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Show TO TREAT WITH CHINA. President May Propose an International Commission to Condnct Negotiations. President McKinley is considering the advisability of proposing to the powers the organization of an international interna-tional congress, which shall sit in China and recommend to the several governments represented a permanent solution of pending questions. j.iie presiuent recognizes the fact j that the duties United States Minister I Conger would be called upon to perform ; would be so exacting and arduous that it would be unfair to ask him to take j the additional burden of discussing a i method of settlement of the matters in , controversy; that Special Commissioner j Rockhill will be too busily employed in j obtaining information and in communi-. communi-. cation with high Chinese officials to give time to them, and that d.irect negotiation between the powers is likely to prove unsatisfactory and give rise to complications which might Otherwise be avoided. |