The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1898, Page 1

DL ANy S g, from | e : e Cal ——— VOLUME LX XIIIL.—NO. 1 PRESIDENT SAYS HE WILL FREE CUBA ON MONDAY VIEW OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOR OF CARTAGENA, The Spanish Warships Cristobal Colon and Infanta Maria-Teresa, With the Torpedo SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898 — TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONGRESS WILLING TO CONCEDE HIM THAT MUCH TIME Something Very Close to an Ultimatum Sent to Madrid, and Sagasta Pleads for Delay. . McKinley Still Believes That Spain Will Yield Without Fighting, but the Temper of America Is Not to Be Trifled With. NEW YORK, March 30.—The Herald’s Washington correspond- ent telegraphs: “If I do not succeed in frecing Cuba by Monday I will ask Congress to declare Cuba free.” WILLIAM McKINLEY. Qut on Their Way to the West Indies. SAGASTA APPRECIATES THE CONDITION THAT NOW CONFRONTS SPAIN It Is in the Disinclination of the Ministry to Put Its Concessions in Distinct Terms That the Greatest Danger Lies. MADRID, March 30.—While the situation here is outwardly of the calmest description, the actual posi- tion of affairs is regarded as critical by both the United States Legation and the Spanish Government. The United States Minister, Gen- eral Stewart Woodford, is working energetically and will continue to work energetically for peace until the first gun is fired. It is known that the Spanish Government admits the desirability of *complying with the demands of the United States and it was only in the disinclination of the auinisters to put this willingness in concrete form that the danger lies. If a conference were to be held with British, German or French diplomats the matter would be settled without question. The point which General Woodford is now pressing is that in the inter- est of humanity, hostilities in Cuba must cease immediately. No date was | fixed either in the first or in the pres- ent note, but the United States is (4] 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000 CHARITY WITH NO RAKE-OFF. SEATTLE, March 30.— abandoned his attempt to courage and contribute to yellow jJournal n emissary of the Journal-Examiner has ork™ the people of this community to en- methods. Repeated efforts There is an armistice over the Cuban | @000 000060000 0666000000000 00600066006060 question, and it is not between Blanco | $8 @@ ®ee00006ccbeeoe sseetscsovensntsres and Gomez. It is between the Presi- | ¢ ¢ dent and Congress, and it will last until | ¢ & RECONCENTRATION IN 5 :: Moy Proident, MKmOQ T S3 . B THE EASTERN SROMINCIE - o¢ he is not able’'to report to them by| && IS NOW AT AN END. <o SPAIN. that time that the independence of Cuba| ¢ @ eo has beén assured he will be ready to co- :: st s e j in any policy the; N/ N, Marc] .—The Spanish legation here late to- @& Boat Destructar, Coming. gpgrate with ‘hlem T POKE. LNT] o ntgnt foctivet weabiegrih e the - Gavertiy Ushersl af Cubs <@ be" L desire to {)rmulate. ©@ saying the captain-general reported the pacification of the eastern % Thus, from chaos fo cosmos. thel &6 'provinees 8o fas advanced that it had been decided to rescind the & o events of this historic daydhave march bheg :0 reconcentrado order in these provinces and sllow all subjects of & 20 2 rapidly. The day opened witl ot! ® this decree to return to their homes in the country. ®e R L e L hopuscz of Congryess ready to take the g: To aid in the re-establishing of the reconcentrados upon their ¢ & lgs g rid out farms the cablegram stated the Government will grant them the & & " CONSUL-GENERAL LEE q??;f;‘,rzfsi:;&ef:“g: 'hfj:;c"miign_ @ protection of the Spanish military forces augmented by local re- & & WILL NOT RESIGN. i s iority in both | & & lief committees to look ‘after their immediate needs. eo TR ably an overwhelming majority in both | ¢ & " Beonomic kitchens, it says, are to be established to support the & & 1 E | houses favored such a step. | ®® reconcentrados while waiting for their first crops to mature, and ® & i h:‘,eiflmes Gordon Ben- & | .y re were several reasons for this.| © ® they are to be furnished farming implements and seeds by the Gov- & & HAVANA, March 30—Consul- % |In the first place, everybody in Con-| @& ernment. To supply them with ready money, such of them as are @& General Lee said when I told him | gress believed that the President had | ©© able will be given employment on public works, and it is asserted & & there was a rumor in the States been influenced on the side of peace so ¢ by ".he authorities that these measures will result in the speedy re- @ & that he had. resigned: “I have werfully as to lose sight of all the| &€ habilitation of the rural communities in the western provinces. e not resigned. I shall not resign P involved. Unfounded thouch &0 This cablegram was not made public till more than an hour ©& while affairs are in the present J s DN - = fel, €@ after midnight and no official comment upon its significance could @ & unsettled state. 