The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-20
Believed to Have Advised
De|IIgerents TO Make
Concessions.
APPROACHED JAPAN FIRST.
ShoWed Both That Further Fight
Ing Would Be Costly
and Useless.

Barren Kaneke's Many Visits - Oyster hay
Now Explained President IL Believed
70 Have Induced tho Mikado, Through
His Financial Agent, to Make the
Terms Easier-Bareu Rosen Leaves
Sagamore IIili I'm Smiling Mood. and
the President Seems Happy After
the Hour and . Halt Conference
OYSTER BAY. N. Y; Aug. le.-With the
arrival here Of Baron Itoeen at $50 O'Clock
this afternoon the scsne Of the peace negotia-
tions Il again shifted to Oyster Bay. and
Just a. on Aug. 5, after the MayAower core.
monies, when everybody believed that
peace was sure to come. so to-day after
tho President's conference there 10 be.
Lief that he has succeeded In casting oil
ON the troubled waters, averting dis
astrous ending o! the negotiations.
What the proposal was that the President
laid before the Russians he has declined
to make public. Baron Rosen declined
to give hint, but both the President and
Baron Rosen were very cheerful after the
Interview, and when Baron Rosen and Prince
Kondachen drove away from sagamore
Hill they looked and professed them
selves to Be in the best Of spirl.s
Baron Kanekos visit yesterday is now
partly applicable. 1t Is believed that the
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laid before the President by Baron Kaneko.
and that by the Presidents persuasions.
Baron Kaneko, who is constantly In com.
munioation with the Mikado, has succeeded
In enabling the President to promise the
Russians certain additional concessions,
though the extent Of them cannot now be
known.
But it Is believed that on the other hand
the President has earnestly urged upon
Baron Rosen the necessity for some further
concessions on the Russian side 20 that
peace. which the President has 80 much at
heart, may be brought about.
Baron Rosen will lay the Presidents
suggestions before Mr.. Witte, his senior,
tomorrow. and Mr.. Witte, in turn, will lay
them by cable before the Gear. 1t Is eI-
pected, whom the conference reassembles
at Portsmouth on Tuesday, 1t will not break
up, as was supposed, but will have new
matter to discuss and will continue in
session.
Tho President would In no wisn discuss
the conference between himself and
Baron Rosen, but the Presidents gen.
eral ideas on tho situation are pretty well
known. Tho President really and sim
cerely believes that peace is the best
thing for the two belligerents a. we'll as
for the world at large. 1t 10 believed
that the President announced to Baron
Rosen his firm conviction that Russia can
gain little by continuing to fight. He does
not mean Russia should humiliate herself
and accept peace at any price, but he be-
lieves that il Russia allows herself to be led
by her pride to fight on she as we'll as
Japan will suffer incalculable losses to no
good purpose.
The President, 1t is believed, felt con-
WINGED that, regardless Of statements pub
lished to the contrary, Russia has resigned
herself to the fact that she will have to
pay some indemnity. But It y belle we'd that
Baron Kaneko he has succeeded
In persuading the Japanese Government
to bring that indemnity within the bounds
Of possibility for Russia. The President.
It is thought, worked hard with Baron
Kaneko and his facts and figures during
the Baron's many visits here, but in the
end. it u supposed, the President succeeded
in his endeavors.
The Mikado's great respect for the Presi-
dent Is we'll known and he would be likely
to ooucede to the President what he could
never bring himself to oonoede to Russia
without outside persuasion.
The President. through Assistant Score
tary Peirce, has been in constant touch
with the negotiations, and the secret pro-
posal he made to Baron Rosen to-day. it
IL supposed, no held in reserve against =
possible crisis such az came at the close OF
Yesterdays session Of the conference.
He has, in all probability, pointed out
10 Baron Rosen that, indemnity and all,
IL will be cheaper in the end for Russia to
.nd the conflict and TO devote herself to
improvements and to the develop.
ment Of her vast resources; that the first
hing Russia should do Ia TO build up .
navy. He has shown the Russians; it h
thought, that without . navy that Same
of Sakhalin IL Of very small value and
Is according to the Presidents idea It
takss a generation to build up q navy no
suggested that Aakhalin Is not
worth tothering about.
Tho TrAin - The Csatury