The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-04
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Newspaper ,alk-Cubans Hold Joyous,
Mass Meeting in PhlIadelphla.
Madrid, March S.-A crowd OF the
residents Of Bilbao made hostile dem
onstration last night in front of the
American consulate in that city.
Several honorary American consuls
| have resigned as protest against the
action of the senate,
The government has secured in Ger
many all the Mauser rifles that will be
manufactured within the next few
months.
| London, March Sin it's issue to-day
the Times, commenting upon the Span
lsh-American situation, says: Should
| President Cleveland decide upon q
peremptory line of action, there is every
reason to anticipate war, which may
| be more troublesome than the Wash
mgtoni politicians expect Spain may
have little chance of INJECTING a decis-
! i've defeat on the United States, but it
| Is at least doubtful whether the lat
ter can decisively defeat Spain without
an expenditure far greater and more
| prolonged than entered into the calcu-
lations Of the sympathizers Of the
! Cuban rebels. There are other CONT
mental nations whose sympathies, at
all events, would be entirely on the
side of Spain in such a struggle. Proxi-
mus ardet is a caution never to be lost
| sight of in conducting national pol
| ICY"
The Pail Mall Gazette says: "Presi-
dent Cleveland should not, pass over
| the action of congress, especially If he
| is backed by popular opinion The
! recognition of the belligerent rights of
1 Cuba need not be precIpitate, and no.
body is anxious to back Spain through
thick and thin
The Globe says: IF the United
States government is calculating upon
using privateers it will find that the
| commerce of America is bigger mark
than the commerce of Spain. Spain
| could find plenty of privateers, for ev-
cry adventurous spirit in Europe would
be trying to get letters of marque."
| A dispatch from Madrid to the Pail
| Mall Gazette says:
The minister of finance reports an
increase In the monthly revenue, and
says that if the government should re-
| quire a loan he will offer the tobacco
monopoly and the Almaden quick-sil-
yer mines as guarantee, both of these
4 securities becoming renewable within
three years.
THE ministers OF marine and war are
making active preparations in their re-
spective departments
Paris, March 3.-The Figaro, in it's
comments upon the situation as be-
tween Spain and the United States,
says that, although President Cleve-
land is not the man to recoil from a
conflict with Spain should his electoral
interests require such a step, he will,
nevertheless, resist the excitement
which congress has stirred up. Ameri-
can statesmen, the Figaro says. would
do well not to exasperate Europe with
the Monroe doctrine. 1t is certain that
Spain will not give way, and it is diff
cult to see the benefit that the United
States would derive from a war.
The Matin says that the United States
senate has aroused the legitimate in
, dignation of Spain, but expresses hope
that the Spaniafds win not compromise
: their just cause by useless provoca-
LlOIl.i IUtlE liODIc SpllCltltQG ZOE luelt
national honor ought not to impel
them to extreme decisions whereby
their interests would suffer The Am
orleans are accustomed to these SUI
perb declarations, but they often have
no effect, as in the case of Venezuela.
The Estafette trusts that President
,, Cleveland will reflect before he pro-
claims the independence of Cuba
Spain, the paper says, will not allow
herself to be intiinidated by the AFRO
gance of the American senate
The Soleil says that the Spaniards
: did not tremble before Bismarck, and
they will not tremble before the Am
orleans.
Vienna. March 3.-The Neue Freie
Presse says that 1t regards Spain as
being in an almost desperate condition
Her only hope, it adds, centers in de-
cisive military success in Cuba. The
,, situation hangs by thread. Spain
may be on the eve OF a grave crisis. II
regrets that General Campos' opinions
We're not regarded, and says that Gen
eral Weyler's high handed management
of affairs in Cuba is mainly answer
able for the interference of the United
States.
Philadelphia, March 3.--The Cubans
! Of the United States gave vent las
: night to their joy at the passage by
congress of the belligerency resolutions
by crowded mass meeting in Warner
hall, The meeting was originally call
ed to commemorate the first anniver-
sary of the present Cuban revolution
but the recent action of congress rath-
1 er changed the character Of the assem-
: blage.
, 1t had been intended to pass resolu
tons asking congress to grant bellig-
erent rights to the Cubans, but the &C.
E ton of the national legislature diverted
these requests into a channel of praise
; and gratitude.
, Most of the speakers at the meeting
: were Cubans, and they addressed theil
audience in their mother tongue.
+; The tyranny and oppression of SPAR
: were pictured with all the glowing fer
vor at the command of the speakers
and the Spanish race was held up fol
execration and judgment.
Nearly every prominent Cuban in the
, United States was present, and len
either his voice or his support by hi:
presence at the meeting The meeting
4 was opened by DIR. Guiteras, presiden
of the United Cuban clubs of Philadel