Show 9 4 PEACEThEATY 1stI11 he real What Agreement Signed By giVe a Envoys Peking Is Iristinas j J I Ift tel TERMS FOR NEGOTIATIONS L youE CCptabI f th 1Tt Will Be Laid Before the Chinese C j ye3trrJi Officials lUither as a Matter of Form ir as China Will Bo Obliged to Ac a cept Its Provisions Tho Way Will re hand 1 Then Bo Cleared For the Initiation d 9 of Fresh Negotiations at Peking For a Final Settlement Between Ministers and Chinese I Washington Dec C All the Em o 2Stra hassadors and nearly a majority oC O2 vthe Jiilnisters resident In Washington called upon Secretary Hay today this an be being diplomatic day In the case of l the representatives of those powers Interested In the Chinese question It lat Js understood there were some cx chanKCH on that subject respecting the latest developments in Peking a There has been no word from Mr Conger since the dispatch to him oC I Ills Instructions to sign the agreement It Is assumed hero that several days hjust elapse before the formal signatures signa-tures of nil the powers Interested can I 3 ia he obtained to the agreement Then VI3 it will be laid before Prince Ching and I MAIN ST 1 Hung Chang who probably will he I a nupplementcd by the Viceroys of Nan kin and Hankow the latter acting by a Jelegraph constituting the board of 4 commissioners torepresent the Chinese Government Thin agreement is not a peace treaty in any sense of the term It Is nothing J hut a statement of the terms on which the powers will negotiate with China for a final settlement It will be laid before the Chinese ofllclals rather as a L matter of formfor there is not the least doubt entertained that they will be obliged Co accept its provisions Still they may require a week or two for Its consideration and then the way = = will be cleared for the Initiation of i4i4 + H44 fresh negotiations at Peking between tile Ministers and the Chlhcsc commission commis-sion for a final settlement |