The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1898. STATESMEN CONFER ON THE CRISIS Report of the Maine Court and Cuba Are Under | Consideration. Many Are Begin That Spain Will Accept the Demand of Uncle Sam to End the Island War. Call Office, Riggs House, | ‘Washington, March 27. The President saw a number of the | snembers of the Cabinet at the White | House to-day. They dropped in one by | one until those present included Secre- | taries Bliss, Alger, Gage and Attorney- General Griggs. With them also was Assistant Secretary Day of the State | Department, who presumably had | some dispatches to show the President. The gathering was not a special Cabi- | net meeting in the sense that that | term is generally used, but was simply | a talk between the President and his | advisers concerning matters on which he desired to consult. The Cuban ques- | tion and the report of the Mai of inquiry were the topics d but so far as could be ascertained noth- ing conclusive was determined, one of the members of the Cabinet saying | subsequently that there was nothing new or startling in the situation. The presence of Judge Day would infer that there were advices from Minister Woodford, but further than an acknowledgment that communica- tion is in progress between the State Department and the Minister nothing | the course Congress may pursue. In the meantime the President will, on| Wednesday, send his message asking ning to Believe anything less nor that Americans would be satisfied if we should encour- age a settlement that would not be ac- | ceptable to the Cubans. If there should now be an armistice it would be with the concessions made by Spain at the instance of this country, that negotia- tions should be opened immediately with the insurgents looking to the es. tablishment of a permanent peace upon | these terms. It has long been the hope | of the Administration to bring Spain to the point of making propositions of this character as the basis of a settlement that is satisfactory to all parties, and hoped from Spain’'s attitude that time has arrived. ; The friends of the Administration | feel that the situation is a very delicate | one and that much will depend upon that an appropriation be made for the aid of the destitute Cub: CONGRESS WEARY OF | The Hugh McCullough of the United States Revenue Marine Service. GEN. DUDLEY TALKS WAR | Declares That the Time for Action Has Arrived. This Veteran Knows Only Too Well of the Treachery of Spaniards. Has Never Had a Doubt That the Maine Was Biown Up by En- emies of Uncle Sam. CONTINUED DELAY| Will Take Affairs Into Its Own Hands If the Administration Does Not Act Soon. NEW YORK, March 27.—The ald’s Washington Her- | correspondent tele- Special Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, March 27.—General N. A. M. Dudley, retired, gave the following | statement to The Call correspondent to- | night: | “It is my opinion only one construc- | tion could be put upon the sending of | the fleet of torpedo ships to Havana | | AUXILIARY MEN-OF-WAR Lighthouse Vessels Are Turned Over to the Navy. Board of Officers to Be Chosen to Seiect Their Armament and Protection. At the Same Time the Revenue Cut- ters Will Be Duty as Gunboauis. Prepared ior Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 27.—A Washing- | ton special to the Herald says: Four of the speediest and most desirable ves- selected for conversion into auxiliary men of war. By direction of the Presi- dent the Treasury Department formally turned over the Ameria, Maple and yesterday, and that officlal at once is- sued orders to their commanding offi- FAVORS UNION WITH ENGLAND Views of Professor Wells of Dartmouth Col- lege. Believes There Should Be an Alliance of English-Speak- ing Nations. American Trade Threatened by the Powers of Continsntal Europe. Special Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, March 2T.—Professor D. Collins Wells of Dartmouth College, a well-known authority on international | sels of the lighthouse service have been | law, to-day gave The Call correspond- | ent a statement on the proposed Eng- lish alliance in view of the present Spanish and Chinese troubles. He said: “I believe that inasmuch as the colo- s | Mangrove to the Secretary of the Navy nization of different parts of the world by France, Germany and Russia has gradually shut out the United States much as I deplore the fact, I cannot cers, directing them to proceed imme- | commerce byd -riminatingtariffs infa- the matter in the same light. I hate o e med. vy depart. | EFaPhs: Many members with whom I | harbor—an act of war, which it would | Sne