Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-27
The United States Replies to the
Inquiries Of the Powers.
ENGLAND ON CERNAyY'S PROPOSAL.
Tho suspicious Reception Of Ii Hung
Chang BY the Rusaians-The Taking
Of Pei.Tai-Chu by Gen.
Wilson.

closure OF all Its purposes and, as
. member of the administration put
r it, it has thrown its hand open on tn
table. This action was taken afte
8 the cabinet meeting yesterday, and
luncheon at the white house that TO
lowed served to reduce the decision
the ultimate form. At $3.50 o'cloc
Minister WI called by appointment
: upon Acting Secretary Hill and wa
handed memorandum embodyin
the response of the United State
government to the request of Prime
Ching that Mr.. Conger or some othe
person be Immediately empowered t.
begin negotiations with the Chimes
authorities for final settlement
The minister came away with dis
satisfied expression upon his face
Next came NJ. Thiebaut, the French
charge. A few minutes conversation
sufliced to impart to him orally al
answer to his own verbal inquiry
Then Baron Sternberg, the German
charge, who had been notified of thu
readiness of the state department tc
make answer to the German note
called and was given that answer
He FASTENED away to cable it to his
government. The department then
sent the answer to the Russian in
curry forward by messenger and
wired cablegrams containing the sub
stance of the answers to its diplo-
matte representatives abroad. Thus
closed one of the most interesting
phases of the Chinese ENHANCEMENT.
The state department absolutely
refused to make any statement as to
the nature of the answers, taking
the ground that to do so would be a
violation of the diplomatic proprie-
ties. The president himself, it
seems, had given instructions that
every effort should be made to
maintain secrecy in this mat
ter until the official disclosure. With
all this 1t is known that the German
proposal that negotiations with
China be deferred until the Chinese
responsible for the Pekin outrages
have been surrendered to the allies
has failed of approval by our gov
eminent. The declination has been
conveyed in manner that cannot
give offense, but it is believed that the
United States government cannot rec
ognize the principle that country
may be called upon to surrender its
own citizens to a foreign power or
powers for punishment. The govern
ment does not relinquish the idea of
the ultimate punishment of the Of
tenders when they are properly iden-
titled, but 1t does not believe that the
pursuit Of this object should put a
stop to all negotiations
Germsny's Proposal
London, Sept. eat seems to be
believed that Germany purposely pro-
posed her demand that the anti-for-
eign leaders, should be surrendered
before negotiations were commenced
with a view of delaying any general
acceptance of her proposal until Field
Marshal Count Won Waldersee should
arrive at Pekin. A Washington dis
patch asserts that the United States
has politely declined
to agree to Germany's proposal. In
any event, with Count Won Wadersee
iourneying northward and Ii Hung
Chang conducting negotiations from
Tien Tsin, matters must soon reach a
crisis. The manner of Earl Lis recep-
ton seems to confirm the suspicious
in Shanghai regarding his close re-
lation with Russia. About 1000 !
Russian troops and all the principal |
Russian officers met him at Chung
LANG Chen, half way to Tien Tsin. A
ong conference was held, at which no
of any other power was
present. This remarkable friendship
Exists at time when two continents
Ire ringing with the story of massa-
res by the Russians In Amur.
Ii Hung Chang, according to
Shanghai dispatches, assumed the
eals of the viceroyalty of Chi Ii yes
erday. His officers are busy raising
1000 foreign drilled men and we'll
rmed men who are now encamped
It point near and will soon move
o Aien Tsin.
Gen. Wilson Takes Pei-Tai-Chu
Pekin, Sept. II, via Taku, Sept. TO-
len. James II. Wilson, the American
commander, took Pei-Tai-Chu this
morning. No details Of the affair
ave been learned, but the British Of.
cials have received dispatch an
ouncing that 1.-THE temples were
AIKEN according to arrangement
is said Gen. Wilson will move on
an Hal Tien (San Kia ITEM and de-
troy the Chinese arsenal at that
lace. japanese scouts report that
he surrounding country is free of
he enemy. No word has been re-
.ived from une orxtn uullru states
lfantry which is operating in the
ortheast.
u Hung Chang st Tisn Tsin.
Tien Tsin, via Shanghai, Sept. "a
1900, the Associated
Hung Chang has arrived
IRE and is domiciled in his own va
en-, under a Cossack guard. His re-
'ption here was a repetition of his
ception at Tong Ku, only the Rus
an and Japanese officers calling on