The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-20
Baron Rosen Has Hour and
a Half Conference With
tho President.
HAS THE MIKAD0 YIELDED ?
Tide Turned Toward Peace Is the Belief
OF These Acquainted With the Presi.
dents Moves Russians Call japanese
Terms Bitter PHI TO swsllow-Roose'
veit's Arguments Believed to Have
Some Relation to the Mission Of Baron
Kaneko, the Financial Agent Of Japan.

veit's Arguments Believed to Have
Some Relation to the Mission Of Baron
Kaneko, the Financial Agent OF Japan.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y; Aug. la.-With the
arrival here of Baron Rosen at 80 o'clock
this afternoon the scene Of the peace negotia-
tons Is again shifted to Oyster Bay, and
Just as on Aug. s, after the Mayfower oere-
monies, when everybody believed that
peace was sure to come, SO to-day after
tho Presidents conference there u be.
lief that he has succeeded In casting OIL
ON the troubled waters, averting a dis
astrous ending Of the negotiations.
What the proposal was that the President
laid before the Russians he has declined
to make public Baron Rosen declined
to give hint, but both the President ana
Baron Rosen were very cheerful after the
interview, and when Baron Rosen and Prince
Kondacher drove away from sagamore
Hill they looked and professed them
selves to be in the best Of spiri.s.
Baron Kanekos visit yesterday is now
partly exphcable. 1t is believed that the
irreducible minimum Of the japanese
was laid before the President by Baron
Kaneko. in it's most irreducible terms and
that, owing to the Presidents persuasions'
Baron Kaneko who Is constantly in COM
munication with the Mikado, has succeeded
In enabling the President to promise the
Russians certain additional concessions,
though the extent Of them cannot now be
known.
But It Is believed that on the other hand
the President has earnestly urged upon
Baron Rosen the necessity for sozne further
concessions on the Russian side 90 that
peace, which the President has 90 much at
heart, may be brought about.
Baron Rosen will lay the Presidents
suggestions before Mr.. Witte, his senior, at
Magnolia, Baron Roseu's summer home.
tomorrow and Mr.. Witte, in turn, will lay
them by cable before the Gear on Monday.
It is expected, when the conference reas-
sembles at Portsmouth on Tuesday, 1t will
not break up, as was supposed. but will
have new matter to discuss and viii con-
tinue in session.
The President would in no wiso discuss
the conference between himself and
Baron Rosen, but the Presidents gen.
eral ideas on the situation are pretty well
known. His anxiety for peace does not
come from any vain glory that makes him
fear failure Of his efforts. The President
really and sincerely believes that peace IL
the best thing for the two belligerents "a
well as for the world at large. 1t is believed
that the President announced to Baron
Rosen his firm conviction that Russia can
gain little by continuing to fight. He does
not mean Russia should humiliate herself
and accept peace at any price, but he BE-
lieves that II Russia allows herself to be led
by her pride to fight on now she as well "a
Japan will suffer incalculable losses for no
good reason.
The President, It is believed. felt con-
WINGED that regardless of statements pub
lished to the contrary, Russia has resigned
herself to the fact that some indemnity
she will have to,pay. But 1t is believed that
through Baron Kaneko he has succeeded
In persuading the Japanese Government
to bring that indemnity within the bounds
Of possibility for Russia. The President,
1t Is thought, worked hard with Baron
Kaneko and his facts and figures during
the Baron's many visits here. but In the
end, it Is supposed, the President succeeded
in his endeavors.
The Mikado's great respect for the Presi-
dent is we'll known and he would be likely
to oonoede to the President what he could
never bring himself to oonoede to Russia
in conference without outside suasion.
The President, through Assistant Secre-
tary Peiroe, has been In constant touch
with the negotiations and the secret pro-
poeal he made to Baron Rosen to-day, it
is supposed, he held in reserve against q
possible crisis such as came at the close OF
Yesterdays session Of the conference
To fail IN an undertaking he deems good
is the one thing that the President cannot
bear.
He has, in all probability, pointed out
to Baron Rosen that, indemnity and all
1t will be cheaper in the end for Russia to
end the conflict and to devote herself to
internal improvements and to the develop
ment Of her vast resources. That the first
thing Russia should do is to build up a
navy He has shown the Russians, it IL
thought. that without a navy that same
island Of sakhalin ARTICLE W which Russia
declines to cede is Of very small value. and
a. according to the Presidents idea It
takes generation to build up navy he
probably suggested that sakhalin 10 not
worth bothering about.
Besides sakIalin and the indemnity re-