The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-06
NEW
LOOP
HOLE.
Now 1t 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
president will go to congress to-day,
and if it goes in at all it will be quite
late in the day. There is as yet no rea-
son to be learned for this change of
purpose, but there has developed an
extreme hostility in congress among
Republicans to what some of them have
understood and believe to be the presi-
dents purpose. They oppose interven-
tion at discretion of the president, and
also insist on recognition of Cuban in
dependence. The president sent for
Senators Lodge, Frye and Davis and
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 and 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 and he
can not get himself and other Ameri-
cans out of Cuba in the time specified
which is 1 o'clock to-day. The president
it is known has been greatly concerned
about Lees safety and that of other
Americans, and it is stated that the
message will not go in before 5 or 6
raIr IrfaI- l.a 1,1.11
morrow.
LATER.-After the senate galleries
had been cleared for the executive ses-
sion to-day Senator Davis explained the
reason for the delay in sending the
message. He said it was due to the
fact that there had been some delay in
getting Consul General Lee and other
Americans out of Havana, and that
more time was absolutely necessary for
this purpose, hence the president did
not consider it wise or humane to send
in the message which might precipitate
serious trouble and endanger the lives
of these people.
The latest statement is that there will
be no message until Monday in order to
let Gen. Lee and other Americans get
out of Cuba safely
Many alarming rumorS were af1oat
this afternoon regarding the safety of
Consul General Lee and the other con-
sular officers stationed in Cuba, some
even going to the extent of declaring
that some of them had been attacked
by mobs. The officials of the state de-
partment attach no Importance to these
rurnors.
Assistant Secretary Day said in reply
to an inquiry regarding the safety of
Gen. Lee, that it was more than prob
able that he would leave Havana dur
ing the afternoon and that every per-
caution 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
reason for the request a 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 it
was made the senate returned to its
legislative work
At the White House the definite