The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-07
|ENVOYS AGREE ON TERMS
Preliminary Treaty Arranged by
the Ministers in Picking to Set
tie Chinese Question.
A COPY SENT TO HOME GOVERNMENTS.
Some of the Proposals VIII Not Meet
with the Approval Of the United
States-Instructions Sent to Minis
ter Conger Missionaries Make
Harsh Demands.

ger has advised the state department of
the agreement under preliminary
treaty made between the ministers at
Peking, with view TO settling the Chi
nese question, and copy of it has been
transmitted to the home governments
for action.
Some of the proposals contained in
the treaty will not meet with the APP
proval of this government. The presi-
dent is in favor of Furnishing the Chi
nese who may be designated by the rep
resentatives at Peking as guilty of in
citing the Boxers, but the United
States will not agree to a wholesale
slaughter. Neither will it agree to the
exaction of an indemnity from China
which that government cannot pay.
The terms agreed to at Picking include:
l. Execution by the Chinese govern
ment of IL Chinese princes and officials
already designated.
2. Indemnity, which shall include salts
faction of claims arising out of the muir
der of missionaries and damages done
their property and damage done to prop
erty of other foreigners.
3. Reimbursement of foreign govern
ments for the expenses incurred in dis
patching military expeditions to China
and maintaining them there, and COM
pensation for native Christians employed
by foreigners.
4. Abolition of the tsung-li-yamen as at
present constituted, and the appointment
of foreign minister who shall conduct
business with the foreign representatives
5. Access by the foreign ministers to
the emperor's presence as permitted in
foreign countries.
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forts on the coast of China and the pro-
hibition of the importation of munitions
of war
z Establishment of permanent legation
guards and permanent guards from Pc
king to Taku.
8. Erection of a monument to Baron Won
Ketteler on the site of the murder and
the dispatch of a prince to Berlin to
formally apologize for the outrage.
8. Suppression of wars by imperial proc
lamation, removal and punishment in flu
ture of all officials failing to protect for
eigners and suspension of provincial ex-
animation for five years.
Instructions Sent COnger.
Washington, Nov. 2s.-Instructions
went forward to Minister Conger yes
terday directing him not to assent
to the agreement adopted by the
ministers of the powers at Picking
until it's terms had been greatly mod
flied.
VIII withhold Signature.
Washington, Nov. 29.-The state de-
partment has cabled Minister Conger
to forward the text of the agree
ment reached by the foreign minis
tiers at Picking. Meanwhile, he will
withhold his signature until the pres
ident has had an opportunity to sat
isfy himself as to this important docu-
ment and to make such changes as
will bring it in accord with our pol
icy.
Insist ON Amendment.
Washington, Nov. 30.-A dispatch
says that Russia has notified the en-
voys at Picking that it would insist
on an amendment to the conjoint note
making it acceptable to China. The
increasing. The Fifteenth United
States infantry started from Tientsin
for Manila.
No Word from Conger.
Washington, Dec. mo further in
formation has been received from Min
lister Conger concerning the agree
ment of the ENJOYS on the demands to
be made of China, and the department
of state is still in the dark as to his
action, although he has been fully adj
vised as to the attitude and desire of
the president. Nor has anything been
done by any other nation so far as
known.
Seek Revenge.
It is a singular fact that the only
blood'thirsty communications received
at the white house and the department.
of state on the Chinese question come
from ministers of the gospel, especial
ly from missionaries. They demand
the lives of the emperor and empress
dowager, and all the members of the
court and the wholesale slaughter of
the officials of the government. Many
of them demand that Picking shall be
burned to the ground and the site
sown with salt.
Descendant Of Washington Dead.
Washington. Dec 1-MisS Eupenia