Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-10-16
THE CUBAN TROUBLE
President Mckinley Wishes for No
Decisive Action at Present.
AUTONOMY FOR The INSURGENTS.
The President Offers His Service In Per
suading the Insurgents to Accept It
Justice Fieid's Retirement Neither
Confirmed Nor Denied.

WASHINGTON, Oct 1i.-President Nc
Kinley has determined TO recede rs
gracefully Us possible from his posi-
ton OF determined interference In be-
half of Cuba. The request OF the
Spanish cabinet for delay will serve
for an excuse and will be granted.
The reply of Senior Gullon, Spanish
minister OF foreign affairs, to Minister
Woodfords note to the duke OF Tetuan,
calls attention to the recall OF Weyler
and the change Of policy in the con-
duct of the war. 1t promises au-
tonomy for the island and n concilia-
tory attitude which shall conduce to
an early termination of hostilities. AS
to the time. when the operations OF
war shall cease, the Spanish minister
expresses hope that it will be in the
near future. All OF this will be ac'
cepted by the administration as proper
occasion for n modification OF every
threatening attitude. President Nc
Kinley and his advisers have gone no
further in the diplomatic negotiations
with Spain than public opinion, as ex'
pressed by congress, has compelled.
The passage of the belligerency reso-
luton by the senate, and the prospect
of n pressure to force il through the
other branch Mt the coming session,
led the president to undertake the So
luton or partial solution OF the prob
lem by the beginning of diplomatic
negotiations.
The first effect OF Minister Wood.
ford's inquiry was more serious than
ANTICIPATED, and for while 1t looked
us II there was no way but to go on
with an open declaration of war. The
fall of the Spanish ministry and the
conciliatory reply OF the Sagasta caoi'
net has opened way OF graceful re-
treat At least it has afforded an
opening for the delay for which the
administration appears to avail itself
of.
In his message to congress, which
the president has already begun to pre-
pare, the diplomatic correspondence
now going on will be set forth in full,
and President Mckinley will urge that
congress take no belligerent action UNI
tii the new captain general and the
new cabinet shall have had an oppor.
tunity to end tine war. Meantime the
American reply to Gullon will express
n purpose on the part of the United
States to prevent tilibustering. and
Gen. Woodford will be instructed to
tender the good offices Of President
Mckinley in persuading the insurgents
to accept autono my.
JUSTICE FIELDS RETIREMENT.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-Justice Field
refused to express himself yesterday
on the subject of his resignation. Mrs.
Field would neither confirm nor deny
reports of her husbands impending
retirement, though giving the impress.
sion that it was at least under serious
Amusement. At the supreme court 1t
was said that nothing was known
there on the subject and that any an.
nouncement must come from Justice
Field himself. That the members OF
the court believe the justice will de-
eide to make way for a younger and
more active man is shown by the fact
that they have postponed hearing sew.
eral important decisions until the be-
ginning of the new year, by which
time it Is thought quite likely Justice
Field may have retired and his sue.
cessor be in office, though of course II
is possible that the justice may in the
end decide to remain in Office, n deci.
sion he reached several times In the
past when his retirement was contem'
plated by himself.