Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MEMBERS of congress on the 5th were
said to be receiving scores of tele-
grams for bankers and corporations
appealing to them to sustain the wise
peace policy of the president.
THE Kansas City Live Stock ex-
change, the Builders and Traders ex-
change and the Commercial club sent
kilograms to the Missouri senators and
representatives in congress calling
upon them to support the president in
his endeavors to settle the difficulties
with Spain by the use of diplomatic
methods rather than by arms.
The 5th was prolific of reports of
mediation on the part of European
powers, but the summary on that point
was that they could not agree on the
matter and that their interference
would be unacceptable to the United
States.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY did not send a
message to congress on the 9th as Gen.
Lee informed him he could not get all
the Americans out of Cuba and if the
the message was sent in while they
were in the island he could not an
swer for their lives. Another reason.
also. for holding back the message was
III ASWS AdO OecH TCCtlVco C1dC Cn0
queen regent had taken the Spanish
American trouble into her own hands
and all the demands of President Nc
Kinley were likely to be conceded and
there would be no war.
THE navy department at Washing ton
has received innumerabler requests from
newspapers throughout the country
for permission to have representatives
a h0o r6 "a Shir1S of ho Huir Hy.,,
and the North Atlantic squadron, but
Secretary Long has concluded that it
will be inadvisable.
SINCE the Maine disaster the sailors
in the United States navy have been
anxious for war and the delay at Wash
ington has resulted in round robin
circulated among the enlisted men OF
the North Atlantic squadron. When
the Texas went north from Dry Tor
tugas her sailors brought the protest
along with them. Officials took meas
ures to secure the round robin, but it
had been sent to Washington. The
text of it is that unless decisive action
is soon taken sailors will desert at
every opportunity.
IT was reported at London on the 9TH
that the queen regent of Spain had
again appealed to Queen Victoria di-
rect, asking the latter to exert her in
fiuence to avert war with the United
States and, it was added, ''touchingly
recalling that both Victoria and her.
self are widows and thus deprived OF
advisers"
The ambassadors of France, Ger
many, Russia and Italy at Madrid on
the 18th waited upon Senior Gullon, the
foreign minister, and presented a joint
note in the interests of peace. Senior
GullOn, replying, declared that the
members of the Spanish cabinet were
unanimous in considering that Spain
had reached "the limit of interna-
tional policy in the direction of con-
ceding the demands and allowing the
pretensions of the United States
Gov. HoLCoMB, of Nebraska, sent a
telegram to President Mckinley ten
dering the state militia to the govern
ment.
MARGARET MATHER, the actress, col
lapsed and was carried off the stage at
Charleston, W. Va, and never regained
consciousness. She died of convul-
sions, caused by Bright's disease. She
was born in 1862.
THE London morning paper edito-
rials on the Sth on the Cuban situation
were all pessimistic, at the most only
hoping that the delay would enable
some peaceful influences to work.
The Times could not see how conflict
could be avoided. The Daily News
pointed out that in both America and
Spain it was the people and not the
rulers who desired war. Special dis
patches from the continent to the
London papers likewise recorded the
go 80 - 4
ing a conflict.
WASHINGTON was quiet on the Sth
and there was hardly a ripple to show
that war was near. The cabinet held
its usual session, but there were no
new developments in the Spanish sit
uation to place before it. Prepare
tions for all eventualities were being
hurried to completion in the war and
navy department.
The mem bers of the ways and means
committee of the house are busily en-
gagged with the treasury officials in the
work preliminary to the drafting of a
war revenue measure to be introduced
In congress Immediately upon the
opening of hostilities with Spain. a
bill providing for a temporary loan OF
10000. 900 and a permanent loan OF
from $500. 0o0, 600 to $500, 600, 600 at three
per cent, payable in coin, has also
been prepared and will be immedi-
| ately made in case of war
THERE was rumor at Washington
that the flying squadron was held in
readiness by Commodore Schley to in
tercept the Spanish torpedo fiotilla,
now at Cape De Verde islands, if they
! attempted to continue their voyage tc
| Cuba, as that. under the circumstances,
| would be construed as an act of war
MISCELLANEOUS.
GEORGE Stout. who was knocked out
by Oscar Gardner, the Omaha Kid, >