Show TRADE IN MANCHURIA Portland Chamber of Commerce Appeals Ap-peals to Washington Portland Or Dec Aeknowledgmen has been made by the Department or State at Washington D C of the re I cclpt of the resolution recently passed by lie POllIJnll Gnambor of Conmercn requesting re-questing the Government to use all possl blc effort for the maintenance of unre stricter commercial Intercourse between this country and Manchuria The follow Ing was received from Acting Secretary of State Loomis today The subject Is one of the greatest Jin portance and has occupied the close at tentlon oC President McKlnley and or President Roosevelt for several ycaia The object which you propose IH onc to which this Government has steadily ad bored and has pursued through elrcum sliinccs of peculiar Jlfdctilty and em barrassment 1 can only aMiirc you II 111 authorize you to assure your associate that I the President will not lose sight of the Important Interests to which lie hils already devoted so much limo and care |