Arizona republican., 1905-08-22
No Light on the End of the
 Peace Conference
NO NEWS GOOD NEWS
But What Hints are Thrown Out In- dicate an UnfavOrable Ending for the Portsmouth neetins-There is Talk of Arbitration.

Oyster Bay, Aug. 21.-President Roosevelt has not abandoned hope of a successful issue of the Washington peace conference. Neither has he re- faxed his efforts to prevent a rupture between the conferees when they re- convene tomorrow afternoon at Ports mouth.
 Events of importance succeeded each other rapidly here today. On an early morning train Baron Kaneko, the confidential representative in this country of the Japanese government, arrived in Oyster Bay quite unexpect-
 edly. He has a general invitation to visit the president It any time and
 was received as soon as he arrived at Sagamore Hill. That he was the
 bearer of important information is known but the nature of his visit was not disclosed. He conversed with the
 president three quarters of an hour
 and at the conclusion of the confer
 ence the baron declined to even dis
 cuss the mission, although he politely
 expressed regret at his inability to en- tighten his interrogators.
 Surrounded by a half dozen news
 paper men he talked with apparent
 frankness, but his words were not luminous with information. He eX- pressed the opinion, which he was careful to note was simply his own, that Japan had made every conces- sion in the conference that a victori- ous power could be expected to make and that the Japanese people would resent any serious concession by the envoys from the position they had taken.
 Following the baror's visit Presi- dent Roosevelt had his acting secre- tary. MT. Barnes, with him two hours. ] Late in the day important messages 1 were received from Portsmouth the i responses to which occupied the pres l ident's attention for a considerable time. Not the slightest indications of the i character of the correspondence was ! permitted to become public. The pres l ident, acting as an Intermediary be- tween the two warning governments, | feels that secrecy is even more incum- | bent upon him than as though the mat { ter related wholly to him personally or
 to the United States
 The president declines either to af- 1 firm or deny any of the statements | made through Baron de Rosen. There ! is reason to believe that the proposi- l ton involved far more than a mere | suggestion that the matters in differ | ence between the envoys be submitted ! Ip tiiC eit 'AtA t1NAOil VI eAil iAAAtNA 4eAi Nh
 bunal The statement heretofore made ! in these dispatches that powerful pres l sure not alone from President RoOse- | welt, but from the neutral powers ot l Europe, is thought to bear upon the ' governments of Russia and Japan tC
 insure a successful issue. of the con-
 ference can be reiterated. Whether
 that influence takes the form of a sug- gstion of a modification of Japan's i terms an insistence that Russia make ! the best bargain she can, or of an en- i tirely new plan to bring about ar ! agreement canot be ascertained. Nc
 intimation of the presidents opinion oi { the result of the meeting when the ! conference recOnvene tomorrow can be
 given, but that a hope of peace yet ] springs from conditions surrounding i the conference is evident.