The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-04
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Was ia Consular Report Predicting.
II the Present Chinese Uprising.
CLEVELAND lLI;'' DIDN'T LIKE IT..
Valuable Paper by Consul Hlxson;
Was Never Mndc, Ppblic-saidS
'S United States Would Have to Take
mi ttativc---H England Showed
the White Feather.

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WASHINGTON, !. b. G., July a.
Among the sacred papers ut the state
sdepa rtlnent Is u report made by j..
Csour,tncy Hixson, who was. consul tn
ta'turchau. CHM, under. the Cleveland
3ya9min!stration,2 and which report swas
i not printed and given publicity on no.
Il count &pf the plain language used By
4 the consul touching the cowurdly con-,
duct Of sEngland's minister and consul
! during the massacre Of the missionaries
In China in 1895.
Se 4 Not only did Consu, HixsoD use the
J. English foreign officials without gloves.
y but in his report he took Occasion 10
e say that the massacre was simply thu
beginning oftthe final wiping out OF Iey-
L cry lnisslonarysiIn China, and TINT
K when thisistep was taken, o ther, so calls
Sed civilized nations would stand back
\ and wait for the United States toStuke
4 the Initiative. The consul also had (,
word or two to say relative to forcing.
Z upon China missionaries who wished to
J preach religions other than that fol-
lowed by the Chinese for ages past, ana
,eSwas then of the opinion that unless
& Our missionaries were recalled and for-.
I. hidden by oprl%govcrnment to enter
4 China the result would be war, which
would entail Great loss Of life and
81 heaVS moneyed expense to the United
Z states. s s, II " 4. e
Old NOT Please Cleveland.
As stated, this report was never
\ printed. It. did not please the Prasi.,
Is dent nor was it along the lines Of poll
y Icy adopted by the secretaryipf states
I: but the present 5heathenism& and bar,
Sbarors outbreak in China IS his predlc-
atlon,' In his report Consul! Hlxson said
that the integrity OF our country de-
pended upon ourselves, and not upon
Y other nations; that the consular courts
/ should be given more power-7-powcr to
.smete out summary Justice. He reached
3 this conclusion after his experience In
I bringing to Observation-Disclosures and
tnlone-7-twenty Or more yegctarians-the
t'sHsS N'tS
cred men, women and children. Among
these there wcrc no Americans killed,
but several We're wounded. These We're
sERgland's subjects. and yet England's
representatives in China made:no et-
forts whatever to compel the Chinese
government to protect their people.
The fearful massacre ut Hawashun was.
reported TO our minister, DENLY. OH
August g. and he at once instructed
!. Consul Hixson to begin an immediate
Investigation. On the seventeenth Con-
J sui II xson named q board of lnvesuga-
'5tion, 9, 4 Z,
English Declined to Serve.
KS On this board he attempted o get
4 English consuls, but <they declined to
/, serve, Notwithstanding that 1t was
their missionaries who had been killed
and homes burned China refused also
10 give into the inquiry, after parleytng
S.untll the nineteenth; when Consul
SI4!xsoa announced that he would no.
+ be thwarted, and he began the work
Z hiInsalf, warning the Chinese authorit,
4 los that IL he Was interfered with, there
would be all kirds OF trouble. He also
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