New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-07
! NO MESSAGE UNTIL MONDAY
GENERAL LEE ASKS FOR DELAY.
LIVES OF AMERICANS IN CUBA IMPER-
ILLFD.
AT THE CONSUL, GENERALS URGENT REQUEST
PRESIDENT MKINLEY DECIDES TO HOLD
BACK HIS MESSAGE-THE POLICY AP-
PROVED RY LEADERS N CONGRESS
AMERICANS TO BE BROUGHT
HOME WITH ALI. POS
SIRI.E SPEED.


sIRrE SPEED.
Inv TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBuvEl
Washington, April GThe contingency hirted
at in this mornings dispatches to The Tribune
namely the postponement for few days Of
NIL 81 Fps looking toward forcible Intervention In
cuba for fear Of .mpcrilling the lives OF Ameri-
can citizens now awaiting deportation from
that isand-was realized to-day. when. at the
urgently repeated entreaties Of Consul-Genera
Lee. the President decided 70 Withhold TIL
Monday next the message which he had pre-
pared for transmission to Congress
As announced last night, General Lee
had yesterday been ordered in anticipation or
any possible disorders in Havana. to leave his
post at once and return with all the American
citizens who cared TO accompany him. to the
United States II supposed by the Presl-
dent and the State Department that General
Lee would be able 10 arrange by noon to-day
for the transportation Of the Americans in his
charge to Tampa or Key West. and that he
would himself. with the other consular officials
who have been summoned to Havana. follow
b Immediately on one Of tho Government vessels
remaining in Cuban waters.
Late yesterday afternoon a cipher cable DIS
patch WAS received from Havana In which the
Consui-Gcreral declared that IT would be diff
icult. II not Impossible. for him 10 get all the
Americans in his charge out Of Cuba before
next Sunday instructions were Immediately re-
turned that every effort should be made TO Sc
cure the necessary transportation by Wednes-
day n3on for the President was exceedingly
anxious that nothing should delay the announce
mont to Congress Of his plan for ending by
forcihle Intervention the miser!es and horrors Of
Spain's futile struggle to put down the Cuban
! iusurrec'ion.
/
To-day shortly before tho hour set FOR trans
/ hitting no message 70 Congress two additional
cable dispatches were received from General
leo. ~ which he reiterated his statement u
th. day before that Immediate transportation
could not be secured for the Americans In
Havana ard that the publication In thai city of
/ a Presidential message advocating inierf renee
hy the United states TN cuba threatened 20 lead
p, Demonstrations In which the lives n many
American citizens might be lost. According 10
/ General Lees statement. from one thousand
tuo hundred 60 one thousand five hundred
Americans some - whom had not yet reached
Havana. desired to take passage for Key West,
and this larg" colony would be left exposed for
ai least two days to the vioenc" OF the Spanish
volunteers y the President adhered 20 his decls-
inn 10 send a warlke message 10 Congress a,
once.
CpNGNESSMEN ACCEPT TIE SITUATION.
Il % by such appeals the President sent %
fle'Straie for Mossrs Davis. Frye and Lodge
- the Foreign Relations Committee. and 20 the
House for Mr Dingley. the chairman Il the
WAYS and Means Committee: Mr.. Cannon the
chairman II The Appropriations Committee. and
Sir Adams. 'h- acting chairman Of the Commit
tee N Foreign Anairs
To these leaders General Lcc's cable dispatches
IA hot ha do
termination was reached 10 postpone the trans
mission - the mcssar. and the Spanish CORE
siorderce t. Congress until Monday next.
Neither House. when the facts were communi-
,at.d 70 n showed any decided disposition to
rrumh'o a. ~" delay. for 70 all minds the obli-
cation 20 safeguard the lives II the Americans
now detained I'm cuba commended itself Of
paramount Importance.
Both branches of Congress are expected con-
sepucutly to await with patience and calmness
the .afr return of the Havana colony before pre-
pairing 10 act on the recommendations for inter-
vcnt.on which they had counted receiving
from tho White House today.
PLANS FOR BRINGING AMERICANS HOME.
To hasten the homo coming Of tho Americans
now in cuba the Navy Department arranged
to-day that the Mascotte. or the Plant Steam
ship Line. which left Havana this morning for
kcy West and Tampa. shall not finish her fun
tr.p. hut return tonight from the first named
port 10 cuba. and that the Olivettc. OF the same
line now partially disabled and IF service. shall
also go across from Key West to Havana TO
take or hor share nj, passengers With the
Fern. the Bache and the Mangrove also lying
IN Havana IIaIbor It Is expected that all the
Am, ricana assembled under General Lees pro
lection viii nnd themselves speedily under way
for Florida
1t may he added that under orders similar to
those sent 20 the American representatives In
cuba the working stat ~ the United States
Legation at Madrid to-day started for Paris,
leaving Minister Woodford alone at the Spanish
capital The families Of the Legation officials
were sent 10 Warritz. just across the border line
in France.
INDEPENDENCE SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS.
While the Presidents message is thus delayed
in transmission. an animated contest is being
wagcd I'm Congress over the form 10 be given to
the resolutions which are to express the assent
of Congress to the policy OF Cuban Intervention.
II IS known that the President will advocate a
programme Of Intervention pure and simple as
best adapted 10 secure American ends in Cuba.
But there are MANY Senators and Representa-
tivcs who seem inclined to subordinate these
well understood cnds-thc restoration Of peace
and order the reopcning OF commercial rela-
tons and the re-establishment OF a stable civil
adninistration-to n mere pulling from the fire
Of the political chestnuts Of the Cuban Revolu-
tionary Junta
The recognition OF Cuban independence.
though justified by no sound consideration or
either military or civil policy seems to be In
sisted on by n majority OF the Foreign heia-
lions Committee O; the Senate as an easy means
e,,I,ties which Intervention will entail. The
s.n,tp,ental example OF France and the thirteen
co,on,es is the only substantial argument ad-
vanccd in support Of the recognition OF the In
surroctIonary Government IN Cuba
rNTEpVENTION POLICY