Var and Navy depart | aiceq to-day express themselves as | become the duty Of the United State ments there was little semblance Of| ..y ympatient of further delay in the | Government to resent. The situation | Sab hie bureaus, clerks, | cpunciation of a decisive policy look- | is indeed one of imminent war, and as massengers and telegraph operators | ing to the speedy ending of the war wero at work. Probably never since |in Cuba. s say that if the admin- | doubt from the bellicose attitude of the tize days of the late war have so many istration is disposed to negotiate for | Spanish Government that she has been Cotcialy gathered at the War and |settling the Cuban difficulty diplo- | expecting a conflict and as well as she Navsrach ts on o Sunday. Dis- | matically with Spain much longer Con- | could has prepared herself for it IMANNOE DA 00 = gress will take the matter into its own | ‘No other conclusion could be arrived patches that came over night regard- | pangs and precipitate decisive action. | at from a review of the circumstances ing the mov nts of ships and other | Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, dis- |Of the last three months than that matters we ceived, and, as many | cussing the general situation, said to | Spain was reg war with this of them required a prompt answer by | me to-day: country as inevit. And it is equally t emergency replies “If the President does not transmit | true that the admin tration looks at ke however, did not ap- Department during | ? s most of the matters re- qu e those that | « tended to by bureau | [: and their assistants. Mrs. has been ill for some time, and | Secretary in part shook official ot to Congress to-morrow the entir port of the Maine court of inqui absolute confidence and support which the members of both houses, regardless of party, have accorded him will be very materially lessened. The adminis- tration has stated that it is making every preparation for a war with Spain | growing out of a long chain of events, of which the destruction of the Maine 1 have been in the long time, have been under a ' fire and seen service in est, and have in my of the thought of war. army a hundred day Mexico and the Wi ory a recollection of hundreds ve men dead and dying from the ravages of battle, and I don’t want war. It is a horrible thing but I feel, nevertheless, that the Government has and spent the major portion T Sy with her. In the afternoon, in | may have been the most important. If | Sho7 & "‘;‘”’ fl"‘”‘t{“{) forhpatance: tompany with Mrs. Long, the Secre- | we are on the brink of war, Congress, | A0C. 17¢ AR e fary drove to the navy yard and in- | which is the sole war-making power, | hos 7he whole history of e spected the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, | ought to be put into possession of every | siory ~ of atrocities, of ke T pich is having her guns repaired. The | line of testimony adduced at the ses- SryarOr) BUocloR Lt Luneainle wEsgellias beaniat the yard since ahout fislons of the colrtofdaiiy, treacnerous of all races of the earth. | nd great crowds have been week, & scretary Day spent a por- Sabbath at the State De- there received a call h Minister, a rather o sal ‘procedure, indicating impor- | tion is not temporizing it cannot be re- | aititude the administration has taken tant matters for considerati The | strained from taking decisive action on | quring the whole course of this e etonce lasted some time, but its | its own account. Furthermore, Con- | trouble. The whole disturbance is a nature could not be learned gress will not endure continued diplo- | credit to the country. It is standing T eht Commodore Winfield S, | matic negotiations with Spain regard- | ypon the same ground which it stood Schiey, just appointed to the command | Ing the settlement of the Cuban ques- | quring the Civil War—the cause od ! Bt the “fiying Squadron,” left here for | tion. If we are to continue to parley | gimple Vi se Norfolk. 