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Show A liiCiv Hil (IN! Ths Almond-eyed Mongolian No'iScs Uuc'.o Ear.i That ex -Sen .v. or Elmr li Kot Ya-ittd. IIIS EEC02D 13 AGAINST EIM Always Having Eeen Pound on the CLi- j nece Qu-suoii, He Vi'i!!, of Course, j Mot Bo Acccp ablo. Washington. April 20. A reporter! this morning called at the Chiue.se le-j g.itiou here and had an interview with Minister Yen in legard to the declination declina-tion of his government to receive Senator Sena-tor liiair as the accredited representative representa-tive of ihe United M ites. Mr. Yen said, through tho interpreter, interpre-ter, that he had received a cablegram from the Chinese foreign ollice, which he was instructed to lay before Score- j I tary Blaine without delay, expressing j ' the unw iliingness of the emperor to receive re-ceive Blair. Other than this, Mr. Yen had received no instructions, w ritten or otherwise from his government mi tho subject. The exact language of the cablegram, or whether the reasons for this m tion were given, he failed to state, l'ersonally he had a very high opinion of Senator Bhiir. At the time Senator Biair was nominated nom-inated miuister to China. Mr. Yen was in Peru, to w hich government he is also the representative of China, and did not return to the United Slates until early in the present month. He never had , occasion to ascertain w hat had been Senator Blair's attitude toward China ?r Chinese residents in this country, and not until his return had tho senator s utterances on the Chinese questions (is reported in the Congressional Congres-sional Kceord been 1 rotight to his attention. at-tention. The miuister conveyed the. impression, ho simply stated the facts lo his government and aside from that had not sought tointlueuce its decision, either f.iuorably to the senator or un- favorably. This action of tho Chinese authorities authori-ties has not crcal"d the least excitement excite-ment here, as it has been anticipated by many from tho lirst. The proceedings proceed-ings are not very unusual and cannot be construed as indicating any unfriendly un-friendly feeling towards tins government. govern-ment. Among tho departmental officials there is u general inoi-positiou lo discuss dis-cuss the subject, of Blair's rejection. Still it is evident that there is no general gen-eral desire to magnify the incident into the proportions of a diplomatic run-lure. run-lure. It. is an established rule of diplomacy di-plomacy that a n ation is not obliged to accept a minister who is not a persona grata and that the rejection on that account ac-count can not on construed into nil intended in-tended u (front to Hie dignity of the nation na-tion which sends the minis, ur. Altogether the opinion in oil'icial circles cir-cles 'S general that the United States is lo :ks(;wii conduct stopped from resenting re-senting Minister Blair's rej ctuin, and that after waiting for a length of time sulliciuit to niaiuLtiin the nat'oual dignity, dig-nity, a new minister will be appointed by President Harrison. what m.Aii: says aru't it. Clin AdO, April 20. Kx-Senatnr Blair, tiie new minister to China, arrived ar-rived hero this morning and was questioned ques-tioned regarding to the report that the Chitn S ! government had .sulim'tled to the department of state a format protest pro-test against his being sent to China. "I have received no ol'icial notice of such a protest," said Mr. Biair, "all that I know about it is what 1 have seen in the newspapers. I mav lie permitted per-mitted to doubt its correctness for the reasons that t he state department knows that I am en route to China, and if it decided to recall me, it would have done so without delay." "I shall not stop here any longer than I originally intended in order to awail official information. If I hear nothing from Washington by tomorrow, 1 shall proceed to San Frauoi-co and sail from that point. I do not think of course that there are any good reasons why China should " object to me, neither dn 1 helii've the Chinese government thinks so. During my service ill congress whatever I did, I did from convictions, whatever I did iu the matter of Chinese immigration also received the indorsement of the government govern-ment ahd the government is responsible, responsi-ble, not I personally. 'I'is incredible that any nation would seek to enforce personal liability, especially at this late day." |