1 am here to £ty suspcion may ha\c been, they elt] ¢ be secured. e represent the Amerlcan ‘people they would be willing to meet Spain | ¢4 e and, like a sentinel on duty, I will % half way on matters that within their | 000006000000 0000600000000000066006606060 PPOIPPCOOPPOOICVVCBPVOOVDV000000660666 remain at my post.” One body was recovered from | opinion could possibly admit of com-| | promise. For instance, they thought | oy qay evidences of a willingness to | BB B R BRRRREERRELRE, were made to raise contribu columns o York was to rec siderable indignation ex anything to do with A new and legitir Thomas J. Humes c to consider ways and incans held this evening and an organiza necessary have been volunteered. of the lost sallors. CCO00O00CO000DLTO0000C0000000 e the citizens here to organize and adopt means to nument to be erected in honor of the he- When the fact became know.. ‘hrough the ir special e 10 per cent of the amount collected there was con- As a consequence nobody would have vement, her twent aiding the distress. Humes chairman, E. O. Graves treasurer, and Will A. Steel secretary. It was decided to give a mammoth theatrical benefit from 1 to 5 o’cloci on the afternoon of April 16 in the principal theater. re will not be one dollar of expense, as the talent and everything Every dollar of the receipts, which will likely aggregate several thousand dollars, will be forwarded for the benefit of the maimed survivor: representative sent from New was b one represe however, and Mayor ative citizens The meeting was on was effected by electinz Mayor s of the Maine and for the families 00CC0COCO000000000Q000000CO000C0000000 now dwelling upon the meaning of according to El Puis, are going to the States Government to-day opened a re- the word “immediately” and insist- ing that Spain accept its general in- terpretation. The public generally is taking little apparent interest in the situation, but there is a general dis- inclination to believe that war is likely. A dispatch from Barcelona says that the armed steam yacht Giralda, purchased by the Spanish Govern- ment from Harry McCalmont, the ' Pnglish race horse owner, after the vessel had been rejected by the United States, is now beirg fitted up as a dispatch boat. ! El Pais says four warships have been obtained by Spain in France and that negotiations are pending for the purchase of several torpedo boats in Great Britain. EI Pais also says | orders have been issued to mobilize all the Spanish warships and that the opinion that there w?uld be no | the torpedo boat Elcon is to sail im- | WaT, saying: “We have neither ships, | mediately from Cartagena for Ca- sailors, soldiers, plans nor money and | officers of diz, where a second torpedo squadron the Government knows it. It will| is being prepared. Military engineers are starting for the Canary Islands,‘ and the Balearic Islands are being] fortified. Italy, it is said by El Pais, decided to sell the armored cruiser | Guiseppe Garibaldi, of 6840 tons, and | well armored, a sister ship to the Varez, to Spain. Two regiments still, Canary Islands to strengthen the Spanish garrison there. . The Armstrongs’ Spanish agent, a Spaniard, who is in touch with the Government and commercial people in Spain, has expressed the belief that unless the powers intercede there | will be war. He added: offered money for our clearing out of Cuba we could not accept, but if the proposition emanated from an- other power it is not unlikely that it would be accepted.” This view of the case is echoed by a portion of the Spanish press, which advises Spain to wash her hands of Cuba. Senor Ortiz de Sarato, a prominent former Carlist deputy, who has just been defeated at Vittoria, expresses struggle to the last, then cave in.” Senor Sarato, who was recently at Cadiz, says the Spanish warships Pelayo and Carlos V, which the Gov- has | ernment announced ready for sea, | cannot possibly be made ready sooner than in two months. Recruiting Office Opened. PORTLAND. March 30.—The United “If the United States| cruiting office here for the enlistment of men for the navy. TORPEDO-BOAT ROWAN NEARING COMPLETION ‘Will Be Christened by the Wife of Lieutenant Moale of the Helena. SEATTLE, Mareh 30.