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jill Spain Sonu of Their
Kist Powerful Ships.
ANOTHER SPANISH FLEET
Steaming Towards The Threat
ened War Center.
Madrid, March 3L-While
the situation here is outwardly
o f the calmest description, the
actual position of affairs is re
garded as critical by both the
['lilted States legation and the
Spanish government. The Uni
t d States minister, General
Stewart L. Woodford, is work
ing energetically for Spain’s,
peace until the first gun is fired.,
j. is known the Spanish gov
ernment admits the desirability
or necessity of complying with
the dunands of the I nited
States, and it is only in the dis-)
inclination of the ministers to
put this willingness into con-'
Crete form that the danger lies. [
If a conference \v;i.-> 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 interest 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 now dwelling on the meaning
of the w-,rd “immediately” and
insisting that Spain accept its
general interpretation.
The public generally is taking
little interest in the situation,
but there is a general disinclina
tion to believe that war is likely.
A dispatch from Barcelona
says that the armed yacht Giral
da, purchased by the Spanish
government from Harry McCid
mont, the English race horse
owner, after the vessel had been
ejected by the I nited States, is
now being fitted up as a dispatch
boat.
hl Pais says- four warships
been obtained by Spain in
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France, ami that negotiations
‘ are pending for the purchase of
several torpedo boats in Gnat
Britian. El Pais also says orders
’ have been issued to mobilize all
the Spanish warships, and the
itorp'do boat Halco is to sail im
mediately from Carthegea for
I Cadiz, where a second torpedo
'squadron is being prepared. Mil
itary engineers, according to El
Pais, are starting for the Canary
islands and the Balearic islands
,' are being fortified.
Italy, it is said by El Pais, has
decided to sell the armored
; cruiser Guiseppe Garibaldi, of
(‘>,840 tons and well armored, a
1 sister ship of the Varez, to Spain.
Two regiments, according to
El Pais, are going to the Canary {
: islands to strengthen the Span
; ish garrison there.
The Armstrong’s Spanish
■agent, a Spaniard in touch with
1 the government and commercial
I ,
people in Spain, has expressed
the belief that unless the powers
intercede there will be war. He
added :
“If the United States offered
■ money for our clearing out of
' Cuba, we could no’ accept; but
I if the proposition emanated from
I another 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 Sp.tinto wash her
hands of Cuba.
Senor Ortiz de Sarato, a prom
inent former carlist deputy who
has just been defeated at Vit
toria, expresses the opinion that
there won hl be no war, say
ing: “We have neither ships
sailors, soldiers, plans nor mon
ey, and the government knows
it. It will struggle to the last
end,then cave in.”
Senor Sarato, who was recent
ly at Cadiz, says the Spanish
warships, Polaice and Carlos V,
whicn the government announc
ed read}’ for sea, cannot possibly
be made ready sooner than in
two months.
MORE WA RS 111 PS COM 1 NG.
.Washington, March 31.—A
matter that caused a great deal
of excitement around the corri
dors and among the officials was
the information that had been
received from United States
Minister Woodford at Madrid of
the departure westward of a
formidable Spanish fleet of three
vessels. Naturally there was a
disposition to criticise the action
of Spain in this particular in
view of the many peace protes
tations that have been made by
that country, and such action
was regarded as anything but a
friendly move.
HER DREAM CAME TRUE-
A Women Dreamed That Her
Son Was To Meet An Accident.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 31
James, the G-year-old son o'
James and Mary Leedy, of Thirty
four and Charlotte streets, fell
from a third story window today
and was instantly killed. The li‘-
tle fellow was kept from schoo
by his mother because’last night
she dreamed that some dreadfu'
accident was about to happen him
She believes in dreams am
thought by ket ping him at horn
he wculd be out of danger. Nm
she says that if she had sent, hii
to school he would not have iallei
from the window’.
The genuine Spanish Iloo'
So.*p at Lloyd’s. Accept no imi |
tations.
ROME GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31. 1898.
THE BOLTERS
Gather Strength from Repub
lican Ranks.
FIERY SPEECHES MADE
Rupture of g. o. p. is Openly
Threatened.
W shington, March 31.—The
IL publicans of the house in favor
of prompt and energrtic action in
the Cuban mattt* r and who met
Tuesdap night in connference held
am thor meeting after the house
adj urned last night. Tuesday
night’s mee'ing forty-six mem
bers were present. Last night
they •< were reinforced by
S'xty-nine, making, a total of
115. T his constitutes considerable
more than a majority of the re
publican membership of the house
and the members present to
night say that 'hey by no means
roprisent the fn 1 strength of
those who will be satisfied will
nothing short of the complete in
dependence ot Cuba .
Many of the radica's favor arm-
M intervention and a few believe
the blowing up ot the Maine is a
casus belli. The speeches at
tonight’s meeting, while vigorous
and yielding nothing, wore never
theless in favor of giving the
president an opportunity to ma
ture his plans and of completing
t e negotiations in which he is
now engaged.
Many of the leaders in the
movemen' saw ‘.he president to
day, and all he asked wa? a brief
delay. Action by congress be
fore the pending nog >r.ations are
completed, he told them, would
embarrass him and might result
in a complete rupture.
The leaders explained this sit
uation to be conference. They
counseled acquiesence in tLe
president's desires, A rupture
with the administration was
greatly t> be deplored and should
they argued, only come as a’art
r sort.
They informed the confernence
ihat the president had said the
negotiations now in progress
would either fai’ or be successful
by the end of the week.
He said he believed they would
be successful. He did not indicate
their ua'ure,they saiu, and pointed
out that it would be manifestly
ruinous for the details to be madi
public at this time. They said
further that the president inform
ed them that he would in the event
of the failure of the negotiations,
place the whole subject before
congress and share with it th>
responsibility for what might
follow.
Mr Adams of Pennsylvania, the
ranking member of the foreign
tffairs committee of the house in
the absence of Mr. Hitt, whois ill
explain’d 'hat the sentiment of
the committee was strongly against
tny further delay, althougn he
himself was a conservative.
But he said the committee was
willing to defer to the wishes of
the president a<’d no action would
be taken at the mee'ing tomorrow.
On Monday however if a satisfac
tory solution had not been pre
viouslv reached action wonld he
had.
All the members present profes
sed ignorance of the details of the
oresidsnt’s negotiations, althcugl
-evernl said the nrcsideut assured
them if successful he thought they
v’-ni<! h” satisfactory
While these different reports
were made to the conference they
were unofficial and the conferenc*
'..(•itied at last to app mt a com
nitlee o eleven to wait 'jpou the
iresiden' tomorrow and explai
heir views of the situa ion, th 1
Icoinrnittee to report at a meeting
*to be is* I J toaiorrow night
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