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VOL. VIII. ‘ No.184o
TEBDICT MADE UP '!
SPAIN CAN TRIFLE WITH
THE UNITED STATES
N0 LONGE
ALL NEGOTIATIONS ENDED I
SHE MUST FREE GUBII
0R com WAR WITH
THIS COUNTRY.
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Equwocn.
PRESIDENT FIRM AND Dormant.
Today the President speaks the final
words that will make for peace or war.
His message to Congress will be a
ringing, vigorous document that prom- I
ises to meet the full expectation of
Congress and the country. It will be
a scathing arraignment of Spain, show-
ing that she has demonstrated her utter
incapacity to govern; that her colonies
have declined in population as the re-
sult of misrule and oppression; that
American commerce has been damaged
and American lives and property im—
periled, and that existing conditions
should not and will not be tolerated by
this government.
The destruction of the battle-ship
Maine and the slaughter of 266 officers
and seamen serving, under the United
States flag will be commented upon in
strong language, and Spain will be
held responsible for that disaster. The
President will make no direct recom-
mendation, but his message will point
clearly to the necessity of armed inter-
vention to restore order and peace.
He will not recommend the recognition
of the independence of the island, for
the insurgents have no established
form of government, and the President
and Cabinet believe that a travesty
would be presented to the world if,
following the recognition of indepen-
dence, the United States should, as
the result of war, take that independ-
ence away by seizing or annexing the
island.
The President’s message will be'
equivalent to a declaration of war, and
hostilities can now only be averted by
Spain yielding all.
At this hour the scale seems to have
changed from peaceful to warlike in-
dications. The forecast of the forth'
coming message made in our special
Washington correspondence this morn-
ing 'is decidedly warlike. The Pres-
ident, it is intimated, will report fully
upon the negotiations which he has
conducted for the abatement of the
horrors of the Cuban war, and for the
redress of the unquestionable griev-
ances of the United States in that un-
happy island. He will also reportthat,
because of the obstinacy of the Span-
ish Government, those negotiation have
practically failed. ,
There is, then, only one course left:
Open to this Nation compatible with its
inner and with its obligations to hu-y
unity as a civilized Power. _That
co true is intervention. The President,
1.11, it is said, be authorized by
' averted.
requring the withdrawal of her troops
and administration from the island
which she has so grossly misgoverned,
in which she has so abused the rights
and the patience of the American
people, and which she has so signally
failed to reduce to order.
accedes to this demand
If Spain
will be
If she refuses, as it is feared
she will, the President will be author-
ized to employ the military and naval
forces of the United States to enforce
her compliance.
war
That will mean war.
This crisis will be met by the Ameri-
can people with serenity and confidence.
They have not sought it, but they do
not fear it and they will not shrink
from it. They have been patient while
the aspirations of a neighboring people
for freedom have been cruelly crushed
and thousands of helpless non-com-
batants have been done to death with,
every refinement of savage horror
They have restrained their just wrath
while one of their ships on a friendly
errand was destroyed through treach-
ery and hundreds of her crew sent to
untimely graves. These things cry
aloud for redress, for such redress as
nothing can give but a radical right-
ing of the wrongs of which they are the
outcome.
Such redress the Government of the
United State: is now determined to
obtain, without further delay. The
time for patient waiting has been well
employed. It is now past. The hour
for action is come. And as the wait-
ing was patient, the action will be de-
cisive. The whole Cuban question
must be settled now,'once and for all
W; time, and it can thus be settled only by
settling it right. That the President
has decided to do, and in that decision
he will have the united support of the
American people and, it is confidently
believed, the approval of the civilized
world.
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Washington, Apnil 6.—-’Ph.e Presi-
dent's message will go to Congress to-
day, but (there wil be no action by
that body immediately. The message
wil be read and referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations in the"
Senate and that on Foreign Affairs in'
the House. There may be some at-
tempt at discussion in the House, but
tt will not be prolonged, and it is
doubtful if it will be allowed at all.
In the. Senate, the message will be re-
ferred at once, and dxt (is the intention
of the Committee on Foreign Relations
to report back a resolution to—mornow.
This plan was adopted at the meeting
of the Sen-ate Foreign Relations Com-
mitte yesterday, and will be carried
out. “I ......
For Intervention.
At the meeting of the committee
Senator Frye told the, members that
Itlhe policy of the President'- message
was for finite-mention. is. Quinn, bu}. not
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foi' rthe recognition of the independence
of the Cubans. The President does
not .think alt the pnesent time there
is a. Cuban government to recognize,
but he does believe that the condition
of the island is such as to warrant
intervention. He is convinced that the
“Spanish Government on the island has
fail-ed and that Spain should be com—
pelled to relinquish a claim of sov-
ereignlty, which merely cloaks a con-
dition of barbarisnn. It was stated be-
fore the committee «that rthe President
holds that peace must be restored at
once and that a formal government
as yet to be established, and that its
establishment must follow, as it has
not preceded the withdrawal of the
Spanish from the island.
