The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20
ROOSEVELT
 GOT BUSY President is Man of the Hour. CONFERRED WITH ROSEN Strenuous One is Backed by
 All the Powers. Just as All Hopes For Peace Were Dwindling Rough Rider Jumped In and Optimism Is Now
 Expressed.
CONFERRED WITH R0sEN

a rupture of the peace conference at F Portsmouth, He Is engaged in a su- preme effort to Induce the envoys of the belligerent governments to com promise their differences and reach an agreement that will result in just ard lasting peace"
 In this effort he has the active and cordial support of treat Britain. France and Germany. Tremendous and world wide pressure is being brought to bear on the governments at St. Petersburg and Tokio not to permit the Washington conference to fall of af- firmative result. It can be said that there is good ground for the hope that 1t will not fall.
 Baron de Rosen, Russian Ambassa- dor to the United States and second of the Russian emperor's envoys to the peace conference. was with President Roosevelt an hour this afternoon at Sagamore Hill. He came to Oyster
 Bay by invitation of the President. not merely to discuss with him the situation but to have presented to him by the President a proposition which 1t is hoped may resolve the differences which have arisen between the pleni- potentiaries of the two governments. After his conference with the Presi- dent Baron Rosen left immediately for his summer home at Magnolia, Mass, WHSTc AC anu w itbNb AAO PAChipS- tentiary. expect to spend Sunday. Neither President Roosevelt nor Baron Rosen would discuss even In the most general terms the details or re- suit of their conference. The ambas- sador will present the Presidents prop osition to Nj. witte tonight and the liklihood Is that it will be transmit ted to Emperor Nicholas.
 On the result oI It's consideration will depend the fate of the peace confer ence. It is not improbable that before the envoys meet next Tuesday morn- ing 1t may be known with some de- gree of dsfiniten esf Aether there Is to be peace fn the FyR East or a con- tinuance of the war.
 Until the present time President Roosevelt has refrained from any ac- ton even by indirection that might be construed at Interference by the pre- liminaries. He announced at the be- ginning of the negotiations that neith- CT by word nor act would he partici- pate in the proceedings of the con- ference although he made it clear to the envoys that he would be ready at any time to assist them in a proper way in the work which they had been designated by their respective emper- ors to undertake
 Tn anticipation, however. of failure of the envoys to agree on certain of the articles which they had agreed to consider and in expectation that he might be appealed to by one side or the other before the conclusion of the con ference the President has been in com munication with the great neutral powers. His purpose was to enlist their support of a final effort to secure an honorable peace. With King Ed ward he communicated because Great Britain is a practical ally of Japan and with President Loubet because France is the nearest friend of Russia. Ger many. too, was appealed to and Elm peror William Is exerting his influence for peace.
 Through Mir. Griscom, American min ister to Tokio the President has also been working, but 1t cannot be ascer- tained whether his efforts have been directed toward a reduction of the de- mands of Japan or not. It Is surmis7 ed. however, that he has urged the Japanese Government so to modify its terms as to render 1t easior for Rus sia to accede to them.
 KanekO i'm Touch.
 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 a week he was in confer ence with the President last evening. Neither he nor the President would dis close the nature of their interview, but 1t is significant that the Baron had scarcely started for New York before the Presidents interest in the negotia- lions at Portsmouth became active. He sent a long and important communi- cation to M Witte and Baron Rosen
 Secretary Plerece's reply to the mes- sage was communicated to the Presi- dent by telephone from the executive office in oyster Bay village Then ensued a long distance conference be- tween the President and the Russian envoys. the message being transmitted through Secretary Barnes here and through Assistant Secretary Peirce at Portsmouth The President invited M Witte to send a trusted envoy, pre- ferably Ambassador de Rosen to Saga more Hill in order that he might pre- sent to him for the consideration of the Russian mission a proposition of the highest importance The invita- ton of the President was accepted and the details were soon arranged.
 Baron de Rosen. accompanied by Prince Koudacheff, as his secretary, left portsmouth early this morning. He went to Magnolia. Mass, the seat of his embassy. during the summer. and thence to Boston. where he boarded a limited train for New York. At 2:45 o'clock this afternoon the train made a snecial stop at New Rochelle, N Y. where Ambassador Rosen and the nrince left 1t and boarded the naval Hacbt Svlph, which the President had dIrected be sent to New Rochelle to convey the Russian envoys to Oyster Bay.
 retarv. the Sylph entered Oyster Bay ana cast anchor below Sagamore Hill at D. m. Five minutes later the Presidents callers were en route to the nier in the Sylphs motor boat. As he landed. Baron de Rosen was almost brusoue in his refusal to discuss his noIssion. They entered one of the president's carriages which was await ing them and were driven to Sagamore HJn.
 They remained with the President about an hour. About the end of the