Show ABDUL HAMID WILL PAY He Has Undertaken to Meet Engagements Engage-ments with Undo Sam Washington April IIt can be stated stat-ed on authority that the negotiations respecting the American missionary claims arc progressing in the moat satisfactory manner In the view of the Government The department lias received I re-ceived from Mr Grlacom the United I States Charge a cablegram announcing piat the Porte has undertaken to meet all of the engagements made with the United Slates Minister regarding the payment of the claims set up on account ac-count of the destruction of the American Ameri-can mission property In Turkey It Is not stated now when the payments pay-ments will be made and It Is surmised that owing to the many obligations of I greater magnitude pressing upon the Porte some time may yet elapse beforetime I before-time money is actually Jn hand Mr Grlscom also confirmed the press reports as to the publication by the Porte of an Irade authorizing the re ubullding I of the destroyed missions at Harpoot and Harsom and the construc I tlon of an annex to the Robert college the great American theological school jln Constantinople This action of the Turkish authorities Is regarded as of < an importance far exceeding the mere payment of 500000 on account of property prop-erty destroyed by a mob It amounts I to a recognition of the right of our missionaries to build their schools in Turkey and insures them against what they regarded as a gradual but absolute abso-lute exclusion from the domains oC the Sultan On the whole the officials here regard Mr GrlscomB cable as marking the safe passage of what might have been regarded as a critical point In the ne gotiations andteel confident that in addition ad-dition to this notable concession > the United States will secure all of Its Just claims i I |