The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-07

/ Up to 10 o'clock only Assistant Sec
rotary Day, Attorney General Griggs
and Representative Adams, acting
Chairman of the House Foreign At
fairs Committee, had seen the Presi-
dent. Judge Day, who less than an
! hour earlier had been with the Presi-
dent, returned about 10 o'clock. He
+ was evidently in a hurry and in 10
mood to be intercepted on an important
j mission Beyond the statement that
4 so far as he knew there would be no
/ special session of the Cabinet he
vouchsafed nothing as to the situa-
! ton, which was a few hours later to
/ be made known to the world. The only
I thing to indicate the significance OF
/ the day was the suppressed excite
ment about the mansion.
/ The porto cochere was lined with a
large, curious crowd as Mrs Mckinley
/ left the White House. leaning on the
arm of Major Heistand, the President s
military aide, to go for a drive.
! Senator Spooner of Wisconsin was
the first member of the Senate to see
/ the President
! Assistant Secretary Day and Attor-
I ney- General Griggs remained with the
/ President over an hour. They went
/ over the message at great length, dis
cussing some of the paragraphs in de-
/ tail
! Senator Frye, a member of the For
! eign Relations Committee. and Repre-
sentative Adams. the ranking member
of the House Foreign Affairs Commit
| tee. We're together some time at the
| White House.
Assistant Secretary Day was asked
! if the recall of either Minister Wood
| ford at Madrid and Consul General
Lee at Havana had been formally or
dered.
No was the reply; "but ample
measures have been taken to provide
for them"
| Whether a draft of the message had
| yet been transmitted to Madrid was
not stated but it is regarded as prob
able that it already has been communi-
cted.
! Senator Fairbanks of Indiana has
| been one of the most constant visitors
at the White House throughout the
crisis. AS a personal friend of the
| Chief Executive, his visits have been
almost nightly as well as daily, and
he has made numerous suggestions re-
garding the policy to be pursued. He
was with the President this afternoon.
Shortly after II o'clock there were two
more Cabinet arrivals. They were Sec
rotary Alger and Secretary Long, and
they consulted with the President.
1t has been many days since there
has been such an absence of Congress
sional visitors to the White House. Re
yond the leaders of Congress and sew
eral members of the Cabinet, the Pres
ident not only denied himself to all
| corners, but very few sought confer
ences.
Attorney General Griggs stated at
11:30 o'clock to-day that he under
stood that Consul-General Lee would
leave Havana to-day. That all the
Americans would be got out of Cuoa
at this time he was not sure, but As
sistant Secretary Day is credited with
SAYING that all of them would leave
to-day.
Representative Jerry Simpson Of
Kansas had a brief interview with the
President in which he sought a par
don for a constituent Owing to the
press of time he had to postpone his
pea lOT CleIHtllty III IO-IilOl loN.
The copies of the message were print
ed at the Government Printing Office,
and the strictest of instructions We're
given to preserve completes secrecy an
til finally placed before Congress. The
copies arrived at the White House by
II o'clock. They were Immediately
carried to the President for final sean
of the communications.
The most careful investigation in Off
cial circles tonight failed to develop
anything in support of the theory that
the delay of the Presidents message
was due to the situation at Madrid
rather than that at Havana. When
the announcement was first made to-
day that the message had been with
held the inference was drawn in some
circles that the delay was partly in
fuenced by the action of the Queen Re
gent, who was reported as willing to
include everything demanded by the
United States, provided it could be done
without precipitating a popular disturb
ance in Spain. Press dispatches of a
pending Cabinet crisis in Madrid tend
ed to confirm this. Those closest to the
President refused to discuss the Madrid
situation, further than to say there was
no information from that quarter and
no fresh negotiations has been opened.
1t is reported the cruX of the situation
was in Havana This was confirmed by
members of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, to whom these explanations
have been made in such form that they
professed themselves satisfied to accept
it.