The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-02
Peace Proposition TO Be Sub
mitted to China.
Will BE Long Time In Course
Of Preparation.
IN THOROUGH ACCORD.
Necessity For Complete Agree
ment Causes Delay.
In the Meantime Fighting Pro-
ceeds at Many Points.

Paris NOVA dispatch to the Havas
agency from Pekin dated October 81
says:
1.-The foreign ministers continued to-
dav the discussion of the peace PROPOSE
tions to be presented to the Chinese Ihe
French proposals were accepted Addi-
tfonaI specifications viii be discussed
Monday on account OF the necessity
for thorough accord between the differ
ent cabinets the final note will not be
presented for several weeks
Gen. VroyOn, commander in chief OF
the French troops in China, with the al
lies under hiscommand, is purglng the
villages around Tien Tsin and Pekin-
Many villages infested with boxers
have been destroyed and their inhaplt-
ants punished A French column sent
to Tuen rescued the missionaries there.
Another French column met with re-
sistance at Seit-Chung. The eneny's
losses were considerable.
The village was burned.
News received from Pao Ting Flu 1ndi-
Gates movement of French and German
troops upon Sizing, where the imperial
tOmbs are situated It IS rumored thaL
the army of Yang -Yuh-Kante has re-
solved to defend the place.
As the result Of inquiries made by the
international commission under General
BailOud (secOnd IN command OF the
French troops in China) the allies are
convinced that the grand treasurer and
the governor of Pao-Ting-F'u and a Chi
neSe colonel were instrumental IN the
murder Of American and English mis-
EiOnarieS and they have been condemned
TO death and will be executed soon
GOLD STANDARD MAKES TROUBLE
Washington, Nov. 2.-It was stated in
quarters we'll versed in Chinese affairs,
that outside of the questions Of indem-
nifty, punishments. etc, now under
negotiations at Pekin, there are three
vital and far reaching questions to be
determined, viz. First the removal of
ura1s T1l.r-- - q NJ
through the influence of her advisers,
from all participation in the Chinese
government; second. the creation of an
indemnity fund by the increase of
China's customs revenue either by the
payment of the duties in gold instead
Of deprecated silver as at present, or
else by doubling the present silver
duties from five per cent to ten per cent
ad valOrem, and third, the establish
ment Of a minister of foreign affairs
in place of the old and cumbersome
The demand for the retirement Of the
empress dowager is said to result from
the conclusion now generally accepted
that the imperial government of China
was responsible for the boxer uprising.
As the empress doWager was the ruling
authority Of the imperial government
during the uprising, this responsibility
is brought home directly to her There
is understood to be no purpose. how
ever, to visit upon her any personal
punishment or indignity, but merely to
50 form the reconstructed SOVernTn en-
as TO exclude her from all participa-
tiOn in it. It is deemed advisable for
that reason that she should remain per
manently away from Pel1in and that
her advisors also should be kept away
from the seat of government
The plan of doubling China's customs
duties has arisen from the need of find
ing source to pay war indemnities
which the various powers demand It
appears, however, that the increase of
duties has been brought heretofore to
the attention Of the United States gov
ernment by Ii Hung Chang This Oc-
CURED during his visit to Washington a
Few years ago, when it was represented
that the nVe per cent was fixed in 1853,
by treaties with the United States
Great Britain and other countries and
was payable IN silver at which time
silver was worth as much as gold But
with the change in the value between
silver and gold Ii Hung Chang pointed
out that China's per cent duty in sill
ver actually netted Only about 2I6 Der
cent, judged by the prevailing gold
standard The matter was not pressed
at the time.
China's present customs revenues are
said to be already pledged to meet the
interest and principal of Chinese loans,
50 that it viii require some entirely new
source to meet the indemnities. In case
the enlarged duties are determined upon
1t is understood that their collection will
be placed under the supervision of rep
resentatiYes of the powers, at least until
the indemnitieS are paid. The plan of
substituting q minister Of foreign af-
fairs in place of the Tsung Ii Yamen.
has long been in contemplation as for
eign representatives have found it very
difficult to deal with this mixed body
and to fix responsibility upon 1t par
ticularly during the boxer troubles
a JUDGE SENTENCED TO DEATH.
PaO Ting Flu. Friday, Oct 26@The
commission of inquiry into the Outrages
on missionaries here has sentenced to
death Tien Yang, the provincial judge:
Wang Shurg On, the military command
ant; General kiu, and two other off,
Gals
German and French troops viii gar
Tison at PaO Ting Flu for the winter
The preparations are complete for de-
stroyfng, October p, the most venerated