The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1898, Page 1

I[VOLUME LXXXIII—NO SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1898—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DRAWN NEARER THE POINT WHERE WAR WILL COME VIEW OF THE HARBOR OF SAN JUAN, PORTO RICO. For this portthe Spanish torpedo fleet, now en route from the Canaries, is now heading. The view is from the land side and shows a Spanish warship of the Viscaya type in the foreground, with the Morro and lighthouse at the entrance of the harbor on the ieft. San Juan standson anisland which runs out from the main land toward the northeast, inclosing a body of water some ¥ twelve miles long by eight wide, with fine anchorage for large vessels along the town front. The old part of the town is surrounded by a wall, with several forts, built in 1630-71, on which are still mounted many of the old cannon used to repel the English and Dutch buccaneers and plrates.‘ THE PRESIDENT TALKS FREELY OF HIS PLANS WITH REGARD TO CUBA or Wednesday Call Office, Riggs House. Washington, March 26. President McKinley' talked - freely with his Congressional visitors to-day, both in regard to his plans for the fu- ture and his appreciation of the situation with reference to Cuba. His pro- gramme as thus outlined is as follows: To send the report of the court of inquiry to Congress on Mon- day without recommendation and with- out explanation on his part further than to say that he has acquainted Spain with the findings of the court. To follow this Tuesday or Wednes- day with a message dealing with the | condition of the non-combatants in Cuba and asking for an appropriation of $500,000 for their immediate relief. To present anew this condition to Spain, asking that country to make pro- vision for the care of her own help- less people and to come to some terms with the Cubans which will be satisfac- tory to them and put an end to the war. This failing, to forcibly intervene on | humanitarian grounds. The President indicated to his callers an abiding faith that peace may b.c pre- served and a determination on his part to accomplish that end if it may be done with honor to our own country and without disregarding the demands of humanity. He frankly and re- peatedly avowed to-day his desire to prevent a conflict, while at the same time indicating a firm purpose to secure telief for the starving reconcentrados. Indeed, the latter purpose appeared to be the topic uppermost in the Presi- dent’s mind. He dwelt upon the fact that the recognition of belligerent rights or of independence would not be | of any material service to these unfor- tunates. He admitted that such action might be of assistance to the men at arms, the insurgent army, but they, he said, have shown a capacity to take care of themselves and do not stand in pressing need of our kind offices. Maine | NN n nuNNNNLLNNN UPHOLDS SPAIN. %% -3 ¢ EUROPE PARIS, March 26.—Debats, dis- cussing Cuba and the New York Herald's editorial claiming that America would have the moral support of Europe, says the Her- ald is mistaken. “The United States,” it says, “will not have the moral support nor the sympathies of Europe, or at least that part which takes account of the necessity of re- specting certain international principles. It is not permissible for any nation, on the pretext that disorder prevails in part of a mneighbor’s territory, to inter- vene there by force in order to establish an order of things which best corresponds to its own aspirations. Legitimate sovereignty has its rights, and they must be respected.” |23 3283808t as s ananennassIMA;M A AN N = <) % [ BnLIRINLRLRNAILLLNLN | The President believes Spain will in- | terpose no obstacle to our sending suc- cor to her indigent people, and he will | ask Congress to act promptly, that the | aid to be given may not arrive too late | to relieve the pressing necessities. This | done, the President is hopeful that Con- | gress will remain quiet while the ex- | ecutive branch of the Government con- tinues its efforts to secure a peaceful | settlement of the difficulty. He thinks | it not too late to do this, and he made the assertion to-day that Spain was will- | ing to meet the United States half way | in adjusting the entanglement without coming to blows. He referred only casually to the sail- ing of Spain’s torpedo fleet, leaving the impression on the minds of his visitors that he considered that so far in this matter Spain is acting within the bounds of her own rights und just com-laint cannot yet be made by this country in regard to this course. i e did not