1t Is said that to-morrow he | with the Madrid Government the ad- Stmiple liumanity pand 10 the fnatign will _hoist flag on the Brooklyn, | ministration will find that the patience Which §s to be the flagship of the fleet. | of Congress NatBtAA R ONET the | o D e e The only other vessel of the squadron | most conserv men will be con- | try : the Ma now at Hampton Road chusetts. Of the remaining three the Texa in New York receiving her ammunition hoists and the Columbia and the Min at League Ii land navy V: , e the final work preparatory to their s be- ing hurriedly don The latter will be at Norfolk about the middle of the week. 1 v in the pro- coun- developments of the da n situation indicate steac s in the negotiations in thi and " Spain. looking to the main- of peact at the present at good authority for say- h is to secure a ¢ sation of hostilities in Cuba rather than to in a war with the United State: d that it is more than proo- | taking matter from the able that negotiation between the Gov- | hands of the President if he tries to ernment of the United States and the | hold back too long. Aside from re- | will take a turn in ture. The present | Spanish Ministry has expressed a pa- cific dispositi from the beginning, and the indications are strong now that | it will avail itself of the good offices of the United St. tes to the fullest ex- tent that public opinion in Spain will allow in bringing to an end the hos-i tilities in Cubi. To what extent the Unted States may | go in assisting Spain in her present de- sign of securin - an armistice is not yet | determined, but the conservative el ment in the administration consider the Sagasta Ministry the immediat “If the testimony goes to the Com- | mittee on Foreign Relations, Congress | will not be satisfied, and which the Pre the dent may have policy formu- gress is assured that the administra- pudiate this waiting and | strained to r and to aci We do not | indecisive poli | want war, but wemust insist that Cuba | shall be immediately freed forever | from Spanish Government and barba- rity. If Spain will not peaceably re- and she must be forced This is the temper of Con- s will shape the pol- linquish the to do s0. Committee tive member of the Hous | | | his connection with 3('(|u1r1 not talk for publication. | gentleman, who has on former occa- that This d any action in regard to 1id -to me: sions oppos Cuban affair “There is & the whole stricted localities, the people country are a unit in favor of aggres- ive action, and the men in the House who expect to stand for re-election, and who are getting letters from their dis- icts, come to me every day and de- | clare they cannot face their constitu- ents if they fail to take early action toward ending the horrible condition of affairs which prevails in Cuba, and which Spain has given ample evidence she has neither the desire nor the power to end. Unless there is some | vital military or naval reason for the | delay, the President should not hesi- | | And it is because I know Spanish character that I believe and have be- lieved from the first that the Maine in Havana harbor was deliberately blown up. I can't express with too much emph-sis my admiration for the diately to Norfolk navy yard. There the vessels will be inspected by a board of officers to be appointed by Commo- dore Farquhar, commandant of the vard, for the purpose of determining the armament and protection that they should recei As these orders were telegraphed, it is expected that the ves- sels are now making preparations to start for Norfolk. The Ameria is in New York® harbor, the Maple is serving in Maryland waters and the Mangrove is now in Havana in attend- ance upon the divers who are working on the remains of the Maine. It is ex- pected that the Ameria will make quite a formidable gunboat when she re- ceives her protection and armament. She has a gross tonnage of 1100, draught of 16 feet and horsepower of 1000, which will drive her at the rate of about 15 knots an hour. It is ex- pected that the Ameria will be given a battery of four or flve inch guns be- sides a number of smaller weapons, and she will be attached to the fleet at Key West for duty as a picket boat. The Maple has a gross tonnage of 400 tons and will be remembered as the vessel used by ex-President Cleveland during his fishing expeditions in the Virginia swamps. The Mangrove will leave Havana probably as soon as pos- sibel for Norfolk, her place being taken by the coast survey steamer which arrived at that port last night from Key West. The board which will be appointed to |determine the armament and protection Bache, | th a very conserva- on Foreign Affairs, who, cn account of | committee, | for whose starving people thousands of | to be given the lighthouse service ves- dollars and shiploads of rations have |sels will perform a similar duty in con- nection with revenue cutters. Some of | try has nothing to fear and will take | the cutters are expected to arrive at part in any c aflict with credit to it- | Norfolk during the present week. The self and honor to the administration.” | Gresham and Calumet are on the lakes — {and they will begin their voyage to | Norfolk through the lakes, the Welland | canal and St. Lawrence as soon as they | can be