The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-26

pieces Of their Governments and viii only
execute what their Governments order"
HEAR PROM THE PRESIDENT.
Both Mr.. White and Baron Komurs have
received many cable messages to-day,
but the contents or substance Of these have
not been made public. It Is understood
that the Russians heard again from Mr..
Roosevelt this evening and that the Presi-
dent urged, ~ he has heretofore, that there
should be an agreement reached. Accord
ing to one source Of information the Presi-
dent notified Mr.. White that he hoped
an adjustment would be reached on the basis
Of the proposal made by Baron Komura and
Mr.. Tskahira with reference to Sakhalin
Island. Before this statement was made
Mr.. White had declared emphatically that
the President had never urged upon the
Russian ENJOYS the acceptance Of any
definite plan OF settlement, but had confined
his representations to q general tender Of
good Offices.
The Japanese, while indicating very
plainly that they have nothing new to
offer, continue to assert through Mr.. Sato,
their official mouthpieoe, that they are
anxious to obtain peace. It may be that
they are waiting advices from Toxic with
reference to the latest communication
made by Mr.. Roosevelt to Paron Kaneko,
but the belief here is that they are basing
hope Of a successful outcome on the sup
position that the influence which the Presi
dent has brought to bear at Peterhof and
Portsmouth will have some effect.
JAPAN's PREVIOUS sURPRIsRs.
It has been constantly pointed out in the
Portsmouth dispatches to THE Som that In
all the calculations as to the prospects Of
the negotiations the fact had frequently
been overlooked that nobody knew just
what the course Of japan would be II the
worst came to the worst. In this lies the
uncertainty Of the present situation.
On two occasions the Japanese ENJOYS
have sprung surprises. At the very outset
Of the conference. when the Russian pleni-
potentiaries rejected fatty tho demands
Of Japan for the payment Of indemnity.
.he oession Of Sakhalin, the surrender Of
nterned ships and the limitation OF Russia's
naval power in Far Eastern waters. it was
supposed by most people, including the
Russians, that the conference would end
In failure then and there.
So much had been said about the ire
dudble minimum represented in Japan's
demands that the Wow was prevalent that
until all Of them were accepted by Russia
Baron Komura and Mr.. Takahira would
withdraw from the conference.
But when the Russians declined to accept
the most important of Japan's conditions
the ENJOYS Of that Government did not pick
UP their hats and leave the conference room,
nor did they present IN uldmatum. They
merely suggested quietly and calmly that
the conditions presented should be dis
cussed. This conciliatory attitude saved
the day and things went along swimmingly
for while.
Another crisis was reached when the
rejected terms were again taken up for
consideration, and formal failure to agree
upon them was recorded. For q second
time the Japanese plenipotentiaries were
expected to declare the negotiations at an
end, but again those who were wishing for
peace were agreeably disappointed. Baron
Komura and Mr.. Takahira came forward
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Of the repurohase of part Of Sakhalin Island
by Russia and to waive the demand
for an indemnity. That proposition, in
formally rejected by Mr.. Witte and Baron
Rasen, is to be considered whom the ENJOYS
next have business session.
From. all information obtainable this
evening neither side will give way and the
conference will result In failure. But there
has been no formal, authoritative state
mont to that effect from the Japanese
ENJOYS. Who knows. then, the hopeful
ones ask, whether the Japanese viii decline
to make any moro oonosssionsa
WILL PROBABLY ApJovRN TO-DAY.
This line Of suggestion Is given here
merely to show that Is long as Japan's
ENJOYS remain In the conference the out
como must be regarded with some un-
certainty. When tie ENJOYS assemble to-
morrow they will probably agree to adj
journ over until some day next week. All
evidence at hand points to final disagree
ment then.
One Of the Japanese mission said to-
night that II the ENJOYS found they could
not agree the protocol setting forth that
fact would be drawn In the conference
room and would be signed before tho ad-
journm, whicenth would mark the close Of
the Portsmouth negotiations.
GEAR PREPARES STATEMENT.
VIM Declare mat Russla AGaAe All Possible
Coneeosl0ns.
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