The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-09

tween the United States and Great
Britain. and reciprocates the action of
the United States in affording protec-
ton TO British subjects on another oc-
casion.
SIGNIFICANT ABSENCE.
The Spanish minister at Washington
has received no instructions as to his
departure, nor has he made prepare
tions to go, although his establishment
is in such a condition that he could
leave within a few hours after receiv-
ing orders from his government to de-
part. AS an evidence Of the complete
cessation Of negotiations, it can be
cited that today closed the seventh
consecutive day since the Spanish min
lister called at the state department.
WAR PREPARATIONS.
War and naval preparations are pro-
ceeding systematically. but the larger
details of the preparations have been
shaped and there is little more to do
than see these regularly executed.
While there are many naval move
mentS there has not yet been any de-
cisive order affecting the movement of
the fleets. All is in a state of eXpec-
fancy in this regard. A report was
current today that the Spanish fleet of
cruisers had sailed from Cadiz for
American waters. There was no con-
legation or at the navy department,
though it would not be improbable, as
the press dispatches from Madrid last
night stated that this formidable fleet
was expected to sail today.
UNANIMITY DESIRED.
At the capitol senator's who are de-
voting themselves to the task of Sc
curing a resolution on the Cuban ques-
ton on which practical unanimity on
the part of the senate can be obtained,
were quite active, and when the day
| closed they had made appreciable prog
] ress. There was a joint meeting of
! the leading members of the steering
committees of the various parties dur
ing the day in the rooms of the COM
mittee on appropriations, on which the
/ whole situation was canVaSSed, and the
reasons for prompt action in the senate
/ after the matter is once taken up and
! gone over, much as they had been in
/ preceding meetings. The managers of
! this movement are endeavoring to Sc
cure a reversal of the decision of the
committee on foreign relations to re-
/ port for both independence and inter
vention, but they do not count upon a
majority of the committee, though they
assert that they have made Roadway.
CAN'T WIN THESE.
] lHeN IetOSIllZe the ldCb lHdl even
with the majority of the committee
| their way, there viii still remain sew
/ eral senators. including Thurston, Pet
tigrew, Gallinger and Mason. whom it
will be very difficult to win over to
any line of action that does not provide
/ for the recognition of the present Gu
/ ban government, and who will insist
upon debating a contrary policy. They
are finding fewer obstacles to progress
among Democrats. POpulists and silver
! Republicans, than among straight Re
! publicans-
J The movement to consider the whole
] Cuban question in executive session is
( gaining ground. The senators who have
! looked up the presidents find the only
parallel case to the present to be that
! when war was declared against Great
| Britain in 1912, the declaration was con-
sidered in secret session.
WON A MAJORITY.
Tonight the conservative senators
who are opposed TO any recognition of
the present Cuban government, claim
| that a majority of the committee on
/ foreign relations will now support this
position, contenting themselves with a
/ general declaration for the freedom and
/ Independence of the island, coupled
with a proposition for Intervention in
! the present war between Spain and
! Cuba. They count upon getting the
votes of six of the eleven members of
! the committee, and say this number
! 1.a