The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-08-21
DOVE OF PEACE
IS M0ULTING
Poor Bird has an Anxious
Time al Portsmouth
PRESIDENTS OLIVE LEAF
Chisl Executive Has Prevented
a Rupture In the
Negotiations.

PORTSMOUTH \. ~ Ans. -, -
The siianr-s q isaafr hatr nninaiiri'
b i,sra iniFss-i ~ rfrshirai ii"sss'
vsiiis ariiua in siaisins iHia ihs
hFuash Ia e issi hrf,'c riHiratuf o. in'
dnrr iiso sauinE nsunifirs o. rniuiHe'
inisa thrif -irfsvsnriiiahie difnrnors,-
bot 10. result is siiii in susi,rnss uss
ultimate dsrisiun - lhs Issue has i,ass'
81 fFom thr iirnippirniiafius o. ihrif
ufinrii.ais. ffeui i'aftsn 9th g. ~ 70
irfsiufg ani prfiars in = lsssrf "a
ient o. Tutyo.
Although ihrrr ar collateral sri'
esnr-s that pressure i.sih 10 i'Txshisni
Roosevelt abd neuiTai psa-fs. inrlnd'
ing iapan's aiiy. Uf-at nfiiain. who's
minister. Eir claude Ma~iuaah acs
eoriins g. adtlsss nvrit~i hrrr. had .
long ~rufetsnrr fr~irrisy aficfp"on
Nth Mr. kaisura. The iapancss PRO
mief. l. siiii beinx skrfis'i ~ Tokyo
O. indnrr Japan q. msirratr hrr de.
manis. fhrfr l. aisp frasun o. believe
that President Roosevelt Was ablc AZ
this interview with ilarpn d. Rosen
60 practically communicate o. the lat
irr's seninF. N. White. Iaran's ire
duclblc minimum what shr would
yi-ii. hut The ppini beyond which she
would not g.. Whistler an actual
basis II cnmpromi.. vas proposed by
the president cannot BE- stated definite
ly. The only thing that can b. affirm.
81 positively l. that II Russia refuses
Go act upon suggestion of proposition
Of President Roosevelt thu peace coa.
ference will end In failure
And In the Russian camp little en-.
courugcmeni h given. Baron lie Rosen
aft.r an all night ride from Oyster
Bay Immediately went into conference
with NJ. wltic They rrmainei clos.
cted together for almost three hours.
during which the whole situation wa.
reviewed. Baron de Rosen communi.
Gated 20 his chief the presidents mes.
sage. and II was transmitted 90 tile
emperor. together with N. Whites rec
ommendation. No clcw a. the nature
Of this Recommendation has transplrci
But IL can be stated that NJ White no
matter how he personally may view
the proposition. IL distinctly pessimis.
tic as 20 the character 81 the response
which will come from ST. Petersburg
To a confidential friend lac offered
little hope OF a change IA the situation
The japanese. II ls firmly believed.
cling 20 the substance. II not the form.
OF this demand for remuneration for
the cost Of We war;
Perhaps they are willing TO decrease
the sum asked. hut substantial COM
pensation, under whatever gulsc II Is
obtained, they decline TO relinqul.h.
And they are also firm upon the ccS.
sion of Sakhalln. by the transfer OF
the southern branch OF the Chinese
Eastern railway first TO Japan for re-
linquishment 10 China, payment for
the maintenance OF the Russian prls-
oners and the surrender OF the Russian
warships II is possible to figure out a
total transfer to japan in money and
property OF about S250,000.0O0. But
this is the limit.
The Japanese, as usual, are very re.
tfcent and very quiet, and II Is Impos-
sible to obtain from them the least in
dication Of their view Of the change in
the situation produced by the presi.
dents action.
The japanese view of the situation
Is authoritatlvely but rather humor-
ously stated thus:
'The result will be known soon. It
Is useless to speculate. AS well for
the physician to give his opinion of the
sex Of the unborn infant. When the
child is born we will be able to tell
whether It is boy or girl. Emperor
Nicholas decision, upon which the fate
of the conference seems now to hang,
will, according to the best informed
Russians, depend upon conditions at
home, and these conditions they do not
believe are propituous'
1t is stated on good authority that
the feature Of the proposition of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, communicated through
Baron Rosen to NJ. Witte and trans
mitted by the latter to Emperor Mich
olas, was based upon the principle Of
arbitration. Whether the proposal con-
templates arbitration of all the arti-
cles upon which the plenipotentiaries
have failed to agree o.. only upon the
question of indemnity cannot be stat
ell with positiveness, but. it is more
than probable that 1t relates only to
indemnity or to indemnity and the ces-
sion Of the island of Sakhalin. Neither
is 1t possible to say whether the presi-
dent has yet made similar PROPOSE
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