The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-22
PRES. ROOSEVELT HAS
 NOT ABANDONED HOPE
EFFORTS TO PREVENT RUPTURE OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
 UNRELAHED.

Events of Importance Succeed Each
 Other Rapidly at Oyster Bay-BarOn
 KanekO,. Confidential Representative
 of the Japanese Government, Arrives
 Unexpectedly and is at Once Received
 by the Presfdent-Bearer of Import
 ant Information but Strict Secrecy is
 Maintained.
 Oyster Bay, Aug. 21. - President Roosevelt has not abandoned hope of successful issue of the Washington peace conference. He has not relaxed. either his efforts to present a rupture between the conferees when they re- convene tomorrow afternoon at Ports mouth.
 Events of importance succeeded each other rapidly here to-day On an early morning train Baron Kaneko, a confi- dentiaI representative in this country of the Japanese government, arrived in Oyster Bay quite unexpectedly. He has general invitation to visit the president at any time and was received as soon as he arrived at Saganlore Hill, That he was the bearer of important in- formation is known, but the nature of his messages is not disclosed. He re- lnained with the president three quar- ters of an hour. At the conclusion of the conference, the baron declined even to discuss his mission, although he po- litely expressed his regret at his inabil- ity to enlighten his interrogators.
 Surrounded by a half dozen newspa- per men he talked with apparent frank ness, but his words were not luminous with information. He fenced adroitly with his questioners, retiring on pro- fession of ignorance when the questions shot at him were too sharply pointed.
 He expressed the opinion, which he was careful. to note was simply his own, that Japan had made every concession At the conference that a victorious power could be expected to make and that tle Japanese people would resent my serious recession by the envoys from the position they had taken.
 Following Baron Kaneko's visit, Pres ident Roosevelt had his acting secre- tary, MT. Barnes, with him for two hours. In addition to the matter which the baron had presented to him, the president received and considered an accumulation of dispatches and letters The replies to these were forwarded during the afternoon. Late in the day important messages were received from Portsmouth, the responses to which oc- cupied the presidents attention for a considerable time. 5''S Not the slightest indication of the character of the correspondence was permitted to become public. The pres ident, acting as an intermediary be- tween the two warning governments, feels that secrecy is even more incum- bent upon him than if the matter relat- ed wholly to him, personally, or to the United States. He maintains that if any publication is made concerning the pending negotiations it must be author ized by the representatives of one of The powers in direct interest.
 The president declined either to con- firm or deny any of the statements made about the proposition which he Iubmitted to the Russian envoys through Baron deRosen. There is strong, reason for the statement, how ever, that the proposition involved far more than 8 mere suggestion that the matters in difference between the en- Foys be submitted to the arbitrament of an impartial tribunal The state ment heretofore made in these dis patches that powerful pressure not alone from President Roosevelt, but from neutral powers of Europe, is being brought to bear upon the governments of Russia and Japan to insure a suc- cessful issue of the conference at Ports mouth, can be reiterated. Whether that influence takes the form of a, sugges- ton of modification of Japan's terms, of an insistance that Russia make the best bargain she can, or of an entirely new plan to bring about an agreement, cannot be ascertained.
 No concealment is made of the inter- est the president feels in the action of the conference when they shall recon vene tomorrow afternoon. No intima- tion even of the presidents opinion of Ehe result of that meeting is given, but that hope of peace yet springs from Ehe condition surrounding the confer ence is evident.
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