—The Govern- ment torpedo boat Rowan, which is building in this city, will be launched on April 8. | hurried for some days past at the in- stance of officials at Washington. After | the Rowan is in the water her arma- ment will be put on and she will be ready for service in two weeks after launching. The boat will be christened by Mrs. Edward Moale Jr., wife of | Lieutenant Moale of the Helena. |OFFICIAL SECRECY BREATHES OF WAR the Army and Navy Forbidden to Talk About Army | and Navy Plans. | WASHINGTON, March 30. — The |grentest secrecy prevails in many of | the bureaus of the War and Navy de- partments in regard to the various pro- jects of defense and naval movements now going on and the officials in many cases positively refuse to make public i steps that have been determined upon. | pess aff: kind, The most notable instance of the 0O0OCOCDO0OCOOOCOO000000C0C000 Her construction has been | saBRBBBBBSBBBABBBBBBBHBBBBBBBENRRRR any information except on permission | ® o b hid hd from himself. The order is as fol- lows: Officers, clerks and all employes of the bureau are forbidden to make public any information concerning the movements of | | ships, orders to_officers or other official | © business of the bureau, except they have | ® personal and explicit 'information from | & | me. | g EARTHQUAKE FAILED lg TO SCARE SAMPSON. |3 TG |& Incident in Which the Commander | ¢ of the Key West Squadron _Ig Figured. S <§ NEW YORK, March 30.—A Washing- | & ton special says: Representative Hil- | | born of California, member of the| | House Naval Affairs Committee, is cer- | tain that Captain Sampson, recently | & | appointed to command on the Key West | & | squadron, is exactly the right man in |2 | the right place. 54 | “I shall never forget,” sail Judge & | Hilborn, “the last time I met Captain |® | Sampson. It was in my office in San|® | Francisco. While we were sitting in | © | that tall building there was a terrible | | earthquake shock. The structure fairly rocked, and it seemed to me as if it was about to tumble down. People rushed madly dowa the stairways and g 1 was about to run riyself, but so calm | g and collected was Captain Sampson‘@ that I became ashamed of myself and | o was compelled to listen to him. Cap- | tain Sampson kept right on with his conversation as if nothing had hapJ pened.” Forrest to Be Taken East. LOS ANGELES, March 30.—A writ of habeas corpus in the case of Dr. W. E. Forrest, an alleged embezzler of New York, was _denied by Judge Shaw this morning. Forest's attorneys announced that they gave up the case and he was turned over to Sergeant Price of the New York police force, who has given Dr. For- rest until to-moITow to arrange his b airs. He will then be taken East Q80000090 99009000 to be tried. Harrison Favors Intervention. Don de Quille Is Dead. The Many Allases of Brooks. THIRD PAGE. Reed No Longer the Czar. Spain Seeks Aid {n Europe. House Awaits the President. Senators Willing to Walt. FOURTH PAGE. Schooner Meets Heavy Gales. Collision on Southern Pacific. Rev. Avery Shepherd Dead. Fail to Catch Train Robbers. «How the Gang Buys Votes. Sitka Has a Mining Boom. Senator Enos Dies Suddenly. Garbage War Begins. FIFTH PAGE. Showing Up a Liar. Scandal In Street Work. The Berkeley Murder. A Military Review To-day. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. The Incident of the Maine. That British Allfance. Municipal Economy. The Fight for Pure Food. Great Britain and Her Foes. SEVENTH PAGE. Bob Mitchell at the Tivoli. Baseball Gossip. A California Girl's Success. EIGHTH PAGE. An Earthquake in Town. Two Milkmen Arrested. NINTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. Fitty Years a Priest. TENTH PAGE. Father Yorke on Remorse. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at Inglezide. Found Wife in an Asylum. School Census to Be Taken. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Sketch of Reno, Nevada. Officer Marlowe in Trouble. Hoft Gets Tangled Up. FOURTEENTH PAGE. The New Charter. TWENTY-FIRST PAGE. The Commerctal World. TWENTY-SECOND PAGE. The Riches of Kotzebue. , Ex-Deputies Want Redress. News Along the Water Front. @ | the House Committee on Foreign Ai- fairs also appeared and said the House was about to act independently of the executive unless it had definite infor- mation. Dozens of others, members of the Senate and House, told the Presi- dent they were sorry to come to the | parting of the ways, but they were | going to speak and vote for armed in- ;tervcntion in Cuba, Then it was that the President bowed £ | to the wishes of Congress and took his & | callers into his confidence to a limited @ | degree. He explained that he could not | yet make public the correspondence & | with Spain, because it was still being @ | conducted. The negotiations had been gi delayed in Madrid. He expected a definite answer to-morrow night. But 9900000669000 00 dent informed his.callers that he was second in patriotism to no man, and that { he was demanding , of Spain exactly | what Congress wanted. He believed | that the negotiations would result in the independence of Cuba. If Congress forced him to break them | off no one could foretell the result. | We would be placed in a false light be- fore the world. The President asked for forty-eight hours’ time, if Congress ~would give him no more. He also said to one caller: “If ‘I do not succeed in freeing Cuba by | Monday I will ask Congress to de- clare Cuba free.” . Monday being the extreme limit of time asked by the President, it"has been decided by Congress to give him until Monday. 