The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-20
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
MAKING FINAL EFFORT
Hope Yet Remains That Peace Will Be Arranged
at Portsmouth
Visit of Baron Rosen TO Sycamore Proposition Made to
Russian EnVoys-Fate OF The Conference HANGS
in the Balance.

n YSTER BAY. Aug 19.-President
Roosevelt is exercising every par
ticle OF his great influence to pre-
vent a rupture of the peace conference
at Portsmouth. He is engaged in a
supreme effort to induce the ENJOYS of
the belligerent governments to com
promise their differences and reach an
agreement that will result in "a Just
and lasting peace"
IN this effort he has the active and
cordial support of Great Britain, France
and Germany. Tremendous and world
wide pressure is being brought, to bear
upon the governments at ST Peters
burg and Toxic to not permit the
Washington conference to fail OF af-
frmative result. 1t can be said that
there is ground for the hope that it
will not fail.
Rosen at Oyster Bay.
Baron de Rosen. Russian ambassador
10 the United States, and second of the
Russian emperor's .envoys to the peace
conference. was with President Roose-
Welt an hour late this afternoon at
Sycamore Hill. He came to Oyster Bay
by invitation of the president not
merely to discuss with him the situa-
ton, but to have presented to him by
the president a proposition which ii is
which have arisen between the plenipo-
tentiaries of the two governments
After his conference with the pres5-
dent. Baron de ROsen left Immediately
for his summer residence at Magnolia
Mass, where he and Mr. White the
principal Russian envoy, expect to-
spend Sunday. Neither President
Roosevelt nor Baron de Rosen would
discuss even in the most general terms
the details or result of their confer
presidents proposition to Mr.. WHITE to-
night, and the likelihood is that il viii
be transmitted to Emperor Nicholas.
Hangs in the Balance.
On the result Of its consideration will
ence- IT is not improbable that before
the ENJOYS meet next Tuesday morn
ing II may be known with some degree
or dehniteness whether there is to be
peace In the far east or a continuance
Of the war.
Until the present time President
Roosevelt has refrained from any ac-
ton, even by indirection. that might
be construed as interference by the
ptenipotentiaries He announced at
Che beginning of the negotiations that
neither by word nor by act would he
participate in the proceedings OF the
conference, although he made it per
1ectly clear to the ENJOYS of both Rus
STA and Japan that he would be ready
at any time to assist them in a proper
way in the great work which they had
been designated by their respective
enperors to undertake.
Great Powers United.
In anticipation, however, of failure
Of the ENJOYS to agree upon certain of
the articles which they had agreed to
consider and in expectation that he
might be appealed to by the one side
or the other before the conclusion of
the conference. the president has been
IN communication with the great neu-
trail powers. His purpose was to enlist
their support in a final effort to Sc
cure an honorable peace With King
Edward he communicated because
Great Britain is a practical ally of ia
pan, and with President Loubet be-
cause France is the nearest friend Of
Russia Germany, too, was appealed
TO and Emperor William is exerting his
influence for peace
Through Mr.. Griscom, the American
minister at Toxic, the president also
has been working. but II cannot be as
certained whether his efforts have been
directed toward a reduction of the de-
mandS of japan or not. 1t is sur
missed, however, that he has urged the
japanese government to so modify It's
terms as TO render it easier for Russia
10 accede to them
Ndneko MISSION
Baron Kaneko, a confidential repre-
sentative of the japanese government
IN this country, has been keeping in
close touch with President Roosevelt
since the peace negotiations were in
their incipiency. For the fourth time
IN as many weeks and for the second
time WITHIN week he was in confer
ence with the president last evening.
Neither he nor the president yVouId
disclose the nature of their iutery-ia,r-
but II is significant that the baron had
scarcely started for New York before
the presidents interest in the uegotia
ions at portsmouth became active He
sent long and important connnuni-
cation 10 NJ. White and Baron de
Rosen- Secretary Peirce's reply TO the
message was communicated To The
president by telephone from the ex-
ecutive office in Oyster Bay village.
Conference Proposed.
Then ensued a long distance con-
versation between the president and
the Russian ENJOYS. the messages be-
ing transmitted through Secretary
Barnes here and through Assistant
Secretary of State PIERCE at Ports
mouth The president invited NJ. Witte
to send "A trusted envoy Drefera bl,-
Ambassador de ROsen, to Sagamore
Hill in order that he might present to
him for the consideration OF tho Pus-
sian mission a proposition of the birb-
est importance The invitation OF the
president was accepted and the details
soon were arranged
Baron de Rosen, accompanied bv
Prince koudacheff as his secrefarv
left Portsmouth early this morning. He
went to Magnolia. Mass. the seat of
his embassy during the summer ana
thence to Boston. where he boarded a
limited train for New York. At $50
o'clock this afternoon the train made
a special stop at New Rochelle. n Y
where Ambassador de Rosen ana the
prince left it and boarded the naval
yacht Sylph which the president had
directed TO be sent to New RochaIIe 10
convey the Russian ENJOYS to oyster
Bay.
Carriage Was Waiting.
Bearing Baron de Rosen and his sec
rotary. the Sy3 n entered oyster Raw
and cast anchI< below Sycamore Hill
az All p. m. I'VE minutes later tho
presidents callers were en- route to the
]. West Roosevelt pier i'm the Sylpb's
motor boat. As he landed BARON dc
Rosen was almost bruscue in his re-
fusal to discuss his mission. They en-