Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-04-07
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THE AMERICANS IN HAVANA IN
DANGER.
Consul General Lee Cables that to Declare Our
Position r1eant Trouble to Those on the IsIand-
Will Take Until Sunday Next to Send all to a
Place of Safety--The Hessage VIII Probably
Go in on Honday Next.

The war excitement seems to
have been quieted by report that
the Queen Regent of Spain has
dismissed her Cabinet and opened
negotiations direct with Minister
Woodford, conceding to this coun-
try every demand. Up to the hour
of going to press, 11:OO a. m., we
give the latest telegraph news in
this column. So many reports are
flying thick and fast.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Swift as
cannon's flash changed the
Cuban situation to-day. The gal
leries of Congress were crowded.
Senators and Representatives were
anxious and agitated, even the
diplomatic corps was in a ferment,
awaiting a message from the Presi-
dent of the United States to the
Congress of the American people
that might mean war, when, with
excitement at the very highest, an
electric flash, the word passed that
there would be no message to-day.
It's suddenness stunned the public
which heard the news in distorted
forms, and amazed veteran mem
bers of Congress. Ultimately, it
became known that not only would
there be no message to-day, but no
message this week, and that it was
at least possible the message written
and approved might never go to
Congress at all.
THE REASONS FOR DELAY.
The first reason for the delay
was that the administration re-
ceived advices from General Lee,
at Havana, indicating that all
Americans could not be gotten off
the island to-day and would be in
grave peril if the message preceded
their departure. The second reason
and perhaps equally potent with
the others, slowly drifted into pub
lie comprehension late in the day,
chiefly through the medium of
published Associated Press des-
patches from Madrid, for extreme
reticence was maintained on the
subject by the few in Washing
ton who knew the facts-and even
Cabinet officers were unadvised on
the subject.
SPAIN IS WEAKENING.
This important news was that
the Spanish government, after
what plainly had been most ex-
citing times in inner Spanish cir
eles at Madrid, has decided to re-
open the case closed, so far as this
government was concerned, by the
refusal of Spain to make salts
factory response to the representa-
tions made by the United States
last week, and in order to avert
impending war had decided to
make concessions heretofore re-
fused.
What will be the final outcome,
it is too early to say, but the as
pect of affairs is considerably more
pacific and sufficient to renew the
hope of the President in a solution
OF the Cuban question satisfactory
to the American people and achiev-
ed without bloodshed. The details
seem to be worked out, but it is ex-
| pected that between now and Mon
day, a clearer light will be thrown
on the future by action at Madrid,
of which one important feature at
least is the declaring of an armis-
tice by the Queen Regent OF Spain.
! This armistice, it is said, will
lead to ultimate in dependence Of
Cuba, from Spanish rule, but by
what intermediate steps perhaps
even the governing powers do not
at this time know. Much it is sup
posed, will depend upon the Cuban
insurgents and the people Of two
countries, of the United States an(
Spain.