The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-04-06

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Washington. April THAT The prcsl.
dents message vii go 90 congress tomor-
row 10 lhc best information oblnlnable In
Washington ihls evening though th, m-
leido.cups NJ International events app
pears ,o bo moving so rapidly "a, Madrid
ar Go make pvsslble some new ana posri.
bly remarkable chang, In the aspect OF
arMm that viii prevent th, statement
holding good
rh, m"nsagc is ready making about
,cpo words. and has been approved Dos ,hr
cabinet
II recommends armed Intervention tbut
pa fnr HH known without stating that
| THE should br immediate hy the United
state. in prevent hoslllitivs II makes
argument against the recognition of in
/ dependence al thi- tim, ana leaves u
| clear that lu The opinion ~ the admins
tmuou 20 10 the duty o' this government
60 supervise the arair, Of the island un-
40 boo The llrht 90 o fuller and later
knowledge rabi" govcrnmcn, can be-
established
Tho attitude of congress In this policy
cannot be- torc,oid m advance OF the oil.
l ,ihl promulgaton of IN, presidents mes
sage
The day has been prolific of reports OF
/ mediation on the part ~ European pow
rrs. bu, the summary 0f an the news on
this po,n, Is that the powers of Europe
D
would Doe unacceptable To- the govern
/ mrui ~ the United siair. The safety ut
| General ic, and ~ the Cousuls and other
| Americans ln cuba ,s 81 matter of con-
ccrn 60 the state department but adyices
/ from General Ice indicate that the trans
| portAiluu of an Americans from cuba
/ would take some tin, and apparently
| showed that he did not share fully ,n thr
appr,hrnslons fclt here
Throughout, the day unusual activity
| Was manifested at the foreign embassies
aud legations representing the great pow
rrs ot Europe. Representatives. OF these
powers were kept fully advised boy their
| foreign Offices and It was expected that
/ u concerted movement would be made al
! most any moment About midday the
| British ambassador went tu the French
! embassy and conferred with NJ Cambon
, on the situation and soon after Count
Viclnnl the Italian charge danalrcs, was
at the British embassy, and again at .
! o'clock Il was understood that the French
ambassador and Austrian minister con
fcrrcd with Sir Julian paunccfoto at the
embassy. Hut while the conferences were
thus going ON and the apprehension was
keen over an anticipated move, II could
not be learned up 20 a late hour that any
actual oiIcr ot mediation had cvcntuated.
II certainly had not been made up TO the
close of Office hours at the state depart
mcnt
The German ambassador, Dr. Won Hol-
lcnbon. appears to be the only one not
actively participating IN the conferences
today, but there is reason to believe that
he IL kept fully advised Of the sentiments
at Berlin concerning the Spanish situa-
ton, Accompanying the diplomatic COM
mcnt was an ndercurrent Of suggestion
that the developments IN Cuba were not
unlocked for; that the pressure of the
powers and the pope on Spain might yet
bring about an armistice in which both
the Spanish troops and the insurgents
would participate, The Views from an
official standpoint here is that the time for
that has gone 10y and there Is little like
llhood that the insurgents could be In
duccd to lay down their arms, even for Il
time,
The Spanish minister, Scnor Polo y Ber-
nnh, It1 moi tukt mart I'm any of the
diplomatic conferences, nor did he have
occasion to visit the state department
during the day. II negotiations have
taken any new direction It has been be-
tween Minister Woodford and the author
tiles at Madrid, and not at Washington.
Al the capitol today tremendous efforts
were made TO have congress- support the
outlined policy of the president, The
general belief was expressed when the
house adjourned that u majority OF the
house committee on foreign affairs was
ready to support McKinlcys plan, and
the impression prevailed that a resolution
In line with the recommendations OF the
president would be made by the commit
tee,
There Is great deal of uncertainty re-
gardlng the senate committees, An inn
portant conference of conservative sena-
| tors was held during the day when It was
determined that In case the foreign relN-
tlons committee ala not report in accord
nncc with the presidents rocommenda-
tlons there would be long debate on the
resolution reported and unanimous ac-
| 4.