The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-08
UNITED STATES
HAD INTERESTS
Series of Diplomatic Exchanges
With Russia.
"0PEN DOOR" INSISTED UPON
REPLY OF THE MUsCoVITE
STATESMAN SATISFACTORY.

REPLY OF THE MUsCovITE
STATESMAN SATISFACTORY.
Washington. May I'm the Russian
ssries Of diplomatic exchanges in the
( current volume of foreign relations now
! In press is given the text of a cOmmu-
( nication addressed by Ambassador
! Tower to the Russian foreign Office
: relative TO the announcement that Chi
/ ma was about to sign an agreement
/ with the Russo Chinese bank by which
J valuable exclusive privileges were to
be secured by that institution. The
/ note brought forth the important dec
/ laratiOn from Count Lamsdorff, minis
/ ter for foreign affairs, that Russia pur-
! posed to restore ManchUria to China
/ and would recall her troops from that
province and that there was no inten-
! ton TO interfere with the open door
arrangement. Mr.. Towers note to the
/ Russian minister for foreign affairs fol-
lows:
In obedience to instructions which 1
! nave received from the government of
the United States. 1 have the honor to
| inform your excellency that the Ameri-
can minister to China has reported in
a telegram recently received at Wash
ingtOn that Prince Ching has agreed to
| sign the Msnchuria convention. and
also a separate convention with the
RussO-Chinese bank under which ex-
elusive privileges of industrial devel-
Opment in Manchuria are to be granted
to that bank
Would Look With Concern.
7 am instructed TO say that the gov
eminent of the United States could look
only with concern upon any arrange
a corporate company the exclusive right
within its territory to open mines. con-
Struct railways and to exert other in
dustrial privileges.
1T is the belief OF the government of
the United States that by permitting or
creating a monopoly Of this character
China would cOntravene the treaties
which it has already entered into with
foreign powers, and would iniuTe the
rights Of American citizens by restrict
ing legitimate trade; also, that such
action would lead TO the impairment
Of Chinese sovereignty and tend to di-
minish the ability Of China to meet its
obligations. Other powers as we'll might
ssek similar advantages in different
parts OF the Chinese empire and would
destroy the policy of equal treatment
of all nations in regard TO the naviga-
ton and commerce throughout China
Open Door Demanded.
Il am further Instructed to convey to
your eXcellency the sentiment of the
United States government that the ac-
quirlng by any one power OF exclusive
privileges in China for its subjects or its
own commerce would be contrary 10 the
assurances repeatedly given by the i'm
peTial Russian ministry for foreign at
fairs to the United States of the inten-
ton of the Russian government to main
China. as that policy has been advocated
by the United States and accepted by
all the powers who have commercial in
tereStS within the Chinese empire
Il am to assure you that the govern
ment of the United States IS now, as y
has always been heretofore. animated by
the desire to secure for all nations err
tirely equal Intercourse with China. and
/ am instructed TO present to your eX-
Russian government will give due at
tention to the foregoing considerations. |
which have also been addressed to the
Chlnese government, and 10 express to !
your excellenCy the hope that such
measures of procedure may be adopted
as will allay the apprehension of the |
government OF the United States
Russia's Reply.
Following is the reply of Count Lams-
dorff: The imperial government al /
ways DESTROYS Of cuItivating and develop
ing the best relations with the United I
states is fully disposed TO remove that ]
anxiety which the proposed arrangements /
between Russia and China appear to have /
caused the cabinet at Washington, but I
declare that negotiations carried on be /
tween two entirely independent states /
are not subjects to be submitted to the /
approval of other powers.
There is no thought of attacking the |
principle OF the open door, as that prin- I
clple is understood by the imperial gov !
eminent OF RusSfa. and Russia has no in ]
IenuOn Whatever 70 control the policy ]
followed by her IN that respect up to 1
IF the RussO-Chinese bank should OBJ
tain concessions in China the agreements
renH rNrsn OF los
would not differ from those heretofore
by so many other foreign cor
porations. But would it not be very
strange If the door that. is omen to
certain nations should be closed to Rus
STA whose frontier adioins that of Man
chuTia and who has been forced by re-
cent events to send her troops into that 4
province to re-estabIish order in the plain
and common interest Of all natiOns2 It /
is true that Russia has conquered Man
churia but she still maintains her firm
determination TO restore IT to China and
recall her troops as soon as the cOndi-
lions or evacuation have been agreed
uDOn and the necessary steps taken to
prevent q fresh outbreak OF. trouble in
the neiGhborinS territory.
Russian Diplomacy.
1T is impossible to deny an independent
state the right to grant others such con-
ressiOns as it is free to dispose, and I
have every reason to believe that the de
nands of the Russo-Chinese bank do not
n the least exceed those that have been
so often formulated ny other foreign
cOmuanies. and / feel that under the cir
'umstances it would not be easy for the
imperial government 10 deny to Russian
companies support which is given by
)theT governments to companies and syn
iicateS of their own uatiOnalities.
AT all events ] beg your excellencv to /
believe that there is not nor can there ,
)e any question of the contra dicLiOn of .
assurances which, under the orders of his
majesty the emperor. / have had Oc-
aston TO give heretofore In regard to ,
he principles which invariably direct the
)Ohcy of Russia"
Because of the announcement Of the |
AnglO-Japanese agreement at about the ]
tame time Mr. Hay addressed the Rus
'hinese bank. Mr.. Hay directed Ambas-
adOr Tower to advise the Russian gov
.rnment that this government did not J
NOW that negotiations for such an ar
angement were pending and that neither
treat Britain nor Japan was consulted re- ]
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