The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-23
ORDERS FOR MEADE
Secretary McAdoo Gone
a-Cruising on the War
ship Columbia.
OUR FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTs
Much Anxiety Regarding the
Spanish Ministry-Real Reasons
for Thurston's Rebuff.
OUR FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTs

! WASHINGTON. March %, 1ss5.-The
cruiser Columbia, now on her way to
South America. it is stated, carries inn
/ portant dispatches to Admiral Meade.
/ Neither State nor Navy Department will
/ confirm this report, which, however,
comes from reliable semi-official sources.
lt is asserted that the communications
1 which Capt Summer carries relate chiefly
| to the Allsanea affair. They contain, it
is said, all communications between the
Department of State and Minister Tay-
lor on the subject the report of Captain
Crossnan regarding the firing on his
vessel and a description of the gunboat
which fired the shots All information
| IN the possession of this Government
| on the subject is given, and Admiral
Meade is instructed ITO gather any adj
that he can for the use of the Depart
ment OF state. He is also directed as
to the use of the vessels under his COM
mand in the waters in the vicinity Of
Cuba.
A cablegram was received at the Navy
announcing the departure OF his squad
ron. the New York, Minneapolis and
Cincinnati, from San Domingo, Hayti. for
Kingston. Jamaica. Assistant Secretary
McAdoo, of the Navy, is a passenger on
THE SPANISH MINISTRY.
Considerable curiosity is felt here as
to The political complexion of the new
Spanish Ministry. From the tenor Of
the United Press dispatches from Mad
rid yesterday it is regarded as not un-
likely that Canovas del Castillo will form
Cabinet. AS Canovas is the leader
Of the Conservative party in the Cortes,
his ministry would be essentially a con-
servatiye Ministry This would result,
IN all probability, in Senor Muruagua, the
Spanish Minister at Washington, maxi
ing the tender of his resignation per-
eInptory, inasmuch as the Minister is
Liberal and could not, therefore. serve
under a Conservative Prime Minister
American diplomat, who was q Republic
can IN politics, could serve in 2 highly
responsible position under a Democratic
Administration.
Minister Muruagua himsef declines to
say what he VIII do in the event that
the next Ministry should be Conservative
but persons here who are familiar with
the politics of continental Europe say
tnat in the very nature of things his
resignation would be at least rendered
TO GanoYas whether accepted Immediate
The party now in power is the Liberal
party. On economic questions the Lib
erals favor a low tariff and wider com
mereIal relations with the remainder of
the, world. The Conservatives are the
the Liberals the Reactionary Party.
Their attitude toward Cuba would be
much more. repressive than that as
summed by the Liberals. They would, It
is believed, declare the island to be in
a state of siege and at once p7s,ciai1s1
martial law IN the SIX provinces. The
severely dealt with than they are at pres
eIlt and a long ami bloody internecine
war would follow lastang, it is feared.
several years, IS was the case N the
revolution of twenty years ago.
me succession OF Conservative Min
dissolution of the Chambers and the
ordering OF a new elction. The effect
of this would be to seriously embarrass
Kingdom, inasmuch as four or five
months would elapse before the elections
could he. held and this period would be
materially heightened before the new
chambers would have an opportunity
to vote appropriations for the next fiscal
Canovas del Castillo has been twice
Prime Minister. first under .Alphons's
XIII. He was also the immediate pre-
decessor OF Sagasta, the Liberal. who
THURsToN's iNsoLENcE.
me precise complaint which was for
IN the customary manner through Min
lister Willis upon which Minister Thur
ston's recall was requested, stated that
he had made statenants to the press
reheGtlrg upon the American Minister
at Honolulu and INTENDED to discredit
him and unpaid his usefulness.
1t is claimed that when confronted by
Secretary Gresham with certain pubii-
cations of this character Mr.. Thurston
acknowledged himself as the source
lIOttl LIS iIllOIuilllIOn nal D6e1
derived. and also admitted HIS mistake in
giving the matter publicity, and upon
this Secretary Gresham Immediately
represented to the Hawaiian Republic
that Mr.. Thurston was no longer well
come in am official capacity in Washing
ton.
The complaint that Minister Thurston
published official matters before COM
muncating them to the State Depart
ment was considered of secondary i'm
porJance, though the Administration re-
g'arded 1t as strange that he should have
officially confirmed the report that the
schooner Walberg had cleared from San
Francisco under contract to land 1000
stand of arms of which the Hawaiian
Government had captured only 800. This
statement. as printed, carried an impu-
tation that the ADMINISTRATION had per-
mitted arms to be shipped surreptiously
to Hawaii. Mr. -Thurston's publication
of the decisions in twenty-five cases of
the 3nsurrectionists tried by court martial
constituted no particular impropriety, as
the State Department had already made
public Minister Wills telegram announc-
ms that he had been informed of sew
eral death sentences imposed by the
court but which had not yet been APP
proved by President Dole. 1t is said
that the attitude of Minister Thurston
toward Minister Willis alone was made
the Immediate ground, OF declaring his
official continuance at Washington no
longer desirable and upon this repre-
sentation the Hawaiian Government was
relied uDOu to withdraw him