Show I mm LEX Y in III Official Telegram Says Chinas Empress 1 L J COMMISSION IS PROPOSED I REVIVES PLAN FOR IOB SETTLEMENT L London Nov 27 A special Dis Dispatch Dispatch Dispatch patch from front Shanghai says an official telegram tm bom rpm Sian Pu FIl confirms the report of the th illness ol ot the dowager empress s and hoi her condition has I i I considerably con worse New Nw York Nov 24 A 4 dispatch from Washington ton to the Times Imea sayat Mr McKinley only 11 awaits of the reported disagreement ment among the tIe ministers at l J to W propose to the powers a plan Plait fer tor taking the tion out out ot of f the hands hand of the envoys and entrusting it Jt to the commission ers era who w will meet In III some BOme European capital Tie The prel president ent has I s no official infer mation of ot the reports All AR that is Known however indicates that it is a serious difficulty Should the differ b n of course will not nt be broached brett e but UTI the state stae de department has fio expectation that this thil will wm be Ute tile case ease Seth Low Lo in Jn an probability will wIlI one of ot the be commissioners named by the United three States The plan is to have hae from front each country This is b l not a ne new Idea of the presidents it is the plan whirls which was ras favored at Washing ton from froni the first The other powers thought differently and the president pr yielded I f Lee i p mke ke or harmony The plan plait of the other powers po ers has been tried and apparently proved a failure and on receipt of the first definite in formation proving this failure the pres sires ident will win revive relve and press his original scheme Commissioners Commissi ers Were Chosen The administration intended to pro pose a It conference at Brussels or Ber Her lin tin The president had bad even gone so far as to select the American commis who it is now said were Seth Low General Wilson and Minister Conger Conge with W W Rockhill as sec rotary But the European powers insisted that the ministers to China Ch Ina being beins on the ground could uld reach an agreement more quickly and would understand the situation better The United States was obliged to yield to the powers for Ol two reasons The first was to have objected ted to a It scheme which commanded such gen eral assent among the find which nobody else questioned would have placed the United States in the light of an obstructionist which W wa as the character the president was WS most anxious to avoid In the second place when the other powers DOwers were s so 5 con of the judicial poWers powders of their respective ministers It would Wave have seemed like an understood slight on Minister Conger for the U e United States to be the only one expressing doubt Season Reason For Por leniency According to the Washington corre the Journal of Commerce the attitude of the state in I favor of a moderate indemnity to be paid by China for fur recent outrages js ja governed by bJ the belief bellef that th a prompt prom h a 1 it n vent quarrels among the powers lead H l ad ing tag up perhaps J 8 to the partition of ot China Chin or armed conflicts con l its between those I having he strongest st military uy forces The Chinese revenues arnot alenot well OP ot except eX pt the tM customs under Sir Robert Hart and nd the meeting of an excessive Indemnity would require re reorganization organization If this be escaped the United Stats Stat s will not be the suf fevers f in the long run for f its citizens are likely to play an important part in m reorganization reorganisation If the th other powers continue to insist upon an indemnity which is obviously beyond beyn the power of China to pay in principal the United States Stales may ma find it advisable to support i ia a plan of fiscal organization in China at once Better Than long Squabble It is felt fett that it might t be better In some contingencies to provide in ad advance advance vance ranee lot for an international nal board of fis Its fiscal cal control rather than leave the mat ter tel to future conflicts Among the pow por powers ers era If provision is made at the pres present present ent time it may be possible Ible to provide for a proper balance of power and for fora a policy cy which will be acceptable to the Chinese imperial government Several projects for International control of Chinese finance have been Men laid before the state department but have not fallen within the scope of the policy which has thus far been supported by the administration If Jf it proves pro im impracticable impracticable I practicable to to bring the other powers to a basis of moderation which will wilt urn JIm it the indemnity to an on amount mount which can be paid in full tuu within wj thin a R few fa years it may then be necessary nee to take up the subject of fiscal cal control of the internal taxes of or China as well welt as the customs |