Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-08

to maintain peace without inpalrlng
the national honor
Several of the papers publish state
ments by Lieutenant General Correo,
Minister of War, apparently authentic,
in which he denies that the govern
ment is threatened with ministerial
crisis. He is represented as saying
that when the dispute with the Uni
ted States entered the acute stage,
one minister at cabinet council ie-
marked: Gentlemen, since, in ac-
cepting this post of honor we must
be--~sunanimous, showing ourselves
ready, if necessary
TO SACRIFICE OUR LIVES,
we are all resolved to stand firll in
this attitude.
"As might be expected" continued
the Minister of War, 'the answer was
unanimous affirmative. Having ex-
amined the Cuban cabinets manifesto,
/ Loyalty informed my colleagues that
could not sanction the expression
Cuban nation in relation to an arm
pecially suspension of hostilities,
which could not be employed without
dishonoring the army unless a petit
ton emanated from the Insurgents.
Senior Moret, desiring TO avoid a con-
1ict, criticised the attitude of myself,
ind other ministers, but our
ARGUMENTS CONVINCED HIM.
"a cable message was Immediately
dispatched to the governor general of
Cuba to the effect that the peninsula
government accepted the manifesto as
an accompli he'd fact, but adhered en-
Eirely TO tie energetic note already
sent. Consequently there has been
nothing to warrant a crisis"
Referring to the possibility of con-
fict with the United States, Gen. Cor
rea is represented as expressing hope
that it may still be averted, because
it is known that President McKinley's
message to the American Congress will
refer neither to independence nor to
intervention"
Gen. Correa added: 'In thus chang
Ing his attitude, President Mckinley
responded doubtless to
SPAIN'S DETERMINED CONDUIT,
and had we not bowed our heads at
the time we suffered our first humili-
alton we should not find ourselves
where we are to-day. | am not of
those who blindly shout victory
should there be rupture and hostili-
ties, but believe that of the two evils
war is preferable to humiliation"
Madrid, April I'll p. m.-The cab
met council terminated at half-past
eight. No official note has been issued
and all the ministers maintain abso-
Lutte reserve, declining to give any in
formation.
U. S. MINISTER WOODFORD
in note sent to the council declared
that when he sent the confidential note
yesterday he had not received a Us
patch from President Mckinley an
nouncing the postponement of the pre-
sentation of the message to Congress,
and ''as that changes tbs aspect of
affairs, he withdraws the statement
made in the previous note"
The outcome of the cabinet council
is that the ministers considered and
replied to a message from Rome deliv-
cred late this evening and transacted
the current business of the different
ministerial departments.
One member of the cabinet informed
the representative of the press that
the aspect of affairs was more pacific
cAdu ySSltTudy.
The evening press is warlike in tone,
but reports no new facts.
La Nacional re-asserts that U. S.
Minister Woodford
SENT AN ULTIMATUM
last evening demanding a reply within
six hours. The paper concludes its
statements by expressing the opinion
That war is only a question of days.
La Correspondence de Espana, in
dependent and semi-offcial, says:
Spain has yielded until there is
nothing but honor left to yield and In
defence of her honor she will go to
war
London, April IA dispatch from
Madrid via Bayonne, France, which
was sent last evening before the cab
met meeting and when apparently
Gen. Woodford, the other diplomats
and the palace fully believed settle
ment of the Cuban crisis had at last
been arrived at and would be accepted
by the cabinet says: This has been
an exciting day in political circles.
The Queen Regent appears to have
gained the day over the bas1icose sec
ton of the cabinet and has agreed to
a settlement which those who have
advised her admit will mean the ulti
mate freedom Of Cuba or a government
satisfactory to the insurgents"
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