Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-29
WAR NOrE STRUCK.
The State Adjutant-General
Calls for Volunteers.
IN PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR
Bayard Requested to Tell What he
Knows On the Sam0an Mat
ter-Cabinet Quarrels.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, January 2S.-In the
House to-day Representative Ford, of
Michigan, offered for reference to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs the follow
ing preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, Recent dispatches from
Vice-Consul Blackjack at Apia, Samoa,
to the Secretery of State and accounts in
the public press have conveyed the in
telligence of great indignities offered by
representatives OF Germany to American
citizens and American interests in Sa-
moa; and
WHEREAS, In the correspondence trans
mitted by the President to Congress
April 2, 1888, touching our rights in Sa-
moa, there appears letter from the Sec
retary of State to the British and German
ministers asking the permission OF their
governments to make public the joint
protocols OF the Samoa conference held
between said Secretary and said Minis
ters in the summer of 1887, which per-
mission was refused; and
WHEREAS, 1t is alleged that the publi-
cation of these protocols would show
that Germany had violated treaty rights
and obligations solemnly entered into
with the United States;
Resolved, by the House of Representa-
tives, That the Secretary Of State be re-
quested to transmit to the House copies
of all such protocols and memoranda OF
the proceedings of said conference, not
incompatible with the public interest.
New YORK, January 2S.-A Washing
ton special to the Post says: There has
been for several days rumor that there
are sharp differences of opinion in the
Cabinet on account of the Samoan com.
plication. The latest form which this
rumor has taken is that Secretary Whit
ney or Secretary Bayard may resign.
Attempts made this morning to OBJ
tain any authorized information on this
subject were not successful.
A United States Senator says he is in
formed that there is much feeling between
the President and Secretary of State on
account of the Samoan matter, and that
the enlargement is of serious charac-
ter. This Senator says the President
holds Secretary Bayard responsible for
the situation, while the friends OF Secre-
tary Bayard insist that the President has
interfered in affairs of the State Depart
ment, and is wholly responsible.
SACRAMENTO, January 2S.-Adiutant-
General Orton is receiving applications
from volunteers for service in case of war
with Germany. He states that at the
present rate 10000 men could be raised
in thirty days.
WASHINGTON, January 27.-Secretary
Whitney's mail this morning contained
a long report from Captain Mullen, COM
manding the United States steamer Nip
sic, dated Apia, December Goth, giving a
detailed account of the occurrences in
those islands since December Sd. the
date of his last report to the department,
and covering the period of the engage
ments between the natives and the
Germans, and of the alleged insults to
the American flag. A copy of the report
will be furnished to the Secretary of
State, and will be transmitted to Con-
gress the latter part of this week, to-
gether with the correspondence received
on Saturday from Acting Consult General
Blackjack on the same subject. 1t is
reported as likely that the President will
have something more to say on the sub
ject when he sends to Congress the COR
respondence which has taken place since
his last message.