Show CONSIDERED BY CABINET Proposal of Viceroys Discussed by President and Advisers Washington June 20TIme State department de-partment also was made acquainted with thc terms of the agreement between be-tween the Consuls and the Viceroys j I looking to the protection of foreign I f j Interests In the southern provinces In II i China The first step to this end was I Indicated In Secretary Hays cablegram cable-gram of lust Wednesday to the American Ameri-can Consuls in China authorizing them to lake direct action instead of waiting on possible communications with Minister Conger Thus authorized ConsulGeneral Goodnow at Shanghai and probably several others In the Aouth began negotiations with the Viceroys and Tim Tals of their respective re-spective districts The outcome was thc nine articles of agreement Thc Cabinet failed to ratify the agreement at todays meeting In fact the document In Its Inception and various stages of development was regarded I re-garded as properly open to such doubt as to warrant the belief that the foreign for-eign Consuls as a body certainly never entered Into the agreement NO steps were taken even to ascertain by direct Inquiry of ConsulGeneral I Confer whether the agreement was authentic and he had signed it It was simply assumed that If he had done so hewould have acquainted thc department de-partment being in ready cable communication com-munication So the matter was dropped i |