Furthermore, Sen-actor Frye told the
committee that the President would,
in firm and vigorous terms, review the
explosion of the Maine, and the testi-
mony which has lately been laid before
this administration pointing toward a.
connection of the Spanish with the
disaster.
For the Foraker Resolution.
In View of this statement, the For-
eign Relations Committee decided to
await the reading of the message to
Congress and its reference 'to the com-
mittee before the resolution adopted
last Saturday shall be reported to the
Senate. There was an informal poll
taken of the commit-tee as to its
course, and the maoriiy were still in
favor of reporting to-morrow the For-
eign resolution for armed intervention
and independence. ‘
The only difference of opinion be-
tween the President and [Congress is
whether or not any other government
has been established to take the place
of the Spanish Government. This dif—
ference of opinion is not as serious
as it appears on ‘the surflace, since
both the executive and legislative
have in view the same end—Ithe estab—
lishment of a Cub-am republic on a
sound and permanent basis.
His principle reason for not desiring
to do this is said to be his wish to
be perfectly consistent and to main-
tain logical order in the policy of the
administration. He has heretorfm'e de-
clined to recognize the indepence of
Cuba on the ground that the Cuban
insurgents have not yet established
an independent civil government.
The Cubans have not recently done
anything to demonstrate more clearly
than heretofore the establishment of
their government. The events which
have led to the pro-position of armed
intervention or war have not been
developments of strength on the part
of the insurgents, but uncontrowertible
evidence of weakness, incapacity, bar-
ban'ixty and treachery on the part of
Spain. ‘
Therefore, from the Presdent’s poim‘,
of view, if the Cuban republic was not
entitled to necognition prior to rune de-
struction of the Maine She is not now
entitled to it, and will not be unii-l her
government has been established.
The Course Unchanged.
This View of the situation does not
detract from the justice of the course
of this Government in insisting that
Salim shall relinquish her claim to
sovereignty over am island which it
has been demonstrated she cannot
control and maintain the forms of civ-
ilized government. In other words, the
barbarity and inhumanity of Spain in
(Tuba, and the destruction of ribs Maine
furnish grounds for this Government
to intervene to free Cuvba. from Span-
ish misrule, and to go to war to drive
the Spaniards from Ithe island, if they
do not themselves retire; but do not
change the status of the so-called
Cuban republic.
The President has now decided,
however, to make the destruction of
the Maine and other barbaii'tijes Of the
Spanish in Cuba the ground of inter-
vention. His message goes fully into
the history of Spanish mimic, uneiv—
ilized warfare, starvation of cleconcen-
trades, inability to establish peace on
the island, and, as a. culmination, the
destruction of the Maine, which was
either the wanton act of Spanish offi-
cials who Were the physical represen-
tatives of the Spanish dynasty in
Cuba, or was the act of miscreants,
which could not have been prepetrat-
ed if there were an efficient govern-
ment power even in 'the city of Ha-
vana. alone, which is the centre of
whatever autho‘rdlty Spain still claims
to exercise over the island.
Intervention on these grounds is
sustained by the representations which
have heretofore been made to Spain
by this Government. and is not de-
pendent upon the existence of any
other civil government on the island.
It does not include any discussion or!
whether or not tire Cuban insurgents
have established an independent form
of government, and it would be just
as strong if hereaflher it should be dis-
covered nhaxt such republican govemn-
memt does colt exist.
Wamhintgon, April 6.——The flying
squadron, under command of Commo—
dore Schley, will move on the Cen-
turies within twenty—flour or forty-eight
hours. This is the programme of the
Navy Department. It is both a. reply
to the dispatch of the torpedo flotilla
and fleet 01f cruisers toward our shores
and preliminary to a decisive blow
at the sea. power Otf Spain. ~ -
This is the first positive war order
issued. Monday Commodore Schley,
on the flagship Brooklyn. dropped
down the Roads to a. point opposite
Fort Mon-roe, in obedience to dis-
patches from the department, and
there awaited the receipt pf emer-
gency orders. These were sent yes-
terday, and th commander of the fly-
ing squadron now knows that he is to
make the first move and wili be ex-
pected to strike the first blow of the
war with Spain. He has announced
that he is ready to move at a 'm
ment’s notice. '
It is probable that me squndmwill
sail within twenty-flour er forty-eight
hours directly for the Canary Islands.
crossing and blocking in its course the
path of the torpedo flotilla and d W
Snail-I‘ll. W fleet-
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N ORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1898.
