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Nor Consider Any Offer Looking to
the Purchase or Surrender of the
Island of Cuba.
NO REPORT FROM CALHOUN
AND NONE is EXPECTED SOON BY
PRESIDENT M'ExINLEY.
Telegram from Consul General Lee
Stating that About 1000 Americans
Are in Need of Relief.
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WASHINGTON, May 22.-There is album
dant reason for the statement that the
President has within the past twenty-four
hours received trustworthy advices which
convince him that Spain is not yet in the
mood to entertain offers of mediation from
this government and also that any propo-
sition looking to a surrender of the Island
of Cuba for a fiscal consideration would not
for moment be credited The explanation
has been made to representatives of this
government in manner and form that car
ries with it the force of official an
nouncement that Spain would no moressell
Cuba for price than it would sell the pail
ace at Madrid or part with the capital
province for a money consideration. That
explanation simplfies matters but rather
increases than subtracts from the RESPONSE
bilities that center on the President. The
delicacy of his position is fully appreciated
by the Republican leaders and renders it
certain that the House programme will be
shaped and carried out in conformity to his
desire for delay in the consideration of
the belligerency resolution until the eXecu-
tive can have time TO form a judgment and
fix upon a policy based upon the fullest
possible information touching the Cuban
situation. The administration and it's
friends are doing some very serious think
ing these days over Cuba. Sympathy with
the resolution is unquestiOnably sincere
but the purpose to keep this country out of
a broil with Spain over a settlement of the
Cuban question has impressed itself deeply
on the President and his advisers and is
never for a minute lost sight of. The indie
pendence of Cuba is the objective point to-
ward which Republican thought is being
directed with the question of annexation as
remote yet always possible contingency.
telegram was received at the State
Department this morning from Consul
General Lee, indicating that the number
of Americans in need of relief in Cuba is
much larger than was supposed at first
The consul general says that the number
may reach 1900. The consul at Matanzas
reports $50 there and the consul at
Sagua $50.
An Associated Press dispatch says: To
set at rest the common expectation that
a more or less sensational report the
situation in Cuba is looked for any day
by the President it may be stated that
it is not part of the understanding under
which Mr.. Calhoun went to Havana that
he is to make a report by mail or, indeed
at all until he returns to Washington, and
then his observations may be commune
Gated to the President verbally and not in
official form, for it is a fact that Mr.. Cal
houn's only official duty is an investigation
of the Ruiz case.
Speaker Reed was at the State Depart
ment to-day and conferred for some time
with Secretary Sherman presumably
touching the Legislative prospects of the
Morgan resolution. An interview between
the President and Senator Burrows who
a strong resistance
to the resolution at this time gives evil
dence of the Cuban situation still occupy
ing a large share of the attention of the
administration. The stormy events at Mad
rid yesterday have not escaped observa-
ton and there is some apprehension of re-
fex action in Cuba
United States Consul General Lee to-day
cabled the State Department from Havana
that the Spanish officials there have re-
leased Fernandino Gown, an American citi-
zen who has been under arrest, and he will
leave the island.