made ready for the trip. In order | to permit the Gresham to get through Welland canal it will be necessary for | twenty feet of her stern to be removed. | It will also be necessary to remove the | same amount from the Onondaga and WOULD NOT SHIP ON A SPANISH VESSEL Cotton Exporters at Galveston Fear That Their Cargoes Might [ Be Seized. | NEW YORK, March 2 S e . g = n at Cleveland. To pay 1579‘{("'“ “‘d‘h‘;’ *:”a‘d says: Cotton | crpl %) fhis work and to taks the uyers an rokers of this State are | revenue cutters to Norfolk from their becoming alarmed at the situation in | present stations the President has al- 7—An Austin |Al8onquin, which are being rushed to | rave danger of Congress | of the | business brought on by war rumors. They find it impossible to secure in- surance. People will not accept cotton with the present cloud hovering over the country. A Spanish ship now in Galveston, in | attempting to load cotton for Liver- pool, has been refused insurance for | fear of seizure on the high seas. Sev- eral foreign firms have wired to lheir‘ State buyers to ship on British vessels | only, as they are considered the only | safe means of transportation in case of war. There is at least a third of the | Texas cotton crop yet to be moved, and | the present war scare is being seriously | felt in the marketing of the product. Efforts are being made looking to re- | lieving the situaticn, but at present local buyers say the situation is very | ! General | lowed $75,000. 'SAYS INTERVENTION | WOULD BE JUSTIFIED Manderson Believes This Government Should Inter- fere in Cuba. OMAHA, March 27.—General Charles F. Manderson in an interview on the Cuban situation says: “It surely looks more like war than it did two weeks ago. To my mind the action of Spain in sendinga formid- able flotilla 'of torpedo boats to Cuba forms an incident that is more war- Eritical like than any of the features of the manifestation of this desire on their | 3¢/a¥, 00 TR TR SR0 ke ac- | part for even a temporary peace a di- 3 ke result of President McKinley's ‘i tion at once to terminate Spanish mis- g BATTLE PAINT FOR diplomacy and they are naturall posed to contend that the P should be left free for the present at | Jeast to pursue a policy which promises much in the way of preventing war be- | tween this country and Spain and alsoi of bringing to a close the hostilities in | Cuba. Hence there will be an effort | on the part of the peacefully inclined in ess to continue to hold that body | in check and to prevent inflammatory | there until this promising lead may be exploited. On | of the administration it is | at the development of the situ- ot require a great length of that there will be no ex- | | | s been fully determined sident. It is to bring the end should come as the negotiations than companied by hos- strations on the part of the | Ience the disposition of | to give Spain a fair op- | secure an armistice with | ul vhich to come to an un- | th the Cubans. €1 upon high authority been no abatement of itention to see that Cubans pract not believed tha lly a free people. d to allow her a reason- | sume at once o account of a big order ninated and that it is | Tespo: closed upon terms that will render the |says It is | ment it they would accept | war vessel to Spain. rule in Cuba.” GARIBALDI IS READY TO FIGHT FOR CUBA. Would Send an Army of Forty Thou- sand Men if Their Expenses Were Paid. BERLIN, March 27.—The Rome cor- respondent of the Berliner Tageblatt telegraphs: “The Marquis Visconti Venosta, the Italian Foreign Minister, says the Cu- ban situation has grown worse, but that outside of Austria, which morally supports Spain for dynastic reasons, no European power is inclined to show practical sympathy for Spain. Ricotti Garibaldi that if the United J I | r 2 5 A says i L A o eruention It | States will defray their expenses he| e “::;ll(l::lx:agage to send 40,000 Garibaldinns | S Powder Mills to Reopen. KELLOGG, W. Va., March 27.—It is stated on trustworthy authority that the Phoenix Powder Mills here, which have been idle for four years, will re- | from the United States Government. - Spain After a Warchip. BERLIN, March 27.— The Vienna cor- ndent of the Frankfort Zeitung the Austro-Hungarian Govern- is negotiating for the sale of a | Tortugas, where she will coal. THE BATTLESHIPS To-Day the Work of Daubing the Vessels of the North Atlantic Squadron Will Be Resumed. KEY WEST, Fla., March 27.