The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-09
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An ArmiStice Now Would Make
No Difference.
Presidents Message Would Go
Just the Same.
CONGRESS WILLING
1t is Believed at Washington to
Accept
The Recommendation For In
PREVENTION First.
Recognition to Be Considered
RECOGNITION to Be Considered
Separately Later.

| Washington, April 9.-There were not
| many forenoon callers at the White
/ house today. Assistant Secretary Day
/ was more prompt in making his infor-
| NAL daily call than yesterday and by
| o'clock this morning, he had reached
| the White House and talked over the
| situation and the national policy. The
| interview, however, occupied scarcely
| five minutes and Judge Day immedi-
ately took up his duties at the state de-
partment.
There were reports that the queen re-
! gent would sign a decree declaring an
+ armistice in Cuba and that this would
| be followed by Cuban independence Ia
| ter, but in no official quarter here SO
| far as diligent inquiry could learn, had
| any confrmatOTy information been re-
| ceived.
| Senators Culpm of Illinois and Bur-
| rows of Michigan, were the first of the
| senatorial contingent to talk with the
| president. The latter just prior to the
| White House call had been in the state
department, where he had talked with
| Assistant Secretary Day. He said he
/ had heard the Fumors of the queens
intention to make final effort to avert
war, but he was not aware that any
| dispatch on the subject had been re-
ceived from Spain in the past "a hours.
| He suggested that an arnistice could be
| effective only with the assent of both
parties to it, and that in his opinion,
/ such action by the queen regent at
! this time would not change the situa-
ton
Senator Burrows said that if howev-
er, complete armistice is actually pro-
claimed, to cover period of say thirty,
sixty or ninety days, contemplating the
cessation of hostilities, it might present
a new and important phase of the stu
alton confronting the country. For"
he suggested eft would a
milton of the belIigerency of the Cubans
an official existence of war, and il is
to be borne in mind that the object of
our intervention Is the procuring of
peace. Now are we justified in going
into a war under the circumstances.
when one CT the parties offers to lay
intention of such a decree, are we to
question the good faith of such a coun-
try and ask if it means what it says?
1t might have a material bearing in the
present crisis. and It might not
Nothing has been received from Min
lister WoodfOrd, on the subject of a pro-
posed armistice, or indeed, upon any
subject Even were an arTniStice pro-
claimed by Spain, there is authority for
the statement that it would not change
the purpose of the administration to
force matters to an immediate issue
An armistice at this time, it is said
would not result in the postponement
of contemplated action even for a day.
Senators and representatives who called
on the president this morning, stated
that there was no reasonable expecta-
ton that hOStilitieS could be avoided
and that their business at the White
House, related entirely to the contem-
plated action of congress on receipt of
the presidents message next Monday.
The indications, it is said now are that
the resolution authorizing the president
to intervene in Cuba will not embOdy
any declaration recognizing the indie
pendence of the island, but if such ac-
ton is desired by a majority in each
house it will be made the subject of a
separate resolution to be introduced Ia
ter. This conclusion has been arrived
at, it is said, in Difference to the wishes
of the president
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina,
saw the president about IL o'clock Sub
sequent1y he said that he favored arm
ed investigation first. and consideration
of the subject of recognition of indie
pendence later. The suggested armis-
tice in his opinion would not alter our
course at all. He believed that was a
question which concerned the Cubans
more especially and its significance
would depend on the response, if any of
the insurgents. He thought this coun-
try, in the light of recent events, should
proceed to intervene Immediately.
Senator -Elkins of West Virginia and
Representatives Cannon of Illinois, chair
man of the house appropriations COM
mittee DoIliver of Iowa. a member of
the ways and means committee; Pierce
of Missouri, Lowering of MaSsachus-
etts Faris of Indiana and others, were
closeted with the president.