Show ISSUE CALL STATE convention TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER ath AND ath the state democratic met at the headquarters in he progress building yesterday and fixed upon the date for the state convention there will probably be a two days convention september ath and ath the idea Is to perfect the organization and decide upon platform the first day devoting the second day to the nomination of candidates there was a good representation present when mr moyle called the committee to order at 10 the following responded to the roll call J H moyle chairman J M cohen secretary W H dale treasurer C F strong beaver county J D call box elder county T H cutler cache county I 1 C Tho rosen cache county R W barnes davis county leal N harmon emery county F A hammond grand county L R letcher proxy iron county W H proxy juab county joshua josh ua A greenwood mallard county samuel francis morgan county W H dale proxy rich county B T lloyd 0 W powers J H moyle salt lake county james P Christla cesen M F murray proxy sanpete San pete county jt C lund proxy devler county ward stevenson thoele tooele county 0 F malmberg S A king utah county R bridge wasatch county E W wilson proxy washington county E M conroy weber county chairman moyle asked it the committee desired to embody in the call the nomination of a candidate tor senator at the convention but no action was taken in regard to the maffer which was not debated and the call will accordingly say nothing about the candidate tor senator the apportionment will be the same asat the special congressional convention which will make delegates to the convention THE TSUNG LI YAMEN ft om china the long lived empire the appointment appoint men f for with the non irresponsible board of the tsung ll yamen or foreign office must be made beforehand the minister and his secretaries arc always kept waiting and the inner reception room swarms with gaping attendants tend ants during an interview once he american minister made a ua protest and refused to conduct any legot lations while there were underlings in the footo and as it was business that the chinese government fished conducted the minions were summarily cast outcast out cast out to the other side of hinged latticed doors where they scuffled audibly tor first places at cracks and knotholes knot holes the other envoys would not sustain the american protest and soon the farce of fhe empty room was played to an end and the servants came in with their pipes and tans tea and cake and candles as usual stood about commented on and fairly took part in the diplomatic conversations as before every servant in a foreign establishment in peking is a spy and informer of some degree espionage is a regular business and the table talk visiting list dinner list card tray and scrap basket with full accounts of all comings and goings sayings and doings of any envoy ot foreigner in peking are regularly offered for purchase by recognized purveyors of such news diplomatic secrets are fairly impossible in such an atmosphere every ancret convention and concession is soon blazoned abroad every word the british minister uttered at the tsung 11 yamen was reported to the russian legation with almost electric promptness until the envoy threatened to suspend negotiations and withdraw wily concessionaires know each night where their rivals are dining and what they have said whether any piece of written paper has passed and what has gone on at legation in peking and each consulate at tien tsan every legation keyhole crack and chink has its eye and car at critical times and by a multiplication of imagination agi nation one arrives at an idea of what the palace may be like |