5 In view of the incident in the House | ‘ 90900000000 000000000090000000000¢ 9009009020906 09960©| when Representative Bailey of Texas in the most positive words the Presi- | the wreck to-day, and more am- 1 L s ¢ . =g ik < - arbitrate the question of the Maine ex- ) e e nurnal corre. | ©©©© 6060866000006 plosion and of a compromise on the | PROTECTI?N FOR © spondent, was sent to Cadiz to- & |® @ | Cuban question short of absolute inde- | = SPAIN’'S COASTS. @ day on the steamer Buenos ® NEWS OF THE DAY. @ | pendence. : 5 g Ayres by order from Madrid. The & | & ; e g In the second place, the Congress- |gs CoPyrieht, 18, by James Gordon Ben- . British Consul was notified of % |@ Weather forecast for - : £ L g i his arrest last night, but not of % |® cisco: Fair on Thursday; light fog & :i: h:i b’;“m'"at"“f“”“i"“ _‘“:faicr‘;'i‘d [% BARCELONA, March 30—The % his destination. He will not dis- % | ® in the morning; westerly wind. & Sheaan - ost of them were airaid | g feeling that war is probable is % cuss the case. Musgrave himself % |® Maximum temperature for the past @ | t0 g0 home if decisive action against |# apparent from the feverish way # is ignorant of Spain’s plans re- { it iy il & | Spain were not taken promptly. |28 in which measures for protecting % . San Francisc o 2 o pre garding him when he reaches 3|5 portiand ... ®| The President began to hear from§§ §he Catalan coast and increas- % Cadiz. The Cnnsul‘dld not kngw |® [s,os ?_‘r;xele! © | the members of.both houses early. The | = c‘\]:s;;es;;‘g;:-]lpfi):::s {::e n:ils- g Musgrave was going to Cadiz %8| an Diego.. | e : % cussed, s e till after the steamer sailed, apd #|® Sacramento © | Senate “steering” committee called. and | &3 pyrpoces being offered from all % . 7 55 o @ | with many wags of the head told h % parts of Spain % did not visit him. 4 i g T A ReEs Ol S i ; . S “'he President to Free & | they were sorry for him and red a | 8 = % 3R B &K | o Spanish Statesmen Hesitate. @ | conservative policy, but the Senate was BN NRNSGS " s SECOND PAGE. oo " e Pind b y. is in the Navy'Department, | & Chile Will Sell a Battleship. 0| B0 t-.““ 3":"?1 l‘].“ht'fa" delle'zal. | tried to get ahead of the procession by | where Captain Crowinshield of the Bu- | 4 Havanese Oppose a Truce. & | tion went in and told him the peovle Ot | secyring immediate consideration of a | reau of Navigation has issued an order | Spain Makes a Warllke Move. @ | the Wolverine State believed we should | resolution recognizing the independ | forbidding subordinates to make public |4 Pay Dav at Mare Tsland. g | declare war against Spain. Members of | ERORKIEE | of Cuba, this becomes civnificant. There was no reason on earth whv it should | have had the slightest effect on the price | of stocks. It was not indicative of the | sense of the House. Mr. Fopkins, who. opposed it on the floor afterward, was chairman of the cenference of 115 Re- publican members who favored armed intervention. Speaker Reed, during the discussion, showed plainly that he too had yielded, | and had done it as gracefully as the | President had. The conference which | the Republican members held to-night | to advance the cause of armed interven- tion unless Spain immediately declares Cuba free really removes the last ves- tige of doubt as to what the House will do. It was a remarkable event. There | was no clap-trap—no fireworks. The | men who talked meant what they said. They all said Spain must leave Cuba. The 115 will be 204 when the House votes. The Republican strength is 204. A committee of eleven was appointed to wait on the President to-morrow and tell him there must be no hesitation and no drawing back. As for the Senate, the assurances the President sent to that body were suffi- cient to cause a change in its policy. The Senate, too, will wait until Monday. The authorities await with the great- est anxiety a definite proposition as to just how Spain proposes to let go of the island. While the President and Congress are in accord in their desire for the freedom of Cuba there is some difference between the demands made | upon Spain and what Congress expects. The President, for instance. would be willing to agree to an armistice, with a guarantee from Spain beforehand that the Cubans should have their indepen-