Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-24
WILL ADVISE CONGRESS THUS.
Send Supplies 10 the Starving, and Distribute
Them. Whether Spain Likes it M Not.
SPANS TALK OF COMPLEMENTARY.



New York, March ga special to
the Herald from Washington says:
President Mckinley has given utter
ance to his opinion on the presnt in
ternatiOnal difficulties. Your cores
pendent is informed that the President
gave Senator Bacon and others with
whom he conferred the Impression
mat 1t is his purpose to follow up the
submission OF the Maine report to Com
gress with a message advising that the
government supplement the work of
feeding the STRIVING in Cuba now being
done through the Red Cross and other
agencies with supplies furnished from
private means.
His ideu Is to recommend vigorous
and prompt action on this line, the gov
eminent sending supplies In the ships
If the navy or under naval escort, and
seeing that they are landed and dlstrib-
uted, whether the Spanish government
objects or not. If, as had been inti-
mated from Madrid. Spain CONSTITUTES
{ this aid to the starved as armed in
of war on her part, she will have to COM
! NIT the overt act. This VIII put her in
the position OF declaring to the world
that she will not permit an outside
agency to feed those whom she is
starving to death under her peculiar
methods of warfare and the worlds
sympathy will be with us.
SPAIN COUNTING UNMATCHED
CHICKENS.
New York, March 24.--A dispatch to
the World from Havana says
1t is most probableS Iadeed. II Is al
most certain, that if the United States
government claims indemnity for the
| loss of the Maine, Spain will put in a
counter claim for hundreds of millions
of dollars for damages through filibus-
tering expeditions fitted out in America
and permitted to sail from American
ports.
one of the highest Spanish officials
in Cuba stated that Spain's answer 70
an American demand for Maine indem-
nifty would surely be as Indicated. He
reluctantly admitted that blank re-
fusal to pay for the battleship would
not be backed by Europe, but he
seemed assured of the fact that should
Spain offer to pay promptly. say my
millions for the Maine, II the United
States would pay SiOGuOO,OOO for Span
ish losses through Cubans filibus-
tering, Austria and France would at
least endeavor to make them their own
affairs and thus to give to Spain the
thing she has been camoring for for
the last three years and the only thing
she has gained-time
Should Spanish indemnity for the
Maine d.. aster become a question for
an international board and should its
decision be the deciding point of
American Intervention, either America
will have to feed Cuba a whole year
more or the Cuban race Will become
practically extinct For delay after
delay will surely consume that much
time.
If the Cubans are to live the United
States will have spent by that time as
much for, their food as the cost of the
Maine. If they are to die the quicker
their misery Ia ended, the better. AL
though hundreds of tons of food have
now been distributed to starving Gu
bans and the bishop of Havana blesses
America for its saving Christian use.
the Spanish government in Cuba still
denies that there is misery in Cuba.
NURSES FOR CUBA.
A corps of Salvation Army nurses
will leave for cuba in a few days,
They are Staff Captain Crost. Ensign
Selma Errick, Cadet Mary Carbon and
Captain Joyce. All are trained and
capable nurses who are accustomed to
the southern latitudes.
ABSURD TALK OF INSULTS.
The Tribune prints the following in
terview with Senior Suarez, of the
Spanish consulate of this city:
I'VE do not believe that there will
be an actual war between Spain and
the United States, but II such a thing
should happen. II would be because
the United States has insulted Spain.
You have in this country given
home to those men who are traitors to
Spain and have waged war against
her. Even in this city the headquar-
tiers of the Cuban Junta are located
and from these headquarters all the
plans of the campaign in Cuba against
Spain are prepared and supplies for
the rebels are arranged for and this
is done within two blocks of our con-
sulate. The United States and Spain
are friendly nations and therefore to
say the least. II is surprising that the
rebels in Cuba should be allowed to
arrange their plans Of campaign in
this country. l say again that / do
not believe that actual war will come
between the two countries, but II IT
does come, It will be from the fact
that Spain has taken all the insults
she could stand and Will take no