enter into details regard- Dealing With Cuba. | | | got the impression that if comes and it shall be absolutely deter- i mined that no other course will avail, the President will be found ready for armed intervention. On the score of politics he assures them that he would rat.ier see the Re- publican party fail | than to wage an unjust war* but that if | war must come. it must be war | humanity, and that this fact Will Send the Maine Report to Congress on Mon- day, Following It With a Message on Tuesday | the of must worst future success for be made so evident that he will have the en-, tire nation behind him in a conflict at arms. Minister Woodford has been cabled to notify the Spanish Government as to the results found by the American court, | particularly that the explosion was ex- ing the propositions he may make or £ Continued on Second Page. ent telegraphs: bewildering conjecture. alarmists, war or peace, according liam McKinley that war will be Cuba will be secured without 2 gun There is a deep feeling at the seats of both governments. The feeling here is intensifying every hour. Not a ray of peace light has come from the sky. The day opened with gloomy forebodings of hostilities hanging over everybody. It hung over the crowds in the hotel corfl-‘ | dors. It hung over the State, War and Navy buildings. It hung around | the White House like a Potomac fog. The Herald’s special cable fro'm\ | Madrid had portrayed a change in the situation there. Dispatches from Minister Woodford to the State ]?e~ partment had brought even more sin- } ister news from Spain than any that had been received yet. The utmost caution was taken to guard the con- tents of the cables sent by the Mm-‘ jster to Spain, but it began to be| whispered abroad that the news was | of a character to cause the most in- tense anxiety. The cable, it is un-| derstood, dealt with Spain’s refusal to further continue her consent to the sending of relief from the United States to the reconcentrados. [ Well might such a decision on the | part of the Spanish Government cause apprehension and unrest at 'fbe | peace headquarters in the White House. Spain’s refusal could mean only one thing—our insistence that relief should continue to go, and at the point of the bayonet, if need be. | may have made to Spain, for undoubt- edly some are pending, but he leit the impression that he would be satisfied with no settlement that would not give the Cubans a very liberal form of gov- ernment. He admitted frankly that autonomy had proved a failure, and ex- pressed the opinion that 1t would be as difficult to satisfy the Aaericans with any settlement that might be made as it would be to satisfy the Cubans them- selves. He reasserted the possibility of securing an agreement on the part of Spain to allow Cuba to conduct her own affairs with absolute freedom, ex- cept that tne island should be required to pay the mother country a specified sum in the way of tribute every year out of her revenues, seeming to think that this would form a basis upon which | both Spain and the Cubans could agree | without sacrifice of too much pride on cither side. Mr. McKinley reverted often in his | conversations to his desire to maintain peace, and dwelt upon the fact that war meant not only loss of life and property, but that it also would injure our com- merce, disturb business conditions gen- erally, increase our public debt, add to our pension roll and result in many ways to our disadvantage and distress. He made it clear, also, that whatever course he might pursue in the future he would not at present demand any indemnity at the hands of Spain for the loss of the Maine, preferring to leave that matter to the adjustment of a more quiet period. The President also spoke of possible complications witn other na- tions, but did not manifest any uneasi- ness on this score. Senators who have visited the Presi- dent have without exception, so far as can be learned, assured him that the Senate appreciates his efforts to pre- serve peace under proper conditions, and have told him there is no danger of precipitate action in that body. They Fo0000 000 | @0000000@@@@@OOOO00@0@@9@@0@@@@@@@@9;@@ PPPPPPP00P9999O0 POP0PO0OP000000000 NEWS OF THE DAY. ‘Weather. forecast ‘for San Fran- cisco: Fair on Sunday; light north- erly changing to fresh westerly winds. Maximum temperaturs for the past twenty-four hous FIRST PAGE. One Day Closer to War. The President Talks Freely, SECOND PAGE. Work on Sunday at Mare Island. War Talk in the House. To Garrison Fort Point. Painting Warships Dead Color. The Two Atlantic Squadrons, THIRD