Show foreign powers have ged the estrangement washington july 27 some doubt Is expressed in official circles whether it will bs possible to obtain cainas chinas consent to another treaty with the united states providing for even the exclusion ot chinese laborers from this country the state department is aware of throughout china on the whole subject and now that the immigration treaty with china has been allowed to lapse without the of a new agreement reports have reached here that china is inclined hereafter to refuse to sign any similar convention cainas chinas position appears to be that the exclusion of chinese citizens from a friendly country is in itself a disgrace and while she cannot ignore the laws of a foreign power providing for such exclusion she can refuse ato sanction it or become part of it by concluding a treaty involving such restrictions A year ago it is said it would have been easy to conduct negotiations with china for the exclusion of chinese laborers only now however it Is understood der stood the chinese officials are disposed to regard the signing of such a treaty beneath the dignity of their government the rason tor the assumption at peking of this now attitude is not quite clear to the here though in some circles it Is attributed tri buted to the influence of foreign powers shanghai july 27 the native bankers here are calling a meeting to discuss the proposal to boycott the in ler national banking corporation the international banking corporation was organized in june 1891 under the laws of connecticut receiving its charter by a special act of the legislature it was then the only american institution formed for the banking of doing business entirely in purpose countries with authority to establish foreign branches the corporation wag made the agent of the united states government rovern ment for the receipt of pay meals to this government on account boxer indemnity the chinese of the stockholders of the corporation were the leading selected from carefully of the manufacturers and exporters states the institution was united at with a bur among the clelea alua of represented resented in the concern were new reu cancin baltimore philadelphia york nati pittsburg Putts burg dayton cleveland columbus detroit and st louis lc l c chicago and pacific coast southern the well represented equally cities were president of the international the corporation when it was agent of the united states madette government in 1902 was tart john J cook was the corporation attorney and james S acaron was its at shanghai agent present officers of the corpora the chairman thomas H hubbard tion are directors and of the board of james S fearon alco president president and J D lee maeer the main offices of the cor atlon are at no I 1 wall street new directors include sir H th ork alten george crocker jas montague edwin gould isaac gug fearon harriman thomas H E H hubbard H E huntington and sir william van horn CHINESE BOYCOTT stop orders said to have been received san francisco july 27 local merchants interested in trade with china have been rather anxious over a rumor afloat that the chinese boycott against american goods had gone into effect and that all the big milling and flour companies had received stop orders from their agents in the orient and that existing contracts had been cancelled this simmered down upon investigation vesti gation to the action of a big chinese importing firm countermanding its orders given to local milling companies for shipment by the next steamer for the orient the reason given being the receipt of stop orders from china other local firms assert that the chinese boycott does not interfere with the trade and the volume of exports remains the same china buys about worth of foreign goods annually of this amount about comes from the united states of which about comes from san francisco of the latter amount nearly one third is flour about barrels being exported ASSETS AND liabilities of tha first national bank of topeka washington july 27 the first report of the receiver of tho first national bank of jopska kansas which closed its doors july ad has been received by the comptroller of the currency the classifies the assets of the bank as follows good doubtful worthless liabilities individual deposits of deposit due to national banks due to other banks and bankers 12 unpaid drafts outstanding other liabilities total in submitting this report the receiver states that he has found much difficulty in estimating the value of the devlin collaterals collate rals and that his estimate or such collaterals collate rals may not even approximately indicate what may be finally realized |