The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-02
THE HAYTIEN WAR.
The Minister of the Black Republics Views
on the Situation.

The Minister of the Black Republics View
on the Situation.
! Especial to THE HERAID---Examiner Dispatch
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The news re
ceived from Hayti at the state department
on Monday last, and exclusively printed
in the Examiner and THE HERALD of the
2Sth inst, was officially confirmed by the
Haytien minister to-day.
The news was to the effect that the ulti-
mate triumph of Hippolyte's forces was
then assured, and it was only question of
few days when he would be master of the
| situation and compel Legitime to surrender
| OF flee the country. On the very day
of its publication in the Examiner
and HERALD. confirmatOry dis
patches were sent from Port-au-P Prince
via Cuba to the Haytien legation
here which were received by Minister Pres
ton yesterday morning. The writer was
Mr. Charles Preston, the minister's son.
He telegraphed that the war in Hayti was
ended by Legitime's abdication and that
Legitime and Hippolyte had each agreed
not to be again candidate for the presi-
dency, and that the north and south'' had
agreed that a new election should be imme-
diately ordered on the issue of mo foreign
interference in Haytien domestic affairs !"
In response to the Examiner correspond
ent's further inquiries regarding the dis
patch, Mr.. Preston said: Il know nothing
more than what the cable brings me. The
dispatch contains no details, owing 1 pre-
sumo, to the heavy Geographic tolls which
amount to two or three dollars word. MY
impression is that both sides are tired of
fighting and have agreed to end the war by
mutual consent. Their action is very sen
sible and patriotic
Whom do You suppose the Hay items will
nominate for their successor?"
Il know nothing, but it will pro badly be
either eX-President Boiss or Mr. Mergaon.
who has been Legitime's minister Of for
eign affairs. Both gentlemen are neutraIs,
and either would be acceptable to the late
contestants. The information that the
Haytien war is ended. will, without doubt,
Obviate the necessity of sending Commits
sioners Wallace and Tucker to the black
republic. Their appointments were re
vOked within an hour after they were made
public on Monday evening last, and they
have since been held in allegiance pending
further news from the island regarding the
internal condition of affairs there
Completing the Double Turreted Monitors.
Especial to THE HERALD--Examiner Dispatch
WASHINGTON, June Secretary Tracy
took another step yesterday in pursuance
of his policy of completing the double tur-
reted monitors. He ordered the Amphitrite,
now at the Harlan & Hollingsworth ship
yards at Wilmington, Del, to be towed to
League island. She will be completed at
that navy yard greatly to the disappoint-
ment of the Virginia people who have been
endeavoring to have the work done at Nor
folk to make good the loss of the Puritan
The five monitors whose completion was
provided for by the act of August 8, 1856,
are now at the navy yards or soon will be
where the work on them is to be done
Both the Puritan and the Miantonomah are
at New York: the Terror is at Boston the
Monadnock is at Mare island, Calf, and
the Amphitrite will soon be at League
island, Philadelphia
The appropriation bill provides that the
secretary of the navy should have at least
one of these monitors completed at a navy
yard and left it to his discretion whether to
have the work on the others done at d navy
yard or by private contract. The secre-
tary has decided to have them all done at
the navy yard. The sum Of So, Us, 046 was
appropriated by the act of 1886 for the mon
itors exclusive of the Miantonomah, and
there was special appropriation bill of
March 8, 1899, approprIating $4,000 for
electric lights for the Miantonomah, Terror
Manadock, Petrol and Vesuvius 1t is the
policy of the department to complete the
monitors as rapidly as possible and make
them an adjunct to our new navy. Each
one will be heavily armOred and have twin
screws, enabling her to turn promptly on
her course, The secretary believes they
will be valuable for harbor defense.