Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-04-07
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Leading Republicans AMID Denunc,a,t,s
tBeELeve the President.

Leading Republicans AMID Democrats
w wv, 1Bs@eye the President.
'MAsHl SGfoN. April 6.-Notwith-
stanulng The irnlst;e1lc,a and uisa1K,uint :
ment caMsed among this. Eepluyliyr,n,
members OF THE House by the with
'i&sSMTS OF tine Pres identS message TO-
cay THE fiunlk statement of the Presi-
ds'hs TO the leaders and to- several prom
TRENT democrats that such Il course. was
Deemed absoGlMely necessary by Consul
HensiaA Lee to insure the safe departure
oil TN Americans suiM in Cuba, has
caused them TO as5eept the si,tuatitnn III,
good taGuh. Some of the most radical
after hNAah>inG THE sta tenents of t.hos..
who saw the President. appeared salts
hed- These with whom the President
talked came away with q very strong
>nifrssys'Su tllert THE messing would
mean War unless Spain backed down
squareN. One of them who had been
Very active i'm utltslrs'>niZirlig delay SAWS
the message will be perfectly salts
:factory TO fl:un anna WIN fully meet the
Npecualtiou1S of the country. Pending
the transrnttSsul of the message. in view
of tine situation presented by the Pres
iaent. all plans lnVll.ng To action i'm the
House VIM be abandoned. But Those
who ,il'ave been Hal1ins part in the lr,sli-
ca mllV emf emit and who always admit
THE possibility THAT thu time may come
when they will have to part COMPANY
with the President. are. according to
eIslH'n;l than ever To ultimately Obj
:,ain what they desire. They, however.
are an present satisfied with the asrs,lr-
any-es they lrawe received as to THE
c.1'aIac'ter of the message But this has
not 7pieventet them from organizing
Tor ls1s sa;'eAea contingencies The cslnfer-
ence which Was ~ nave been held to
nfe':It after the message was in was
::'1anji'oned. but fifty of tihGrse who
clH gialatly- 1,a'ugurated the movement
net hMme;liate'y aftcr thu House AID
iCsu rn%Ad. to discuss The sltua.ipn Ali
who We're NOT heartily in sympathy
With ',N!em We're invited ~ leave Those
ut 'tt7e meeting un snaun oully agreed
70 WAN upon the message but the
lG'aNt'irk2nl for a caucus St'anTte ed by this
Pres:dsnt's supporters. w'l;fch was also
abandoned during THE afternoon, eX-
posed to them al danger ul"ln which
they havt, not acknowledgements, than
a caucus OF F,eDublscans hight be called
- TJ,ntl them by the party action spyla
place them i'm the posi- tEon OFF lr)lters
" the occsasahn arose for them to adopt
arl independent plan os action. y COM
tlN'ase~a of eight was therefore appointed
10 count hoses, to watch the situation
and tn, devise ways and means to meet
amy tactics of The trpYos4'; ION.
The c4oungnlteee lis as follows: Messrs
Hopkins OF lilin~Hs; Doritner, of Mi
r,l:s: Ta,wneyfi. oF minnesota: Cooper.
r's Wis +onkLT Hepburn, OF Iowa.
E'ronw tgI, OF Ohio: JOY. OF Missouri;
* r1ox, OF Massachusetts.
Several RATHER Vigorous speeches i'm
decentralization OF amy polscs. sof delay
were :naxlh i'm the course of the meet
ing. I'm order to emphasize this position
a pro position was made 10 unite With
the Democrats and block AIN qt4gtIsl ti.Ml.
only adjuurn.u1G from day to day untal
House had acted on tqle Cuban question.
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