The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-10
DOWAGER
MUST co
Powers Will All Insist
On This Point.
SHE CAN'T STAY At PEK|NG
Tsung-Ii-Yamen To Be Abolished
and Indemnity Fund To Be
Created.

WASHINGTON. Nov 2-H was
stated stated today in quarters wei!
versed in Chinese affairs that outside
of the questions of indemnity, punish
ments. etc, now under negotiation Al
Picking. there are three vital and far
reaching questions to be determined,
viz: First, the removal of the Empress
Dowager, personally and through til"
influence of her advisers, from all par
ticipatior in the Chinese Government;
second the creation of an indemnity
fund by the increase Of China's GUS
toms, either by the payment of the du-
ties II geld instead of deprecated sill
Yer as at present, or else by doubling
the present silver duties from pcs
cent to 10 per cent ad valorem; anc
third, The establishment of a Minister
of FJreign Affairs, in place of the ola
and cumbersome system of the Tsung
lli-YameE.
Thu demand for the retirement OF
the Empress Dowager is said to result
from tie conclusion, now generally &C
cepttd. shat the Imperial Government
of China was responsible for the Box
er uprising. AS the Empress D0wager
was tfr ruling authority of the Impe
rial Government during the uprising,
this responsibility is brought home di-
tectly to her. There is understood 20
be no purpose, however, to visit upon
her any personal punishment or m
dignity, hut merely to so form the re-
construct ted government as to exclude
her from all participation in it. 1t is
deemed advisable for that reason THAI
she should remain permanently away
! from peking, and that her advisers
also should be kept away from the sect
! of government.
| The plan of doubling China's customs
duties has arisen from the need of
! finding a source to pay war indemni-
| ties, which the various powers demand.
/ 1t appears, however, that the Increase
of 1utie3 has heretofore been brought
| to tn attention of the United States
Government by Ii Hung Chang This
was during his visit to Washington a
few years ago. when it was rep1 esent-
ed thar the ) per cent was fixed in 1855
by the treaties with the United stat
and other countries and was payable il
silver, at which time silver was worth
as much as gold But with the changed
value between silver and gold, Ii Hung
Chang pointed out that ChSua's ; u I
cent duty in silver actually Setted only
about ~ per cent, judged by the pre-
vailinE gold standard The matter was
not pressed at the time.
China's present customs revenue are
said to be already pledged to meet IN
teres- and principal or Chinese loans
so that it will require some entirely
new source to meet the indemnities
In case the enlarged duties are deter
mined upon, it is understood thar Their
collection will be placed under the su-
pervi.ion of the powers, at leas. until
the in6@mnities are paid.
The plan of substituting a MIniste.
of Foreign Affairs in place of the
Tsung-l!- Yamen has long been coi.-
temp!ated, as foreign representa- ivee
have found it very difficult to deal
with this mixed body and to locate re-
! sponsibllity upon it, particularly dur
ing the Boxer troubles.
! OFFICIALS DOOMED TO DEATH.
PAO TING Flu, Friday, Oct. 26-Tne
Commission of Inquiry into the ouc-
RACES on missionaries here has SEN
tenced to death Tien Yang, the pro.
vincIal Judge; Wang Hung On, the
military oommandant; General kiu
and TWO other officials. German and
French troops will garrison PAP Ting
tu for the winter The preparations
are complete for destroying on October
q the most venerated temple in The
city.