliminaries and result in
long delay, causing the greatest uneasi-
ness in the foreign communities, who an
ticipate vastly increased difficulty in reach
ing settlement, owing to the alleged
waste of time
London, Nov GA serious di-
vergence has arisen in Peking,'' says
the Tientsin correspondent of the
Daily Mail, wiring Wednesday.
Japan, the United States, Russia
and France favor demanding a
milder punishment than the exc
cution of Prince Tuan and the 9TH
ers, while Great Britain, Germany,
Austria-Hungary and Italy deem any
thing less than the death penalty
useless. An important decision has
been arrived at, however, that this
divergence is not to interfere with
the general peace negotiations. An
other remarkable feature of the sit
uation is the sudden vote face of
Russia, which now declines either to
withdraw her troops from the prov
ince of Chill or to hand over the
railway as promised"
London, Nov. 24.-The Times COM
ments editorially in a somewhat in
credulous tone upon Secretary Hays
fresh note to the powers, saying that
it cannot imagine Secretary Hay as
objecting to the execution of the
guilty officials after, as was under
stood, asserting to the French pro-
posals. 1t admits, however. that, so
far as outsiders can form an opinion,
1.-The United States appear to be the
leading obstacle to the working of the
concert Of powers in China
Shanghai, Nov. 24.-The newspaper
assertion that Germany had threat
ened an expedition of $4,000 allies I'D
the -Kiang to Sian Flu con-
siderably alarmed the viceroy of Nam
king, who sent his family in haste
to the province of HUI Nan. The Ger
man consul h%re, however. denies that
he even mentioned such a project in
his recent interview with the vice
roy.
London, Nov. 24.-According to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Morn
ing Post there is a grain of truth in
the rumci CT an expedition up the
4angtse-Kang. ''Such a movement"
he says. would cause a confagrat ton
am ong the Chinese who would submit
to British occupation, but dread Ger
man interference" Special dispatches
from Shanghai describe the situation
at Sian Flu. Gen. Tung Flu Hsiang's
troops hold the city.
The personal bodyguard of the en-
peror and empress dowager consists
of only $50 men. Gen. Tung enters
the sacred precincts at will. salutes
the imperials with scant courtesy and
almost with insolence. and declares
his intention of emulating the no.
torious Wang Mang, who during the
Han dynasty prevented the court
from coming to terms with the enemy
and finally murdered the emperor and
usurped the throne.
According to the same dispatches
the only hope for the court is in Gen.
Ma. who has 5000 troops outside of
Sian Flu and has a bloody feud with
Gen. Lung Flu Hsiang. who murdered
Mas cousin.
Iowa to Be Free from Cigarettes
ST. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 24.-A special
to the Dispatch from Dubuque, Ia,
saws: Considerable stir was created