The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-03-04


ton ln>the spring, when all present and
future wants will be provided for in the
usual way of trade and commerce. In
view of these statements the Secretary
telegraphed to learn if the expedition
could be stopped. Learning it could be,
he ordered it stopped. The supplies will
remain under military guard The
order stops the expedition until the Sec
rotary and the President can finally de-
eide about the matter. General Alger
evidently thinks he has been imposed by
designing persons for selfish ends. The
reindeer that were bought in Norway
are to be turned over to the Interior De
partment.
The course of Representative Handy
OF Delaware in raising point of order
against the item in the Sundry Civil Ap-
preparation bill providing for the repre-
sentation of this country at the Paris
exposition of 1900 is severely con-
delnned, Notwithstanding his lofty state
ment that he raised the point through
patriotic motives. The point was sus-
tanned and the item was stricken out.
1t will be restored in the Senate and it
will be kept in conference. SO that Mr..
Handy will gain nothing by his surly
action. All persons interested in having
this country represented at this exposi-
ton, which promises to be the greatest
ever held in Europe especially those who
contemplate sending exhibitions, should.
petition the Senate to make the appro-
priation. The United States cannot af-
ford to go unrepresented.
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A dispatch from Havana says that the
Didrie del Ejercite, semi-official paper,
states the Spanish Government has noti-
filed this Government that the wreck of
the Maine must not be removed, and
that all work on it must be stopped I'M
til the Spanish Government has received
the full report of the proceedings of the
American Court of inquiry. Secretary
Long and Assistant Secretary Day both
absolutely deny that any such communi-
cation has been received. They say that
the Investigation into the loss of the
Maine and the work of rescue rest Just
where they have ever since this Govern
ment declined to accede to the Spanish
proposal for a joint investigation. This
Government will continue its own in
vestigation in its own way, after which
the Spanish Government will make its
own, this Government extending, as
promised at the time, all the facili-
ties it can to aid the Spanish Govern
ment in its investigation. There has
been no attempt on the part of the Span
ish authorities to interfere with the
work or proceedings of this Government
in its efforts to clear up the mystery Of
the explosion and to rescue the dead, and
no such attempt would be tolerated. 1t
would be instantly resented
1.-The United States has never been en-
gagged in an international complication
so grave as the present one with Spain,
growing out of the destruction of the
Maine, where the President has taken
the people SO completely in his conf
dence as in this instance. All official in
formation that could properly be made
public has been given to them promptly.
Evidently the President has proper re-
gard for the wishes of the people, and an
earnest desire to act in conformity there
with in this matter"
This statement was made by Cushman
X Davis, chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. He is a
conservative man, holding a position of
great delicacy, one which gives him an
intimate knowledge of the present acute
situation. His statement is therefore
both significant and important as indicat-
ing the Presidents attitude in this crisis.
It is essential therefore that the Presi-
dent should know what the real senti-
ments of the people are. 1t is perfectly
safe to assume that the people do not
want war if it can be avoided honorably,
and that If war is necessary to the pre-
servation of the national honor they
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conducted with the utmost vigor. The
idea Of accepting an indemnity in the
shape of money payment, provided the
Court OF Inquiry reports that the Maine
was destroyed by design, is extremely
distasteful to them. 1t would look to
them unpleasantly like taking blood
money. Yet under the operation of in
ternational law it will be necessary, if
the Court reports that the Maine was de-
signedly destroyed, and the Spanish
government is not directly responsible
for it, making it to all intents and pur-
poses an act of war, for this government
to formulate its demand for ueparation,
which, Of course. would Nu ude dis
avowal and indemnity. IF, en, Spain
should refuse to make disavowal or to
pay indemnity there would be no course
left except war. 1t Is not matter that
could be submitted to arbitration; it is
not a matter in which this Government
could accept the friendly offices of any
other government ia mediation. Hot
headed counsellors are urging the Preei-
dent not to submit proposition for in
demnity in the event that the Court of
Inquiry reports that the Maine was de-
stroyed by design. They insist that the
people in that case want this country to
declare war at once. The Iowa and Illi-
nois delegations in the House have been
to him and insisted that he pursue this
course. But it is certain that the Presi-
dent cannot be forced into this course by
the clamor of either self-seeking poll
ticians or yellow journals.
E. W BRADY.
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