The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-06-18
TO GO TO SPAIN.
Calhoun, Not General Woodford, VIII
Be Minister at Madrid.

Be Minister at Madrid.
New York, June 16.-A dispatch
from Nashville, Tenn, says that ex--
Commissioner Calhoun, who went to
investigate the Ruiz case and the gen.
eral condition of things in the island of
Cuba for President Mckinley, is the
man who is most likely to be named
for minister to Madrid, and not Gen
eral Stewart L. Woodford.
Secretary Sherman said today:
"No, General Woodford's name has
not been mentioned to me by the presi-
dent in connection with the post of
minister to Spain. I know General
Woodford, and he would be an excellent
man for the place, but as understand
it, Mr.. Calhoun, who has just returned
from Cuba, is to be sent to Madrid as
the representative of this country at the
Spanish court. There have been a
good many conflicting reports made in
regard to this mission, owing to its i'm
portance at this time and because the
president has really had in mind several
gentlemen for the place."
Morgan Has Theory.
New York, June ia dispatch tC
the World from Washington says:
Senator Morgan in an interview last
night said:
81 have information from most re-
liable authority that Cuba is under the
control of completely organized civil
government, stronger than it was ever
before, and SO established that it is i'm
possible now for the Spaniards to over
throw it. The Cubans have, by the
natural resources of that part of the
island in which they are dominant,
sufficient food and supplies to sustain
them to the end. The tactics of Gen-
eral Gomez battles the Spaniards effec-
tually.
"In the meantime the situation is so
grave in Spain that the government is
obliged to keep at home all of its regu-
lar army of trained, seasoned, disci-
plined troops, an army of $4,000 men,
so, 600 of whom might have been land
ed on the island and swept 1t from one
end to the other. But that is now out
of the question. These soldiers are
wanted at home to meet dangers that
are threatening the throne. The Span
ish government is afraid to put in con-
troll man in accord with its past
policy.
1T is impossible for me even to con-
lecture what President Mckinley will
do, although am not at all inclined
to impute to him unpatriotic motives.
But whatever this government may
do, am satisfied that this is one revo-
luton which will not go backward.
Work has already been accepted and
established which must result in the
independence of Cuba.
''The senate's action defining the re-
lations between Spain and Cuba is a
firm and irrevocable declaration that
there is war in the island of Cuba.
"The administration is subjected to
the pressure of two classes of American
citizens concerning themselves about
purely business matters. One lis that
which is said to have between $5e, ,O00,-
900 and 500, 900, 600 invested in the
island. The other is the class which
in this case, as we'll as in every case
like it, avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to make money out of the di-
lemmas and distresses of others. which
would have as the basis of Cuban indie
pendence the issuance of $50, 900, 600
of bonds, one-half to be devoted to re-
placing the losses sustained by Ameri
cans and the other half to go into the
pockets of the bondholders and bond
placers. This government I think is
now in state of contention with these
influences. No matter how earnestly
the president may believe in doing JUS
tice to Cuba or how great his desire to
promote her independence or his zeal
to take care of our people and the
rights of the island, he is handicapped
by the crowd that are only seeking to
make money out of the misfortunes of
others"