’The plan of operation, so far as now
determined, is as follows: The flying
squadron will not await the acutai
declaration of war, nor the recogni-
tion by Cnogress that a state of war
had existed since the blowing up of
the Maine, nor even the adoption by
the two houses of a resolution author-
izing the forcible intervention of this
country in the affairs of Cuba.
The department and the Cabinet
recognize that war is now a quastian
of hours. It may come this afternoon:
it may be deferred until tO-morrow
morning; it may even be deferred un—
til Friday; but no one in the Navy De-
partment expects that it will be m'
can be postponed beyond that.
The department and the Administra—
tion are now so conf'lent that it must
come within that time that they are
preparing to strike the first blow and
make it decisive.
A part of the plan consists in the
co-operation at once of the fleet under
Capt. Sampson with the Flying
Squadron, and as soon as the latter
starts for the Canaries. Capt. Sampson
will sail for Havana, seal up that har-
bor with a few was-.2, and pass :-n
to meet the two Spanish squadrons.
It is feared that this part of Hm mm—
gramme may miscarry, as it is thought
that the Spaniards will put back in
their coasts as soon as they learn of
the sailing of the Flying Squadron.
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THE PRESIDENT DECLINES.
Refuses the Pope’s Offer to Mediate, and
says Cuba Must Be Free.
Rome, April 6.—’Dhe Pope received
yesterday a telegram from President
McKinley, which, while declining the
offer of his Holiness to medialte be-
‘tween (the United States and Spain,
also contained what was virtually a
declaration of, the President’s policy.
Mr. McKinley said that {he was ex-
tremely sensible of the initiative taken
by the Pontiff, but that it was im-
possible for him to overcome the prej-
udice, even though unjust, which was
entertained by a majority of the
American people against the Vatican’s
intervention in political affairs.
The dispatch added that President
MhKin'ley was opposed to war now as
he had been in the past, and would
still do all Ithlalt was possible to avoid
recourse to such a lamentable expe-
dient, which was considered by him
as unworthy of a. civilized counrtry;
but he could not go against the senti-
ment of the nation,.w.hich demands
the independence of Cuba and a ces—
sation of rthe horrors which have been
going on for three years in that un- .
happy island.
: Ill: is learned that the Message was
tbi‘egraphed to. his Holiness through
Archbishop Ireland.
The Pope’s Terms.
Rome, April 6.——I't is authoritatively
said that the Pope’s proposed terms
are such as can be accepted by Spain
and supported by the United States
Minister Wood-ford, in forwarding
them to President McKinley. The
Pop-3’s initiative is 'baSed wholly
on [the fact that Spain, when she
asked for the good offices of the pew-
ers, also asked for the Pope’s good
offices. The interposition of the Pen-
tiff has thus fiar been confined to ef—
forts to bring about an armistice be—
tween Spain and the insurgents.
The Vatican authorities last even—
ing absolutely refused to furnish any
information relative to the rlis atch
which President McKinley is said to
lave sent to the Pope on the subject
of mediation on the Cuban situation.
The Clerical organ, the Observatire
Romano, is equally silent.
TO BRING LEE HOME.
Government Vessels on Which All Amer-
ican Officials and Others May
Leave Havana.
Washington, April 6.—Members of
the House have been informed that
Vessels have been dispatched to Ha-
vana. to take off Gen. Lee and our
consular officers, as well as all Amer-
icans who desire to leave the island.
The State Department has received
a dispatch from Consul-General Lee
saying «that in case war is declared
the will not be able to get the Amer-
ican citizens out of Cuba before next
Sunday.
A Republican member of the For-
eign Affairs Committee says that the
delay asked for by Gen. Lee to get
the Americans of: (the island will not
entail é delay in the transmission of
the President’s message to Congress.
_ .
To Facilitate Their Departure.
Washington, April 6.—-In response to
representations received from Gen.
Lee, the Treasury Department has
telegraphed Dr. Brunner, the quaran-
tine officer at Havana, directing him
to permit all Americans who desire to
do so to leave Havana without certifi~
cafes or examination.
0n the arrival of the vessel at the
Florida. coast with Americans from
Cuba. an examination will be made
and the vessel will be held until it is
determined It'hat there is no disease on
board.
War Scare ilInkes Beef Deal-er.
Chicago, Aprilr6.——-0Wing “to 'the de—
mands of the Government for firesh
beef the price has gone up $1 a. hun-
dred pounds. Calttl-e are not coming
in fast aim the retail price of beef is
likely to be advanced from one to five
cents a. pound.
Alger Indorscs Volunteer Reserve.
“'ashington, April 6.—Sec-reta.ry Al-
ger yesterday received the bill pro-
viding for the organization of the Vol-
unteer Reserve to the land and naval
forces of the United States. He in-
dorsed it as follows: "I very gladly
lndorse this bill, and believe it will ap-
peal to the patriotism of all American
citizens.”
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