Show DESIRES AN ARMISTiCE t Novel Proposition Submitted to the State Bureau by the Chinese Minister to the United States Requested Uncle Sam Not to Send More Troops Into China Until Li Hung Chang Could Reach Peking and Bring About Cessation Cessa-tion of the DisordersReply Was That United States Must Protect Pro-tect Its Officials and Citizens Washington June 25Thc chlqf development de-velopment today In the Chinese situation situa-tion was the effort of the Chinese Minister Min-ister Wu Ting Fang to secure an armistice In operailon of American troops until LI Hung Chang could reach PekIng and bring about a ces lon of the disorders The propoBltlon Js 1 ratror a novel one and is based upon representations of the VIccrqys of the Important provinces prov-inces Qf tho YangtscKlang valley that they can maintaIn order without the aid of foreign troops and that the presence of the foreigners would act merely as nn incentive to disorder CANNOT BIND ITSELF Minister Wu brought these representations repre-sentations to the attention of Secretary Hay who consulted the President The latter decision us subsequently cone con-e > vd to tIlt Minister wos that while the assurances of the Viceroys for continued con-tinued quiet were fully appreciated the United States could not hInd itself not to send Its force to points where disorder dis-order actually sliild and where the safety of our oillclnls and citizens was endaugerd NO WORD FROM KEMPFF Secretary Long said when he left the 1 1 Th 4 J I I Navy department for the day that nothing had come from Admiral KempfC on the casualllcs of the first engagement of the American marines with the Chinese or on the outcome of the second engagement which was to have occurred yesterday or Saturday BELATED MESSAGES I Tho only dispatch received by the Secretary was a belated one from Admiral Ad-miral ICempu Asking for instructions as to whether he should cooperate with the other naval forces In taking the Taku forts This must havo been cent some days ago a t4 the Taku forts were taken the middle of last week Under limo circumstances there was no occasion for answering tho Admirals request as he already hind been advised ad-vised of the general purpose of this Government to rfct concurrently with the other powers In tile I protection or American Interests NO WORD FROM CONGER The State deportment remained throughout the day without information informa-tion from Minister ongr or any other source the only dispatch being re colv < from Consul Jbhn Goodnow at Shanghai saying he had heard nothing from Peking since Ui 14th instant On the whole the day was onn of anxiety and x lack of doOnlls Information on the main points j f |