PAGE. Poll of Congress on War. Million Wanted for Cuban Relief. Buropean Opinion of the Situation. France Would Have Peace. Gall's Claim to an Estate. FOURTH PAGE. A Noted Dukeé Dead. Sealers Lost in the Ice. San Rafael Rose Carnival. Both Want Nevills' Gold. Tennis at the Citrus Colony. Oxford Wins From Cambridge. FIFTH PAGE. Clancy's Letter From Dublin. SIXTH PAGE. Fditorial. Redress or War. The Semi-Centennial. The Klondike Mail Service. Mr. Rea’s Demur. The Cattle Quarantine. Otficial Privileges Abused. “With Entire Frankness,” by Henry James. SEVENTH PAGE. Judge Slack Resigns. After an Island of Gold. More Science in Education. A Salvationist Who Wouldn't Swear. EIGHTH PAGE. The 014 Coloma Is Safe. Gang Rule Costly to San Jose. Heavy Frosts Follow Rain. Miners Drowned at Dutch Harbor. San Bernardino Fears Sheepmen. NINTH PAGE. Harry Gillig as a Minstrel. Private Contract System. - P000P0OO000000000 * LS P00 0PPPIPIPPIPPIPIVIOPIPIDIVPIVVPPIIOOEOOPPOOPDOIPPPIIPOPCOPOGOO 0090200009000 00000090000000000606666660 L2 X 2 4 PP0006006066000 NEWS OF THE DAY. TENTH PAGE. Bageball Season Opening. Coursing at_Two Parks. ELEVENTH PAGE. The Masonic Festival. Tried to Blackmail Rudinoff. A New Bantam Weight. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside. Births, Marriages and. Deaths. FIFTEENTH PAGE. The Day Among the Churches. News From Across the Bay. SIXTEENTH PAGE. Ferry Scandal Developments. Thought He Was Robbed. Deaf, Dumb and Blind Accounts. SEVENTEENTH PAGE. PPPPPPPPPPIPIOPIPOD O 2» Golng to the New Turquoise Mines. @ EIGHTEENTH PAGE. & Tomb of Isis Discovered in Egypt. & NINETEENTH PAGE. & “Off to Sea” Signal on the Oregon. TWENTIETH PAGE. Latest Pathological Discovery. ‘Where Is Grace Stevenson? TWENTY-FIRST PAGE. Story of the ‘‘Alabama,” by One of the Crew. Modjeska Tells How to Act TWENTY-SECOND PAGE. Story of a Lost Millionaire. Missionary Made a Mandarin. Balloon Made of Metal. TWENTY-THIRD PAGE. The Rise of a Political Boss. TWENTY-FOURTH PAGE. Arthur Matthews’ Exhibition. Books TWENTY-FIFTH PAGE. The New Lightship and Its Crew. TWENTY-SIXTH PAGE. Society. TWENTY-SEVENTH PAGE. Fashions. TWENTY-EIGHTH PAGE. Schools. Fraternal News. Whist. TWENTY-NINTH PAGE. Theaters. THIRTIETH PAGE. The Commercial World. THIRTY-FIRST PAGE. Boys' and Girls' Page. THIRTY-SECOND PAGE. News Along the Water Front. Monument for Lieutenant Burke. Mines. PP00000000000000 9 0606090000906 0060000660300000006000000006600900000006000000060060 6@ * B * * P * ® * * * * * * * % * * M * PRESIDENT STILL LABORS TO KEEP THE PEACE WITH SPAIN Even His Own Close Friends Admit That There Will Be War Within the Next Fifteen Days. to the President’s close friends, in| the course of fifteen days. For in these trying times the faith of Wil- } averted and the independence of being fired has never wavered. President McKinley has made many concessions in the interest of peace, but this is one thing on which he has a well defined policy, backed | by the almost osverwhelming opinion | of Congress. On that he could not back down, and Spain insisting on | maintaining the attitude outlined from Madrid could only lead to one | ° thing, and that thing—war. This was all the talk late in'the afternoon, and there was an infor- | mal meeting of the Cabinet at the ‘White House, followed by a long conference between the President, Assistant Secretary of State DPay and Secretary of the Navy Long. . The attitude of Congress has filled | HRE KKK KK R E KK KR THE SPANISH TORP near this country. The Board of S time and the utmost caution was against the menace of the threaten! Dons. American fleet to meet the Spanish ® % * % % * ® * * * * * * * * * * * * % partment will not even trust these the minds of the members of the ad-| ministration with renewed appre- hension. The Herald’s poll shows that Congress is strongly in favor of acting on the Cuban question. Out of seventy-eight Senators inter- viewed, thirty-nine are willing to wait on the President’s policy and follow it; twenty-six are in favor of forcible intervention, and seven are in favor of recognizing the independ- ence of Cuba. Out- of 200 members of the House polled, 100 will wait for the President to speak, eighty-eight favor forcible intervention, seventy- eight want to see the independence of Cuba, six favor the recognition of belligerency, and fifteen are for peaceful intervention. It is interest- ing to note that only one Senator and two Representatives favor the an- nexation of Cuba, so that the charge that the United States is grabbing for territory is not likely fo be made. Notwithstanding the compliment to the administration that this poll shows, the President is contemplat- BOSTON. Mass., March 26.