Show REP lES TO POWERS I Uncl Sam Throws His Hand Open on the T ble DIPLOMATS REFUSE TO TALK It Is Known However that the German Ger-man Proposal Has Failed of ApprovaL Ap-proval by Our Government Declination Decli-nation Conveyca in i a Manner that I Cannot Give Offense Tho Idea of a I Commission is Again Brought For j I I ward All but Ono Regiment of I American Soldiers to Leave China I I Washington Sept 21The United States Government has made full anil complete answers to the various Important Im-portant Inquiries that have been addressed ad-dressed to It by the powers relative to the Chinese trouble Moreover it hus gone farther and has made t disclosure of all Its purposes and as a member oC the Administration puts I It has I thrown Its hand opcn on the table This I action was taken after the Cabinet meeting today and a luncheon l at the White House that followed served to reduce orm the decision to the ultimate ormnEPLIES REPLIES GIVEN MINISTERS At halfpast 3 oclock Minister Wit called by appointment upon Acting k Secretary IIlll and was handed n memorandum memo-randum embodying the response of the United States Government to the request re-quest of Prince Chlng that Mr Conger or some other person bo Immediately empowered to begin negotiations with thu Chinese authorities for a llnal settlement set-tlement The Minister came away with n dlssatlsllcd expression upon Ma face Next came 1 Thlebaut the French I Charge A few minutes conversation sufllced to Impart to him orally an answer I an-swer to his verbal inquiry I ANSWER TO GERMAN NOTE Then Baron Sternberg the German Charge who had been notified of the F readiness of the State department to make answer to thc German note called and was given that answer He hastened has-tened away to cable It to his Government Govern-ment The department then sent the answer to the Russian Inquiry forwarded by messenger and wired cablegrams containing con-taining the substance o the answers to Its diplomatic representatives abroad Thus closed one of the most Interesting important phases of the Chinese entanglement I Tho State department absolutely re I fused to make any statement as to tho I nature of the answers taking the ground that to do so would be n violation viola-tion of the diplomatic proprieties How j over as It was calculated that all of al these ansxVers will have reached their destinations abroad by tomorrow it was promised that the text of the communications com-munications should be given to the press tomorrow afternoon The Ministers iHlnlstclB and Charges who received re-ceived the messages here tookthe same attitude The President himself had given Instructions that every effort hould be made to maintain secrecy in his tatter untlj the official disclosure FAILED OF APPROVAL With all this It Is known that the German proposal thai necoiJaUonowith i Chlnanic HbferreTf trncll the Chine responsible ivr cno JeklQgo0 f have been surrenderctrftrchu l allies has failed of approval by our Government The declination has been conveyed in a manner that cannot give offense but it Is believed that the United States Government cannot recognize the principle prin-ciple that n country may be called upon to surrender Its own citizens to a foreign for-eign power or powers for punishment The GoVernmenc will not relinquish the Idea of the ultimate punishment of the offenders when they are properly Identified Iden-tified but I does not believe that the pursuit of this object should put a stop to all negotiations PEACE COMMISSION ISSION The Idea of a commission to adjust the differences with Chlnal Is I again brought forward and it Is suggested that a commission on the part of the United States may cither form part of the joint international commission I which It Is hoped will be appointed i for this purpose or In the event of the r failure of the effort to secure Joint action ac-tion then the members can go on and deal directly with China for a settlement settle-ment The names of Minister Conger Gen James H Wilson and Mr Rockhlll aro mentioned lu this connection cannecton It is believed that the outcome from l I military point of todaya action will be the withdrawal of all but i the rrwai al one regiment regi-ment of the American troops from China to Mania where they can bo held ready to return In an emergency Gen Chaffee probably l will remain In China in command of the force there which will be regarded simply a a legation le-gation guard One fact concerning the United States answers that was learned Qfll can is that they contain no new proposition simply clear away the debris of unanswered Inquiries |