St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-08
Several War Ships Will Be Dis
patched to the Black
Republic.
A Pennsylvania Crank Imag-
ines That He Was Elected
President.
Grover Goes Cunning; and
Brings Down a Bagful Of
Squirrels.


government with regard to the case OF
the American steamer Haytien Repub-
lie, recently seized at Port au Prince,
Hayti. The release of the vessel has
been demanded through proper dlplo-
matte channels, and if the demand is not
complied with within a reasonable
period of time, steps will be taken to Ell
force it. With this end in view. Secre-
tary Whitney yesterday sent telegraphlc
instructions to Rear Admiral Cher
ardi, commandment of the New York
navy yard, to have the ships Rich
mond, Galena and Yantic prepared
for sea as rapidly as possible. 1t
was expected that these vessels would,
in the ordinary progress OF the work
upon them, be completed in about two
weeks. The idea now is to have them
ready so that they can sail direct for
Hayti early next week. Orders have
been issued to ReOr Admiral Luce, COM
manding the North Atlantic station, to
transfer his flag from the Galena to the
Richmond, and to use that vessel as the
flagship of the expedition. Officials OF
the state department are as usual retl-
cent Oh the subject, and will not even
admit that the release of the Haytlen
Republic has been demanded. Secre-
tary Whitney, however, is more candid
and outSpoken. When approached by
a reporter this morning he frankly ad-
mltted that he had ordered the three
gotten ready as soon as possible.
to start for Hayti. He added:
"There is a local disturbance there,
you know, and it is always a good plan
to have naval vessels near at hand on
such OCCASIONS. You remember that
the Haytien authorities referred the
case of the seized steamer to this gov
ernnent. Well. we have reached de-
cision, and that, in short. they have got
to give her up. 1t is unfortunate that
the yellow fever broke on the Boston
while she was at Port all Prince, and
compelled her to leave that climate.
Otherwise the matter might have been
settled before. Ii it was not considered
somewhat unsafe we would send the
Boston back to Hayti to aid the other
vessels in case of necessity. That's
about all there is to it. We do not
think the seizure of the vessel
justified. and are, therefore, de-
cred up to u.s." Orders were issued
this afternoon to the commandant of the
Norfolk navy yard,-to prepare the
United States steamship Ossipee for sea
service as soon as possible. 1t will take
little more time to do this than will be
necessary with the three vessels at New
York, but it is thought she can be fully
prepared to follow them to Hayti within
a few days. She will be sent to Port au
Prince unless something happens in the
meantime to render it unnecessary"
Secretary Endicott had an interview
with Secretary Whitney this morning,
and rumor started that it had been de-
cided to send number of troops to
Hayti to assist the naval force, but it
was subsequently ascertained that there
was no foundation for the report. 1t
is learned this afternoon that the
action of Secretary Whitney in ORDER
ing feet of vessels to prepare for an
expedition to Hayti is due not so much
to an absolute refusal ~on the part of
that government to. comply with the
request for the release of the seized
American vessel as 10 the dilatofy tao
tics adopted by the Haytien authorities
in dealing with the question. The po-,
sition taken by this government is un-
derstood to be that as the Haytien au-
thOrities referred the arbitration of the
case to this government they are virtu-
ally bound by its decision, and that
when they were Informed by this gov
ernment that they had no legal right to
seize and detain the Haytien Republic
they should have accepted the situation
and released the vessel. While they
have not refused to do this, they 90, it
is said. act in such procrastinating
way as to indicate strong disinclina-
ton to accept the judgment against
them.
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