Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-22
PRESIDENT
is HOPEFUL.
He Does Not Relax His Efforts
in Behalf Of Peace -KanekO
at Oyster Bay.

OYSTER BAY. n. Y, Aug. 90
President Roosevelt has not abandoned
hope of a successful issue of the Wash
ington peace conference. He has moi
relaxed either his efforts to prevent Il
rupture between the ~conferees.
Events of importance succeeded each
other rapidly here. On an early morn
representative in this country of the
Japanese government, arrived in Oys.
ter Bay quite unexpectedly. He has a
general invitation to visit the president
at any time and was received as Soon
as he arrived at Sycamore Hill. That
he was the bearer Of important infor-
nation is known, but the nature of his
messages is not disclosed. He remain
ed with the president three-quarters of
an hour. At the conclusion of the con
ference the baron declined even to dis
cuss his mission, although he politely
expressed regret at his inability to EN-
tighten his i~nterrogators.
Surrounded by half a dozen newspa-
per men, he talked with apparent
frankness, but his words were not lu-
minous with information. He fenced
adroitly with his questioners, retiring
on a profession 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 con
cession in the conference that n Veto
rious power could be expected to make
and that the Japanese people would re-
sent any serious recession by the en-
voys from the position they had taken.
Following Baron Kaneko's visit Pres
ident Roosevelt had his acting secre-
tary, Mr.. 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 dispatches were received
from Portsmouth, the responses to
which occupied the presidents atten-
tion for a considerable time.
Not the slightest indication of the
character of the correspondence was
permitted to become public. The pres
1dent, acting as al intermediary be-
tween the two warning governments,
feels that secrecy is even more in
cumbent upon him than if the matter
related wholly to him personally or to
the United States. He maintains that
II any publication is made concerning
the pending negotiations 1t must be
authorized by the representatives of
one of the powers in direct interest.
The president declines either to con-
firm or deny any of the statements
made about the proposition which he
submitted ito the Russian ENJOYS
through BARON Rosen. There is strong
reason fo3 the statement, however,
that the proposition involved far more
than a mere suggestion that the mat
tiers in difference between the ENJOYS
be- submitted to the arbitrament of an
impartial tribunal. The statement here
tofore made in these dispatches that
powerful pressure, not alone from
President Roosevelt, but from neutral
powers of Europe, is being brought
to bear upon the government of Rus
STA and Japan to insure a successful
issue of the conference at Portsmouth
can be reiterated. Whether that in
fuence takes the form of n suggestion
of a modification of Japan's terms of
an insistence 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 in
terest the president feels in the action
of the conferees when they shall re-
convene. No intimation even of the
presidents opinion of the result of that
meeting is given, but that hope of
peace yet springs from the condition
surrounding the conference is evident.