—The ex- citement among naval officers and resi- dents abated somewhat to-day, but everywhere groups could be seen dis- cussing the probability of war with Spain. The work of painting the bat- tleships, unexpectedly stopped yester- 11 be resumed to-morrow. They will be painted a dull lead color in- stead of black. It is learned that Captain Wick of the New York sailed last night on the Bache for Havana. His mission there is said to confer with Lieutenant-Com- mander Wainwright, and to decide whether further wrecking work on the Maine will be of any use. The Towa left late last night for Dry She is expected shortly. The harbor presents a warlike appearance. The Marblehead, Montgomery, Detroit. Nashville, Cin- cinnati, Castine, Wilmington and six torpedo boats lie close in shore, while the Indiana and New York loom six miles out. The Montgomery is expect- ed to go north shortly. Eight bodies from the Maine were laid to rest in the city cemetery this | morning with the same simple cere- monies that have attended the inter- meut of other bodies buried here. Maine disaster or of the complications growing out of the oppression and | starvation of the Cubans. “The question of indemnity to this | Government for the loss of the Maine | might be settled by a Court of Nations | or any other form of arbitration. On the other hand it seems to me that this Government would certainly be war- ranted in taking steps toward inter- vention in the Spanish-C.ban difficul- ties. The terrible outrages committed by the Spaniards among Cubans can no longer be endured. The reports are from trustworthy sources and indicate that intervention on the grounds of humanity would be entirely justified.” g WOULD NOT RAISE LIFE INSURANCE RATES One Company to Abrogate the Clause Against Holders Going to War. ST. LOUIS, March 27.—John A. Me- Call, president of the New York Life Insurance Ccmpany, in an interview as | would be increased by war, said: “We will not only maintain our present rates, even on the policies of holders who are likely to go to the front, but . | we will make null and void all restric- | tions hitherto in force. | of our oldest policies contain clauses preventing the holder from going to | war. That clause has been annulled. | We have sent out policies free from re- | striction.” to the probability that insurance rates | A large number | vor of the mother country, an extension of such a policy is ultimately going to prove disastrous to the United States. Both England and the United States are virtually shut out from trade with French, German or Russian colonies. Is it not time that these two great Eng- lish-speaking nations should combine for mutual protection from future en- croachment upon their commerce by nations of rope and for benefits of mutually increased commercial advan- tage The present Cuban crisis has revealed a fundamental sympathy be: tween all glish-speaking people. Un- der certain circumstances there is growing up in the creat American re- public a dangerous antagonist for a | Great Britain and a valuable ally for | the European continent, whose policy should be to treat her with the greatest consideration. “It is time we realized that there is practically a continental alliance with the end in view to divide up England’s provinces. This anti-English or anti- liberal feeling seems the ruling passion in the breast of Kaiser William. He would not lose sight of German bond- holders and traders in these events. “Now all this concerns us. If they are | allowed to partition China we must re- | tire from that market. In the present crisis continental nations give at least moral support to Spain. “I know of no valid reason why Eng- | 1and and the United States, having re- ciprocal interests and common lan- guage, traditions and institutions, should not have for one another such natural sympathy as to forever pre- | vent hostilities between them. There would be vast strength in such an al- liance.” WRECKING OPERATIONS | MAY BE SUSPENDED. | Sub - Committee of Investigation ‘Will Decide the Question To-Day. Copyrighted, 1308, by James Gordon Bennett. | HAVANA, March 27.—As a result of | the arrival to-day of Captain Chad- | wick of the flagship New York to con- voke a sub-committee of investigation, consisting of himself, Captain Cowles of the Fern and Lieutenant-Comman- der Wainwright of the Maine, the work of dismantling the wreck of the Maine may be abandoned. It is for | this committee to decide whether that work shall continue at this time and under the present circumstances. An informal meeting was held this morn- ing, at which an inventory of the movable furniture still aboard the | Maine was gone over and an estimate made of the time that would be re- quired to remove it. To-morrow the matter will be gone over in a much more thorough manner, and a decision may be arrived at to-morrow night, though it is quite likely that the Bache will not take Captain Chadwick back to Key West before Tuesday. It is said to be quite likely that wrecking operations will be dropped upon order of this committee. The Mangrove has taken on the six-inch guns and explosive materials already brought up from the Maine and will sail for Key West as soon as Captain Chadwick makes known the decision of the committee. SPAIN STRENGTHENING PHILIPPINE DEFENSES. Guarding Against the Possibility of a Sudden Attack by Sea. MANILA, Philippine Islands, March 25.