The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-09
Congress Holds Back Till Monday at
the Urgent Request Of Gen. Lee.
QUEEN REGENT is GETTING SCARED
No More Foolishness-No More Delay-Free
Cuba is in Sight-The Maine Ques-
ton Can Be Settled Later.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April THE
is no longer any doubt as 10 the pu
poses of this government with respe
to the situation in Cuba. War, in ii
opinion of the administration, is Inevi
able, except IN the unlocked for eve
of a surrender on the part of SpaiI
ANY movement to avert war must no
come from Madrid aud must conced
American demands, including an en-
to Spain's dominion in Cuba.
Three features stand out plainly il
the developments of today. AT moo
the six great powers of Europe
through their representatives here
called at the White house and pre-
scented to President Mckinley a join
note expressing urgent hope for
peaceful adjustment between the Unite'
States and Spain, to which the presi
dent replied with uDmistakabIe plain
ness as to the duty and unselfish en-
deavors of this government to terminal
the insufferable conditions in Cuba.
Another, and probably the most sig
nificant actual step, showing tn
linality reached by the United States
government, was the authoritative
statement that Consul General Lei
would leave Havana on Saturday. Thi.
step, it Is known, will be regarded by
| Spain as akin to an overt act preceding
war, as il will terminate the medium o
official intercourse between the United
States and the island.
CONGRESS AROUSED.
President Mckinley and his policy Of
armed Intervention, designed appar'
emily in the interests of the bond syndi-
cate, will suffer defeat in congress
and if his excellency does not imme.
diately alter the language and recon-
mendatIons of his message he will be
completely overcome and dIsgraced.
The committee on foreign affairs OF
the senate and house took the Cuban
question IN their own hands today, and
as n result Consul General Lee has
been cabled to come TO Washington at
once. He has replied that he will
leave Saturday. The purpose of his
sudden summons is that he may give
congress the information the president
has persisted in Withholding.
To find the cause of this sudden and
extraordinary turn in the situation one
not have to dig very deep. Con-
gress was angered to its very depths
when 1t assembled at noon by a mass
of circumstantial evidence that had
accumulated against the administration
over night, almost convicting McKln-
ley of having played into the hands of
the base and INSCRIPTIONS ring that
has been influencing his course since
the blowing up of the Maine.
CRISIS MADE TO ORDER.
Word that the queen regent might
Weld in the face of wal was sent to
and he had a strong inclina-
ton to wait a few days and see If a
peaceful solution would not eventually
be reached, but he had promised con-
gress that his message would be sub
without fail, and he could not
see his way clear to postpone it. 1t
then occurred to him to question lem
eral Lee as to the situation in Havana
and see how long it would take for the
Americans TO leave.
In response to an innocent question,
Lee cabled that there were probably
600 Americans there, and that they
not all get out before Sunday;
that the volunteer army was armed and
ugly, and they would doubtless attack
Americans if war was declared by the
States.
This was McKInley's cue, and he
made a theatrical play that tricked
into laying down without a
but no ooner had this been
accomplished than 1t was learned from
rue sources that Wall street had posi-
tive knowledge that there would be no
two hours before congress was
made aware of it, and, accounting for
The difference in time, the news was
to London at the same instant,
there as early as nine O'Clock
the morning.
Testimony Of this sort, which is
.remcly damaging, is plling up against
Mckinley. He is being alluded to rs
in the hands of a gang of market
and he is being indicted on
he public streets of the national capt.
al of completely in n game to sell ont
Americas honor and the freedom of
Cuba TO a clique of constituencies
characters, who hope to makea profit
1ut of bonds Cuba shall issue to buy a
IctuOul uOllCSllJ hOh WIN luO o"Olu
md gun. A furious congress is digest
ng this accumulation of evidence, and
he result may be disastrous to the
plans of the white house.
The close friends of the president
made fortunes in Wall street yesterday,
and have been reaping a golden harvest
the people and their representa-
ives in congress have been expecting
.nomentarily the recognition of Cuba's
Independence, armed Intervention and
he GGndign punishment of Spain for
he cowardly and inhpman murder of
,6S officers and marines.
MADRID, April 6.-The develop
Hents VI interest in the situation today
re confined to the important part the
queen regent is taking in the crisis.
She has practically taken matters out
f the hands of her ministers and Is
direct with the United States
ninisler, General Woodford, through