The herald., 1898-03-18

Department and will be introduced In
the House by Representative Hull
chairman Of the House Committee or
Military Affairs, who, 1t Is expected
will urge 1t vigorously, inasmuch as II
Is an administration measure. Tha
basis Of the bill will be the, well knowr
three battalion organization. That Is
the ideal peace status of the army. but
provision is made for the exercise by
the President of full power to increase
each one of the existing companies
from 75 men, the present strength, to
250 men.
| MOVEMENT OF MARINES
NEW YORK, March ia detachment
Of thirty-three marines was hurriedly
sent away early today from the Marine
Barracks at the New York Navy Yard
They will Join the cruiser Newark, al
League Island Navy Yard. detail OF
twenty-five blue Jackets for the Rich.
mond also at League Island. was taker
to Jersey City on tug. 1t was an
nounced at the Marine Barracks today
that an order for the immediate enlist
ment Of 473 men had been received from
Washington.
WHAT BRITAIN WOULD DO
NEW YORK, March 17.-Great prom
inence is given in the English press to
reports of o-British demonstrations
| in New York places of amusements, says
| the Worlds London correspondent,
These accounts undoubtedly have STIR
red public feeling here strongly. But
a representative Tory newspaper, the
| Globe, sneers thus: "Of course the
trouble with Spain, which has a navy,
has nothing to do with this sudden love
for England"
AS the suggestion for a rapproche-
ment first came from this side, that
comment is gratuitous.
Sidney Lowe, one Of Englands S ablest
journalists. and recently editor Of the
st. James Gazette, but now on the staff
of the Standard sends from the United
States powerful plea for American in
tervention. He says:
what would England's actions have
been IL an Armenia were in the English
channel? There is only one answer-We
should not have endured 1t.
1.-THE Spanish would have been cleared
out, bag and baggage from Cuba long
ago, with reluctance perfectly genuine,
Will CLlPAdtIC PA VI ulSluLeF-
estedness which we should have meant,
though nobody would have believed US.
1--WE should have blockaded the island
bombarded Havana as we did Alex
andria, and occupied Cuba as we are
now occupying Egypt to the bubbling
Indignation and resentment Of foreign
nations and estimable benefit of the in
habitants. Some Lord Cromer or Sir
Herbert Kitchner would have taught the
islanders what law, order and honest
finance mean. and some tens of thou
sands Of miserable pacificos and wretch
ed Spanish conscripts would not have
died of starvation, or been butchered or
murdered.
"It would have been an unwelcome
task for us, but 1t would have been
undertaken and accomplished If the
shores Of Great Britain instead Of those
of the United States hedged the blue
waters in the Mexican gulf"
PULLING FOR PEACE
NEW YORK, March 17..-A dispatch
to the Tribune from London says: The
negotiations for the purchase Of war
ships Is still in progress, the Spanish
agents having money at their disposal
in London. The only vessel which they
are believed to have purchased is Nc
Calmont's large steam yacht, now in the
Mediterranean sea. Spain would have
secured the Amazonas and Admiral
Abrouall a week ago il the vote Of $780,
100000 had not been passed.
p, Lieutenant Colwell had previously en-
tered a bid for them. The Spanish
agents made determined effort to Sc
cure them but failed. Brazil at first
sought to sell four ships, including the
two coast defense vessels building in
France, which are only half finished,
but finally consented to deliver the
Amazonas. provided her sister ship at
was included in the con-
tract. These negotiations were con-
Quoted by Mr. Henry White and the
Brazilian Minister, with assistance from
the naval attaches of each government
In addition, the O'Higgins is now the
object Of keen bargaining, and there is
at least one fine cruiser in a continental
port which is likely to be purchased.
Notwithstanding these warlike pre-
parations, the general feeling among
the American and English bankers here
is that war between Spain and the
United States will be averted. All the
conservatives on the street consider an
outbreak of hostilities improbable. The
stock list today reflects this feeling.
The Rothschild influence is reported
to be strongly exerted in Paris and Mad
rid in the interest of peaceful settle
ment between the two countries.
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