—The defenses and forts have been strengthened with a view to guarding against a possible sudden sea attack. The gendarmerie recently seized eighty armed Separatists in a house, where they were preparing a coup de main. The Separatists offered a vio- lent resistence, but the gendarmarie shot ten, wounded three and took the rest prisoners. Three gendarmes were wounded. Order was finally estab- lished. i Veterans Would Fight Again. WASHINGTON, March 27.—General | Daniel Butterfield has advised the Sec- retary of War that his old regiment, the Twelfth New York, has through its commander, Colonel Leonard, by letter to the Governor of New York, tendered | Is Saved by DETERMINE TO ABANDON THE MAINBG The Naval Officers Realize That the Battle=-Ship Is Lost. After All the Property Possible Wreckers the Hull Will Be Destroyed as an Obstruction. NEW YORK, March 27.—A Wash- ington special to the Herald says: In view of the refusal of the Spanish Gov- ernment to permit the use of dynamite in wrecking work on the Maine con- siderable difficulty is anticipated by the authorities in raising the turreted guns of the battle-ship. There has never been any intention on the part of this Government to al- low the use of explosives in such large quantities as to destroy the evidences of an external explosion, which have been reported by the Court of Inquiry. Appreciating that the Spanish courts will seek to have the matter referred to international arbitration it is desired by the officials to leave the Maine in the same condition as when she went down. The authorities say, therefore, that it is as much to the interest of this Government as to Spain not to permit the use of dynamite in sufficient quan- tities to ‘destroy the evidences of exter- nal explosion. Captain Sigsbee’s letter to Secretary mite in small quantities for the pur- pose of lifting the caps of the 10-inch turrets was written because of the diffi- culties in wrecking work which dyna- mite would overcome. The caps are riveted to vertical plates and it is prac- tically impossible for a diver working under water to exert enough force to break the rivets so as to permit the lift- ing of the caps by the derrick chief. With dynamite it wculd have been comparatively an easy matter to raise the caps of turrets and to remove the 10-inch guns. There are four of these weapons valued at about $250,000, and it is desired by this Government to get them as quickly as possible. Although Captain Sigsbee and other officers have Long recommending the use of dyna-| | been detached from the Maine ther wreck is as much the property of the | United States as it was when a floating | fortress with the American flag at its | masthead. “The Maine has simply gone out of | commission,” said Captain A. S. Crowne ‘inshleld. Chief of the Bureau of Navi< | gation, to me to-night. “She has not { been abandoned nor have any orders | been given for her future disposition.” It is generally understood that the | Maine will be abandoned as soon as the wreckers have completed their work, unless the Spanish and American gov- ernments should agree to an interna- tional commission, in which event she will be retained as the property of the Government until the investigation is concluded. The authorities have given up all hope of being able to raise the vessel, and she will be destroyed by dynamite at the proper time, in order to clear the harbor of Havana of such | an obstruction to navigation. MASSES IN SPAIN DO NOT WANT PEACE Would Not Deign to Discuss McKin- ley’s Proposal to Free Cuba. MADRID, March 27.—EL Liberal, re- ferring to dispatches from Washington, attributing to President McKinley a de- cision to propose that Spain should free Cuba for an indemnity, says: The Government may answer what it pleases; the Spanish people as a whole wil! not deign to discuss this pro- posal. Spain will go to war in fulfill- ment of her duty, but not for ephem- eral glories or the desire of conquest. 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