The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
secretary sherman's Demand for the
Minister'S Recall Presented as
Soon as Possible.
DISHYOWHL MAY BE ASKED
DE LOME'S REFERENCE TO AUTON-
ONLY AND RECIPROCITY
said to BE More Offensive than His
Criticism of the President-Com-
ments of the London Press.


Special TO the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Minister Wood
ford is being harshly criticised by many
persons who are displeased at the way in
which the De LONE incident is working out
its own solution for falling to get in his
recall dispatch before De LONE escaped.
II would seem that Mr.. Woodford was not
so very Ieaden-footed after ali. The cable
gram was sent from Washington Thurs
day afternoon at O'clock. Six hours is
allowed for difference of time and for trans
mission between here and Madrid. but the
dispatch should have reached Woodford be-
fore midnight 1t could not have been ex-
pected that the general would ring up Sa-
gasta at that time or to have sat on his
doorstep to catch him the first thing the
following morning. In all human probable
ity he delivered his message from his gov
eminent as soon as he could find anybody
TO officially deliver it to. No attention is
being paid at the State Department to these
criticisms of General Woodford, and it is
said that neither President Mckinley nor
Secretary Sherman will jump our repre-
sentative at Madrid just to please a few
LIMOGES who are disappointed because we
do not dispatch fleet instantly to Havana.
A point that may become of Importance
in considering the propriety of the action
of the Spanish government in accepting the
resignation of the minister without dis
claiming responsibility for any of the utter
ances contained in his letter has been
reached The Spanish government, it is said,
may not be aware of the contents of the
letter. There is reason to believe that when
it acted on Senior De Lome's resignation
it, indeed not up to the present moment,
the Spanish Foreign Office did not have
A.
may have acted on the assumption that the
document contained only personal criticisms
on the President. In this case the state
ments respecting the autonomy and reci-
procity measures, which it appears re-
garded as of greater Importance than the
personal criticisms passed by the minister
on the President, may not have been known
10 the Spanish government The fact that
Senior Canalejas the person addressed by
the minister. who is now in Madrid, is said
to have declared to the government that
he never received the letter would warrant
such an assumption, unless the cable has
been freely used by the Spanish legation
here, for this government has not cabled
the letter.
At the Spanish legation affairs have as
sumed a normal condition. Senior Du Bose
is In charge. He did not go to the State
Department this morning. This afternoon
ne made calls on the foreign represents
tives thus fulfilling Il social and official
duty by which the fact of his assuming
charge of the post is made known to them.
Senior De Lone is busy winding up his af-
fairs and preparing for departure The
time of leaving has not been set. Nine. De
LONE is directing the unexpectedly hasty
work of packing and reports of her being
Frustrated by the. recent occurrence are
groundless. No intimation has come to any
one at the legation to the new minister.
The several names mentioned in the news
papers were well known, but all comment
is regarded as purely conjectural-
Late tonight the State Department re-
ceived a cablegram from Minister Wood
ford, but owing to the late hour its con-
tents will not be known before tomorrow.
The cablegram is in the department cipher,
and is between two and three hundred
words long. 1t is supposed by the State
Department officials to be in response to
instructions TO Minister Woodford to adj
wise the department concerning the action
taken by the Madrid government with ref
erence TO the De LONE incident and to be
supplementary to Minister Woodford's dis
patch announcing the acceptance by the
Spanish Ministry of the resignation of Min
lister De LONE Until the receipt of the ca
blegram tonight nothing had been heard
by the State Department from Madrid
since Minister Woodford announced the ac-
ceptance of Minister De Lome's resigna-
ton and the brevity Of the dispatch is
taken to be an indication that it contains
nothing of particularly serious import.
Representative Lewis. of Washington, has
prepared u joint resolution which he will
Offer in the House on Monday, expressing
it TO he the sense of the House and Senate
that the President decline to recognize the
resignation of Senior De Lone. the Spanish
minister and instead inform him that he is
persona non grata.