The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-02
CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE
The President Puts on the Fin
isAing Touches.
ITS MOST IMPORTANT POINT.
He Is Not Prepared TO Change His Cuban
Policy Prediction That the Cuban Re.
bellion viii Soon Come to an End-rhe
Cuban Junta.

e.shoh w ~ SUM &onAc " on nc
Cuban Junta.
wAsHINGToN, Dec. Z. -[Special. l--PresI-
dent Cleveland Is putting the finishing |
touches upon the last annual message
which he will send to the congress- As Is
always the case with the message Of an
outgoing president, there Is not much In
terest In II except such as attaches to the
Cuban question. No recommendations
which the president cares to make AS to the
tariff, the deficiency, the silver or banking
currency will receive the slightest attention
at the hands of congress, and II he makes
any such recommendations they will be
more In the nature of n valedictory address
to the country than anything else. But In
reference to Cuba whatever the president
may have to say will be looked for with
deep concern
The Cuban Question.
There Is strong belief here that the
president Is not prepared to change his
Cuban policy in any particular unless 1t
be with reference to the matter of recogni-
ton of the belligerent rights of the insur-
gents III Mr.. Cleveland had year and
three months instead of simply quarter
of year to stay In Office there can be lit
Viz uOuDU Ho WOulu thho up tuo Oubah
question in vigorous fashion and attempt
TO find some solution of the problem. But
in the nature of things he cannot consist
emily do so unless action be forced upon
him by some unforeseen event. 1t would
not DO fair to his successor In the White
House, to the country or to his own fame
deliberately to stir up a trouble which he
could not remain TO settle.
IN. ha firna Draoi6Qnt C1pya-
| land has been opposed to recognition of the
! belligerent rights of the insurgents He
was opposed thereto last winter, and the
resolution Of congress was made concur
| rent" instead of joint In order to avert the
necessity of its signature or veto by the
executive am told by member of the
J cabinet that Mr. Cleveland IS chief objection
| in the past to recognition of the belliger-
ency of the insurgents is due to considera-
| ton for the insurgents themselves. 1t
would really hinder their operations more
| than it would help them 1t would, too,
| add to the difficulties of the United States
government, already trying enough.
As to Belligerency.
am told 1t is likely the presidents
message next week will contain an intima-
ton that il congress in its wisdom thinks
it best to recognize belligerency no VIII
not object. This would DO q concession to
the prevailing sentiment in favor OF the
Cubans and would not greatly alter the
relations existing between tho United
States and Spain. General Bradley John
ston, who has been In Cuba as a news
paper correspondent, recently made the
prediction in an interview that the bel
iiecrency of tho Cubans would be recog-
I. t. chnrfly after thp
meeting of congress- and that this would
be quickly followed by a declaration OF
wnr upon the United States by Spain.
The first part of his prediction is conceiv-
able, but the latter Is not.
But n declaration of war by Spain on
this account is another matter. / asked q
member of the cabinet today what hi
Thought of General Johnston's prediction
and he replied: at is nonsense The right
to recognize belligerency is inherent in ev
cry nation. 1t is simply matter of con
venience for the government granting thu
recognition, and has never, save in ex
IRENE cases, been regarded as an act o
unfriendliness. If a merely local rebellion
, were 10 break out in some country, dis
turbance of temporary duration which TIL
government were known to be fully abb
, 10 suppress, and foreign power were U
lump in and recognize tho belligerency
the rebels, which, after all, Is simply
declaration that "a state OF war exists, TN
government having the trouble on IL
hands might justly regard this an un
friendly act But that Is not the case VIII
Cuba. The war there has boon going OF
for two years. The Spanish have lost con
troll of two-thirds of the island and ar
not making any progress toward recover
of it, III we recognize that state OF wa
0 exists as matter of convenience TO oui
: Selves, Spain will have no right to object
Z As n matter of fact, we know she will nc
8 object openly, though actually she ma
a wish we had not done It. Talk of war o
Q this account is absurd Most people cor
i found recognition of belligerency with re'
r oonition of independence. They are quit
: different things, and have little or no n
o lation one with the other. "
& A British Prediction.
o President Cleveland Is waiting till tn
: last minute before closing those paragraph
u OF his message devoted to Cuba. He want
' 10 hear the latest news from Havana, an
: more particularly the latest intelligence
d 70 the success of General Weyler in his pu
Il suit of Maceo. Weyler has accom1pl she
II nothing as YET, s-a there Is no likeli ,oc
o thathe will succeed In uUing anything o
7. fors the meetingof congress A men D.
II o,the Spanish legation in this city tells n
T. l/his people believe the Cuban war Will con
J. 4 to an end within few weeks. They int
. mate that General Gomez has been bougl
a off, and 1t certainly is queer that nothir
J. has been heard of his operations for sever
months. Maceo, they say, has out sma
force and Is running short of ammunitic
and will soon be compelled to cut and ~
for life out of Pinar del Rio when
" does, they add, he will be lost, and the
10 bellion will quickly come to an end.
1t This hopeful view Is not Endorsed
L. military men here and is, Of course. scout
d, by the agents of the Cuban junta. In
rs scorn the suggestion that General Com
30 has sold out and say Maceo will soon LEI
8 Weyler into trap and cut him to piece
is They predict that the winter will pass VIII
g. out Spain having been able to accomph
1t anything in the way Of suppressing the
A. beiiion, and that this will mean the aba
~ donment of Cuba by the oppressors. !.
Of am told, on high authority, that :
- | s..-..r - tho sifuatiou. so far as the II