The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
APEACE CONFERENCE
TT SEEMS TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BE
HELD.
COSTA RIGA NEGOTIATIONS
SEEM TO NOW BE PERMANENTLY
BROKEN OFF.

And the Meeting That Was to Have
Been Held Aboard U. S. BattIeship
wisconsin Between Colombian
government md Revolutionary
officials Will Hardly MateriaIize.
The Valid Excuse of Gen. Vargas
santos for Not Attending-Uribe-
Tribe Under Sentence of ImprisOn-
ment and Death.
San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov. 9.-The
reason why Gen. Vargas Santos mill
tary director of the Colombian revolu.
ton, did not go to Panama to attend
the conference arranged to take place
to-day on board the United States bat
tleship Wisconsin in Panama harbor
between representatives of the Colom-
bian government and of the revolu-
tionists, is because the government of
Colombia, according to advices received
here intended to limit the subject of
the conference to the acceptance of the
decree of amnesty recently promulgat-
ed by the President of Colombia, Senior
Marroquin.
Gen. Santos Domingo arrived here
last month bearing peace proposals
from the Colombian government to
Gen. Vargas Santos. He said the pur-
pose of his government in calling the
peace conference was to establish an
effective and lasting peace which would
harmonic the interests of the several
political parties concerned in the rev
olution. The matter was discussed be-
tween Gen. Vargas Santos and the Co
lombian representative, who exchanged
a number of cablegrams with the Co
lombian authorities at Panama, with
the result that Gen. Vargas Santos ac-
copied the proposals made by Gen.
Santo Domingo, and promised to at
tend the conference at Panama with
Gen. Perdomo and Gen. Salazar, of the
Colombian government, and Gen. Her
rera of the revolutionists.
At this point of the negotiations Gen.
Vargas Santos received advices to the
effect that Notwithstanding the pro-
posals of the Colombian government
made through their representative here,
Colombia proposed limiting the con-
ferees to the acceptance of the decree
of amnesty. Gen. Vargas Santos there
upon refused to accept such a propo-
sition and decided to withdraw from
the conference, which he says he con-
siders futile.
At the same time the military di-
rector of the Colombian revolution
learned that the Colombian govern
ment had issued orders to Gen. Tovar
to imprison the revolutionary Gen.
Uribe-U Tribe and sentence him to death
without mercy. This order was given
in spite of Gen. Tribe Tribes capitu-
lation to the government forces, which
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month. The receipt of this news,
which is considered in Colombian rev.
dictionary circles here to be a shame-
full violation of public faith, further
decided Gen. Vargas Santos not to at
tend the peace conference at Panama,
and he issued orders to the Colombian
revolutionary army to continue it's
warfare.
Gen. Vargas Santos declares he is
willing to make peace, provided that
the Colombian government will recog-
nize the civil and political rights of
which the Liberal party has been de-
prived for the last eleven years, but
not otherwise.
Panama, Colombia, Nov 9.-The Co
lombian government gunboatS Bogota
and Chucuito left here yesterday on a
trip along the coast in search of the
revolutionary fleet.
1t is reported that Capt. Marmaduke
of the BogotaAJ has received instructions
to engage the revolutionists in a de-
cisive battle if he finds it possible to
do so.
Panama, Colombia, Nov. 9.-At noon
to-day the British, American and Chill
ian men-of-war in the bay fired sa-
lutes of twenty-one guns in honor of
the anniversary of the birthday OF