—A Washirfgton special says: were issued to-day to prevent the Spanish torpedo flotilla coming too yet it was learned from unquestionable authority States Government had made up its mind to take a determined stand It is not the intention of the department compel them to return or sink them, as the jineoes would have it do, but to adopt the more pacific course of permitting the Spaniards to reach Porto Rico, but drawing the dead line there. To this effect orders were issued to Schley to-day. These orders will be transmitted to Sampson by messenger instead of by any of the conversational methods of Government the practically perfect safeguard of the official cipher code, so im- When this is done, and the frowning :* portant is it that the details should niot be known. : o The members of the Bo~rd of Strategy, of course, refuse to di- * vulge any of the details of the conference, but it was learned in the ’f * highest authority that it had been decided to place a very formida- * % ple obstruction in the way of the Snanish flotilla’s passage a single * % mile this side of Porto Rico. * % guns of American battleships guard the route to * % United States Government will officially notify Spain that it will not * % permit the flotilla to proceed a single mile nearer Havana or the * % TUnited States: that it has no objections to the presence of the flo- * % tilla at Porto Rico or elsewhere, provided it does not cross the line; # % and, finally, that should this ultimatum be disregarded it will be # % jooked upon by the United States as a declaration of war and will : : Dbe acted upon accordingly. EETEEE R R R R B R R B -E N B R X S ERE TR ETE R R R R R It Has Been Resolved to Stop the Spanish Torpedo Flotilla at Porto Rico, but in the Meantime There Are Grave Fears of Attack Upon the Oregon. NEW YORK, March 26.— The Herald’s Washington correspond-"* It has been a day of distress, anxiety and unceasing, | The only thing that opinien seems to be united on is that we have, in the last twenty-four hours, drawn per- ceptibly nearer the breaking point with Spain. War is on everybody’s lips—war in a few days, according to the an * * * * * * #* e * * * * * * * * » FEAR FOR 3 THE OREGON NEW YORK, March 26.—A Wash- ingtdn special to the Herald says: Fearing an attempt on the part of Spain to destroy the battle-ship Oregon and gunboat Marietta, which Rave been ordered to the North Atlantic coast to re-enforce Captain S. W. Sampson’s com- mand, instructions will pe sent to the commanding officers directing them to adopt every precaution against attack. The determinatior to fssue these instructions Is the result of an official dispatch from the diplo- matic representative of this Gov- ernment in Uruguay, announcing that the torpedo-boat Temerario of the Spanish navy had hurriedly left Montevideo, where she had been anchored for some time, and had gone to sea. Her destination was unknown, but it was believed that she might be under orders to lie in wait for the Oregon and Marictta and to cripple them, if possible, so that they could not West. reach Key * ¥ % e EDO FLEET MUST STOP AT PORTO RICO. Orders trategy was in session for a long used to keen its doings secret, that the United ing approach of the fleet of the to send out an torpedo boats in mid-ocean and transmission. The de- vitals order to the wires under the West, the R R R R R R AR IR I R S R R O O O R U R S R U R R R R R R R R R R R R E R R X R R R R A R I I A I R R IR * % FEERFEEFFEXF R R R E KR FEXFXEFERRERFHERR RS ing a step with reference to the man- ner of sending the report of the Maine Court of Inquiry to Congress which may make congressional senti- ment shift. It is said the Presi- dent does not wish to send full tes- timony to Congress at the time the report goes in. The excuse that will be given is that the testimony being a bulky typewritten volume, should first be sent to the printer. The fact seems to be that this excuse is being found to prevent the testimony go- ing to Congress at this time for fear its tenor will influence Senators and Representatives into declaring war. Much of this testimony will tend to fix the blame on Spain, by implica- tion, whereas it is‘not, strictly speak- ing, testimony that would be admit- ter under the striet rules of evidence. The court was commanded to take all the testimony that would tend to fix responsibility, no matter how in- directly. This was done. Then the court was commanded to use all ef- forts to cover all the points as com~