The age-herald., 1898-02-18
CUBAN STOCK GOES UP,
 HAWAIIAN GOES DOWN
Special to The Age-Herald.

11SAAA1 AA-~N~ annexation goes down. It moves with the regularity of clock work
 Last week every one was talking Ha- wall, and this week 1t is Cuba. The sem ators who last week claimed enough votes to ratify the treaty confess themselves at sea once more. Some of their votes are lost. so the opposition claim. In fact. Sem ator Cushman Davis, who Is leading the fight, refuses to allow a vote to be taken on the treaty, which shows conclusively that he fears he has not the sufficient num- Der of votes to pass 1t.
 If the treaty is defeated in the senate there will be little chance of annexing the islands at all during this sssion of con- gress. The friends of the treaty tried to force MT. Reeds hands by publishing the rep1t that he had told Senator Davis that if the treaty failed in the senate to send a joint resolution to the house and he would put it through in short order. Mr. Reed denied this statement, and de- nied it so positively that the friends of the annexation movement fear that he will not permit a joint resolution to come up at all in the present session. It must not be inferred that the treaty is dead or that the islands will not be annexed, for the administration is still hopeful of ratifica- tion. But the prospects are not as bright for the treaty as they were last week. Probably after the Cuban sensation has temporarily blown over, Hawaiian stock may be pulled again to par or thereabouts.
 Interest in the Cuban situation does not flag. While the DeLome incident may be said to be closed, the public mind here is left in very ugly humor. MT. Mckinley has done all he could to minimize the eff feet of the letter, and does not like to talk about it. The Spanish making the absurd charge through their attorney, MT. Caderon Carlisle, thatsMr. Days in- vasion of the Spanish legation at the time he confronted MT. DeLome with the let ter was unprecedented in ts,plomatic histo- ry, and discourtesy to Spain. The Span ish attorney says that the Spanish lega- . tion is Spanish soil, and that while no apology will be asked, still in purely personal way he takes occasion to protest against repetition of the overt act. MT. Carlisle claims that there Is precedent for Judge Days action, especially as the assistant secretary entered the Spanish minister's house on a hostile mission pre- determined to order him out of the coun- try. Neither Judge Day the president will notice the diplomatic quibblings from Spain's attorney. The president is said to be very much pleased with the manner in which Judge Day has handled this case, believing that everything has been done to protect the honor of the government while at the same time nothing has been done regarding the personal aspect of the case.
 Those who expected to see some imme- ,l:-4. -t.- T.. policy of the president a result of the DeLome incident will be disappointed Had the president decided upon some radical action at this time, he would have prob- ably postponed carrying it out for the present. Every one here feels that this DeLome incident is only another link in the chain of events which are leading to the recognition of the Cubans as bellig- erents.
 As I said before, another turn or two of the screw will have to be made before Cuba is free. Everything points to the theory that these wifi not be made until political exigencies of the republican party demand it. It is also necessary to- ap- proach a foreign complication slowly. It can only be hastened by some radical proclamation by the executive. President
 
 ligerency as long as 1t is possible, hoping that the natural course of events will bring about the same result without fore ing him to take the initiative.
 The Loud bill to amend the postal laws in regard to second class matter. comes up in the House on March 1. It will be debated for three days, and a vote will then be taken. The outlook is now that the bill will pass by a big majority. It passed the house last session by large majority and failed in the senate on ac- count of the short session. There is a strong lobby behind the opposition to the bill, and they will use every effort to de- feat its passage.
 It now looks as if Speaker Reed would be able to carry into effect his plan for an early adjournment of congress. Nine out of the thirteen appropriation bills have passed the house, four have already passed the senate, and the others are ready to be taken up The only thing that can keep congress here is the consideration of the Cuban and Hawaiian questions by the senate. It is wen known that the friends of the treaty are unwilling to let the matter go over, and will insist that action be taken this session. If the treaty IaliS or ratiHcation ana the question comes up in the form of joint resolution more time will be consumed, and 1t will be an open question when the matter will be fin- ished.
 As to the possibility of a river and har- bor bill being passed this session, the out look is not the brightest If one is re- ported it will be a very small one. Word has been passed that expenses must be kept down, and the river and harbors corh- mittee has been informed by the speaker that it must do it's share The democrats and those republicans who want appro- priations are kicking against this and may unite and force action. If they do. they get almost anything they want by system of log-rollng.
 HAROLD EVERETTE CLAY.
 THE DERELICT.
 By Rudyard Kipling.