The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-12-18
Failure Of an Effort to Keep the Sen.
ate i'm Session To-day to Consider
the Cameron Resolution.
LATEST CONCERNING MACE0
NEW YORK JUNTO CONVINCED THE
REBEL CHIEF Is DEAD.
Reiteration Of the Report that He IL
Alive i'm MatanRs-Ardent Sympa-
thizers Threatened with Arrest.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Secretary OIL
ney will be the news feature i'm Washington
tomorrow. He will appear before the Sem
ate committee on foreign relations and dis
close. confidentially. the information in
possession of the Department of State
bearing on the Cuban situation The meet
ing of the committee will be secret and
the lips of the members will be sealed.
1t is fully understood, however, that Mr..
Olney will give to the committee a state
ment Of facts in defense OF the adminis-
tration's position of noninterference. which
will. at the same time. be an argument
why the same policy should be maintained.
The Cuban sympathizers assert they have
a majority of the committee i'm favor of
reporting a resolution declaring IL TO be
the sense Of Congress that the United
States must interfere and extend material
aid to the Cubans. But IL is altogether
probable that the appearance of Mr.. Olney
will change the complexion OF affairs en-
tirely. 1t is well known that a number OF
the members of the committee. while
avowedly anxious to declare in favor OF
Cuban Independence, are, nevertheless i'm
pressed with the theory that this is not the
time for this government to go on record,
and that wisdom dictates delay. IL is,
therefore, entirely safe to classify several
OF the so-called sympathizers on the COM
mittee wavering. and it is to this ele-
ment that Mr.. Olney will address himself;
or, in other words, il is TO this clement
that the facts which he will present will
appeal with greatest force.
The secretary of state has the best infor-
nation of anybody in the world as to the
exact condition OF the Cuban difficulty. In
addition to the extensive reports submitted
by Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, he has
confirmatory advices from a great number
of government agents in various capaci-
ties. and also reports from reliable private
sources. 1t upon these advices that
that portion of the Presidents message re-
lating to Cuba ana Cuban affairs
based. and nothing has been learned since
to give a different coloring TO the conclu-
sions therein outlined.
Although, as before stated. the Cuban
sympathizers expect that the Senate COM
mittee foreign relations will make q
favorable report at once or Immediately
after the holidays, there are many reasons
for believing that disappointment is in
store for them and that the committee will
delay reporting until very late in the ses-
sion. In confirmation of this theory IL
| can be stated on the authority of the very
best kind that the House committee will
proceed upon the idea that IL is not the
| province OF this Congress to suggest any
| action which will i'm the least embarrass
| the incoming administration. The infiam-
matory resolutions on Cuba which have
| been submitted to the House during this
session have been safely sepuIcherec with
subcommittee consisting of Adams Of
Pennsylvania, Draper Of Massachusetts
and Tucker of Virginia all conservatives
| and all firm believers in the Presidents
| policy of inaction.
The Washington Post tomorrow will say:
| 1.-The secretary of state has cautioned the
members of the committee foreign re-
| lations to &C very slowly in regard TO the
| Cuban question. The secretary OF state ur-
| gently recommends that ali action be post
poned in Congress until the end Of the
present campaign, when, IL the Spaniards
| are not successful, he believes. as recon-
mended in the Presidents message. that
some form Of practical Intervention should
| be applied by the United States" The
| scheme of committing this government TO a
| policy of active intervention will. therefore.
| in all probability. be disposed of tomorrow.
AS before stated in these dispatches. q
| great majority of the members of both
branches of Congress are I'm hearty SYM
|
view of this fact it is hardly probable that
pursuance of such policy by the two COM
mittees on foreign affairs will be seriously
! interfered with.
An effort was made to-day. while the
| Senate was in executive session. to secure
reconsideration Of the vote by which the
| Senate agreed to adjourn over until Mon
/ day. In order. IL is understood, 10 give the
committee on foreign relations opportunity
| TO present a report tomorrow on the Cam
| eron resolution in case one is agreed on
by the committee The motion made
by Senator Carter, after a conference with
Senator Cameron. The friends of the reSo-
luton apparently did not realize that the
adjournment OF the Senate until Monday
next might have the effect OF delaying a
report until after the adjournment had
been decided upon. They then concluded
| that as these tactics would leave only two
days before the holidays. their measure
might be crowded out entirely until well
into January They had little hope of Sc
curing reconsideration, and the result OF
Senator Carters motion proved that in this
they were correct. The Senate declined To
/ consider the motion but acted promptly
upon a contra motion by Senator Aldrich
10 adjourn. The conservatives on the Gu
/ ban question are inclined to regard this
| result as significant showing the feeling
| of the Senate on this question. but the Gu
/ ban advocates assert that such is not the
/ case as the test was by no means full or
fair. The incident and the inference drawn
/ from IT, however, serve 10 bring 10 the sur
| face the fact which had been growing more
ana more patent daily. THAT there Ia .
strong element In the Senate opposed Ia
aI.y radical agitation OF the Cuban 0neo,