The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
CAUSED BY CUBAN WAR.
Serious Complications in
Which Uncle Sam Be-
comes Involved.
DAMAGE CLAIMS HEADED OFF.
Additional Precautions to Prevent
Fllibusters Going to Fight
Against Spain.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 19.-Secre-
tary Olney arrived suddenly and unex-
pectedly in Washington to-day and sum-
moned council of the Cabinet officers in
town which lasted for two hours. Mr.
Olney left Falmouth, his summer home,
yesterday morning for Boston and de-
parted from that city for Washington late
in the afternoon. He reached here about
noon and went almost Immediately to the
War Department, where he had an hours
talk with Secretary Lamont.
Shortly before o'clock Mr.. Olney called
on Secretary Herbert at his Office and the
two walked over to the State Department,
where Secretary Carlisle and Attorney
General Harmon, who had been sum-
moned by telephone, joined them soon
after. For two hours the four Cabinet Off
GERS were closeted with Mr.. Olney, and
during that time rumors of many sorts
and conditions hoated about the corri-
dors of the State, War and Navy building.
One rumor, which one of the Cabinet
officers promptly stamped as unfounded,
was that Mr.. Cleveland was i'll at Gray
Gables, but neither confirmation nor denial
could be secured to other stories which
sought to give an explanation for the sud-
denly summoned meeting.
1t was known that about the time Mr.
Olney reached the State Department Senior
Depuy de LONE, the Spanish Minister, had
arrived in Washington to-day, and this in
connection with Mr.. oIney's appearance
is the basis for report that the confer
ence concerned some new and serious turn
in Cuban matters, or related to the Mora
o1 1aip oh ha te1
decided to pay without delay.
But Mr.. Olney frankly disposed of these
rumors, SO far as they concerned Senor de
LONE. He said he did not know that
Senior de LONE was in town, and appeared
surprised when told it was so reported. In
quirv early in the afternoon at the hotels
and the Metropolitan Club, of which Senior
de LONE is member, threw no light on
the Minister'S whereabouts, and both the
offices of the Spanish legation and Senior
de Lome's were closed tightly.
Mr.. Herbert left for Olney's office after
the conference and Mr.. Carlisle followed
soon after. Mr.. Olney and Mr. Harmon
remained together until $3.50 o'clock All
the members of the Cabinet who were
present at the conference declined in the
most positive manner to say anything
| about the subject under discussion, and it
is evident they agreed to keep silence. One
member spoke in manner that indicated
that the cause of the meeting was of a
serious nature, but he declined to say one
word concerning it, or even to make de-
NAL of any of the many rumors that were
prevalent, except that Mr.. Cleveland was
not i'll.
While all discussion of the alleged rea-
sons for the conference will be mere specu-
lation, more confdenceIcan be placed in the
report that Cuban affairs brought Mr.. Oh
ney to Washington than in any of the ru-
mors circulated, for the reason that Cuba
is now the most embarrassing problem to
be solved by this Government, and, with
the exception of the Mora claim, is the
only question of immediate seriousness
that confronts the administration.
Statements concerning the organization
of filibustering expeditions in places on
the Southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts
have been prevalent during the past week,
and the revenue cutter service and the
navy have been doing all that can be done
to prevent such expeditions from leaving
this country for Cuba.
The Washington Government has been
much embarrassed by the frequent COM
plants of Spanish diplomatic and con-
sular officers in the United States that ex-
peditions were forming with hostile pur-
pose toward Spanish rule in Cuba, and it
is not improbable that it has been decided
by the President to take action that will
prevent claims by Spain against the United
States for violations of the neutrality laws,
and that Mr.. Olney's visit and the Cabinet
conference was for the purpose of devising
ways and means of protecting this Gov
ernment in that regard seems reasonably
certain.
Mr.. Olney will leave Washington for
Falmouth at II o'clock tomorrow.