The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-09
MANY VISITORS
AT OYSTER BAY
Chinese Minister Talked of the Han
kow Railway Project
LOOMS MADE HIS REPORT
DR.. HOLLANDER TOLD OF SAN
DOMINGO AFFAIRS.

liang Cheng, the Chinese minister, ar
rived here tonight and was driven to
Sycamore Hill. He took dinner with
the president and Mrs. Roosevelt
Sir LANG made an engagement by
telegraph this afternoon to see the pres
jdent tonight and arrangements were
made to have one Of the executive car
Tiages in waiting for him at the rail-
way station at 1874, but he unexpect-
eddy arrived on a train which came
from New York an hour earlier. He
secured a public conveyance in which
ne drove to the presidents home. The
minister came particularly to talk over
with the president matters relating to
the HankOw railroad, concerning which
j. PierpOnt Morgan had a conference
yesterday with the president. Sir Liang
desired to obtain some information
q bout that conference and to present
also statement of the situation from
the standpoint of the Chinese govern
ment. Sir LANG remained at Saga
more Hill about two hours, returning
20 the railroad station in time to take
the 1903 train for New York
Presidents Statement.
The president authorized the state
ment that the conference related en-
Tirely to the negotiations pending in
regard to the Hankow railroad. Sir
LANG before he departed for New
York. said he simply desired to discuss
the railroad question with the presi-
dent. but regretted that he could not
AT this time talk about the subject for
publication. China wants to purchase
the railroad and it's concessions. said
he. and has made an offer for it,
What that offer is ] cannot discuss just
now. We are trying to patch up an
arrangement that viii be satisfactory
and I think an entirely friendly settle
1nent will be reached"
Made No Threats.
HAS the Chinese government at any
time threatened to seize the Hankow
railroad"
"Oh: no" replied the minister Not
at all We have merely offered to pur-
chase it"
The property. he explained, was $50
miles of railroad on paper, but only
twenty-eight miles in actual operation.
THE company" said he, has con-
Cessions for $50 miles of line, but in
seven years it has built only twenty
eight miles,
The minister indicated that many
Chinese were opposed to any railroad.
but said expressly that objection was
not due to foreign control of the line.
Shaw's Visit.
II can be said by authority of the
president that the visit of Secretary
Shaw of the treasury to Sycamore Hill
yesterday had no relation to the sec
Tetary's retirement from the cabinet.
The matter upon which the secretary
particularly talked to the president was
personal entirely to them. The secre-
tary's resignation in the future was not
mentioned. Secretary Shaw has let il
be known that he expects to resign
from the cabinet some time next win
ter. but no definite date for his retire
ment has been fixed. It is expected
generally in political circles that the
secretary expects to become a candl-
4. san IN
1908. and that his REIMBURSEMENT of his
cabinet duties is TO free him from any
embarrassment in the conduct of his
campaign for the nomination.
LOOMS at Oyster Bay.
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis
visited the president today. At the
conclusion of his visit Mr. LOOMS said
he had made a. brief report to the presi-
dent of the accomplishments of his mis-
sion to Europe, both as to the recep-
tion of the remains Of John Paul Jones
and as to his inquiries and observations
concerning the various American en-
llassies and legations he had visited.
He pointed out that one of the objects
of his inquiries was TO evolve plan
whereby the American government
could obtain information through its
embassies and legations more promptly
than is now the case. He said that /
Great Britain and European govern
ments surpassed the United States in
the DfDnlplneS WIFI WHlCn LACA Ob-
tanned such information as they de-
sired. Mr.. Dcomis had worked out
plan which probably viii be put into !
practice. but he declined to say just
now what il was. Mr.. LOOMS was
asked about the visit of j. p. Morgan
10 the president yesterday. He re-
piled that it related practically en-
1irely, as he understood X, to the af-
fairs of the Hankow railroad and its
concessions. In response to an inquiry
he said he thought there was no dis
position on the part of the Chinese /
government to seize the road and its /
concessions. China had made q cash
offer for the property. but he did not |
know whether il would be accepted by !
the American-China Development COM !
pany or not.
Asphalt Decision.
Mr. Loomis had learned with interest !
Of the decision of the federal court of |
Venezuela against the New York & /
Bermudez Asphalt company annuIling |
the Hamilton concessions.
How viii that decision affect the !
mission of Judge Calhoun. who has |
gone to Venezuela as the presidents |
commissioner to investigate the asphalt |
cases among other matters?' Mr.. |,
LOOMS was asked.
1T certainly viii enhance it's i'm
portance.' he replied. But I do not |
know that il viii otherwise affect it."
Mr. LOOmis expects to go to Wash |
duties as assistant secretary of state. 1
Or. HolIander Saw Roosevelt
DIR. Jacob II. HoIlander of the Johns |
Hopkins university at Baltimore. ar 4
rived here on the same train with Mr. /
LOOMS. but both he and Mr. Loomis |
said their visits were merely a coinci- l
dence- DR. Hollander who several I
months ago was appointed special /
commissioner by the president to make |
an inquiry into the financial affairs of /
san Domingo, came to Oyster Bay |
10 talk over with the president the re- !
suits he had thus far achieved. He /
made an informal report on his work |
today. but his written report will not |
be submitted until after he shall have |
concluded his labors. Dr. Hollander /
made one trip 70 San Domingo last |
spring, and he has just returned from a !
trip TO Europe where he went to con- |
fer with the powers holding claims !
against San Domingo and to study the |
history and nature Of the claims He /
did not deem il proper to disclose the /
character of the claims or even the
names of the powers which hold fhen,