Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-08-17
THE UNITED STATES R[PLYl
No General Proposition for Peace
Can Be Negotiated While Minis
tiers Are Under Restraint.
WHAT THE CHINESE EMPIRE MUST DO.
This Government Ready to Enter into an
Agreement With Powers to Cease Hos
Utilities ON Condition That SUFFICIENT AL
He'd Force BE Pet4mitted to Enter Pskin
and Escort Legations to Tien Tsin.


ment of state Monday made public the
reply Of the United States government
to Minister Wu's communication, de-
ivered on Sunday morning notifying
the department of the appointment
of Earl Ii Hung Chang as envoy plen-
lpotentiary to negotiate with thu
powers. This reply was sent to Min
lister WI at five o'clock Sunday after
noon and is as follows:
Touching the imperial
edict of August 9Th appointing Ii Hung
Chang envoy plenipotentiary to conduct
negotiations, on the part of China, with
the powers and request for cessation
Of hostilities. pending negotiations, COM
municated to Mr.. Adee by Mr.. WI on
the 18th Of August, 1900.
The government of the United States
learned with satisfaction Of the appoint
ment of Earl Ii as envoy plenipotentfary
to conduct negotiations with the powers
and will, on its part, enter upon such ne
gotiations with a desire to continue the
friendly relations so long existing between
the two countries.
1t is evident that there can be no gen.
eral negotiations between China and the
powers so long as the ministers of the
powers and the persons under their pro-
lection remain in their present position
Of restraint and danger, and that the
powers cannot cease their efforts for the
they are constrained by the highest con-
sideration of national honor except under
an arrangement adequate to accomplish
q peaceable deliverance.
We are ready to enter into an agree
ment between the powers and the Chi
government for cessation of hostile
demonstrations on condition that suff1-
cient body of the forces composing the
relief expedition shall be permitted to
enter Pekin unmolested and to escort the
foreign ministers and residents back to
Tien Tsin, this movement being provided
for and secured by such arrangements
and disposition Of troops as shall be con-
sfdered satisfactory by the general COM
manding the forces composing the re-
lief expedition.-Alvey A. Adee, Acting
Secretary, Department Of State, Washing
ton, August r. 1900.
That the United States has taken
this course had already become pretty
well understood, but the announce
ment of the text of the message dis
closed the firm policy which the
United States has adopted. The i'm
portance of the action taken by this
government lies to a considerable ex-
tent in the wording of the message.
China had made overtures for peace
and had thus opened the way for
possible compromise or for further
diplomatic temporizing. The United
States in it's response, lays down GER
tain specific preliminaries to any
peace overture, including an entirely
new demand namely that a sufficient
ly large force from the allied column
shall be allowed to enter Pekin, I'M
opposed and conduct the members of
the legations and their followers
from the Chinese capital to Tien Tsin.
While their last demand might have
been inferred from the previous re-
lection of the United States of the
proposal for Chinese escort, it is
now put forward as an exact and I'M
alterable demand which China must
except Internationally if she hopes
to stay the advance of the in
ternational forces or hopes even
to have considered any other icondi-
tions of peace which she may desire
to put forward to the offended powers.
The reply was sent to Ii Hung
Chang through Minister WI last night
and as there are not the delays in
communicating with him similar to
those in dealing with Pelzin, it may
be expected that China's peace envoy
will be. acquainted to-day with the
position of the United States.
Transport Sumner at Naeasaki
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE war de-
partment has received the following
from Gen. Barry: ''Nagasaki, Aug.
12.-Adjutant General, Washington:
Transport Sumner arrived this port
on the 10th. No casualties occurred.
Health of command excellent Will
proceed Taku on Indiana.-Barry."
The Sumner carried battalion of
the Fifteenth infantry. The Indiana
also will take aboard siege guns and
Maxim field guns, which Gen. Chaffee
has requested and which Gen. Mac
Arthur sent from Manila. 1t will take
about three days for the Indiana to
reach Taku.