Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — CONGER TO QUIT PEK N. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONGER TO QUIT PEK N.

Getia Leave of Absence and Rockbill Assumes Charge. A Washington dispatch says: Edwin N. Conger, minister of the United States to China, will return to his native land on

leave of absence. The strong probability is that he will not resume his diplomatic post in I'ekin. liis successor is W. W. Rockbill, director of the bureau of American republics and spe-, oial commissioner to China, who lias acted as Mr. Conger’s adviser throughout the negotiations.

Mr. Conger’s return is said to be in compliance with his own wish. Mr. Conner sent a cablegram to Secretary Hay requesting that lie be granted leave of absence for sixty days, and recommending that Mr. Itockhill continue the important negotiations which he has begun. After consultation with the President, Secretary Hay replied iu the affirmative, and special instructions were subsequently sent to Mr. Rockhiil, directing him to assume the post of representative of the United States, and to observe the instructions under which Mr. Conger has been acting.

E. N. CONGER.