The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-06
NEW
LOOP
HOLE.
Now It is Said the Presidents
Message Will Not
BE Issued Until MOnday-Post-
pOnement of Five Days.
STATEMENT is MADE
That Time Must Be Given to
Get Lee
Safely Out of Havana With
Other Americans.
REAL CAUSE OF DELAY
Said to Be the Hostility of Con-
greSSmen
To Alleged Weak Character Of
the Message
Which Advocates Intervention
at Presidents Discretion,
Which Advocates Intervention
at Presidents Discretion,
AND SAYS NOTHING
About Recognizing the Inde-
pendence of Cuba.

Washington, April 6.-It is now very
doubtful whether the message of the
president will go to congress to-day.
and if it goes in at all it will be quire
late in the cay. There is as yet no rea-
son to - learned for this ch enge 81
purpose. but there has developed an
sesae hestilly 10 copg. IS among
.assss q what sotae -afssisey-s ssa+e
understood .azsa Ss. = the psseiz
sessxEss pls1poa FREY upDoss ineel
tion at discr iee a pre aat s.na
also insist on recognition Of e.sss,--4s i1i-
dependence. The president set-S for
Senators Lodge, Frye and 4Itav4s an4
also for Representatives Cannon, Ding
ley and Adams. After they came out
from the white house they refused to
say a word regarding their conference
but on arrival of Senator Davis at the
capitol he saw his colleagues on the
foreign relations committee and in
formed one of them that no message
would be sent in to-day. Senator Davis
Immediately moved ana obtained an ex-
ecutive session.
1t is reported that Consul General Lee
has notified the state department to de-
lay action in order that he may get
Americans out of Cuba in safety 1t IS
said that he has had great difficulty in
securing sufficient boats to carry all
Americans desiring to leave ana ne
can not get himself and other Amerl-
cans out of Cuba in the time speclneo,
which is 1 O'Clock to-day. The presidenI
it is known has been greatly concerned
about Lees safety and that or otner
Americans, and it is stated that the
message will not go in before or
O'Clock, and may be held up until TO-
morrow.
IATER.-After the senate galleries
had been cleared for the executive ses-
oxri-
reason for the delay in sending tne
message. He said it was due TO the
fact that there had been some delay IN
getting Consul General Lee ana otHef
Anericans out of Havana, and that
more time was absolutely necessary for
this purpose, hence the president al9
not consider it wise or humane 70 seno
in the message which might precipltate
serious trouble and endanger the lives
of these people. -,
The latest statement is that there will
he no message until Monday in order TO
let Gen Lee and other Americans get
out of Cuba safely.
Many alarming rumorS were aHoas
this afternoon regarding the sa1ety OF
Consul General Lee and the other con-
s,1lar officers stationed in Cuba, some
even going to the extent OF declaring
that some of them had been attacked
nv mobs The officials OF the state de-
Dartment attach no Importance to these
assistant Secretary Day said III reply
fn
cen Lee. that it was more than prob
able that he would leave Havana dur
ing the afternoon and that every per
canton had been taken for the safety
of all the other consular officers and
citizens of the United States through
out Cuba.
Mr. Davis stated that the president
had sent for him for the special purpose
of asking this delay and had shown as
a reason for the request telegram
from Consul General Lee saying that
if the message should be sent in before
Monday he would not be responsible
for the lives of the Americans in CUBA
No comment whatever was made on the
senator's communication and after IL
was made the senate returned TO It's
legislative work.
At the White House the definite
statement was authorized that the
message would not go in today
washington, April ct can be sta~
ted authoritative1y that after CONFER
ences with members of the foreign ar
fairs committees of both houses the
president has decided not to Seno IN ms
message till Monday next.