The San Francisco call., 1898-03-31
V AITINC UPON THE PRESIDENT Republican Congressme en Agree to Give Him
 Until Monday. There Has Been Definite Understanding Reached
 All Around. The End of It All Will Be the Freedom of tho Suffering
 CubanS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, March 2o.-The Re publicans of the House who are ag- gressively in favor of prompt and ener- getic action in the Cuban matter and who met last night in conference held another meeting after the House ad- journed tonight. At last nights meet ing forty-siX members were present. Tonight they were re-enforced by sixty nine, making total of 115. This con- stitutes considerably more than ma jority of the Republicans of the House and the members present tonight said that 1t by no means represents the full strength of those who will be satisfied with nothing short of complete inde- pendence of Cuba. Many of the radi- calls favor armed intervention, and a few, like Representative March of Illi- nois, believe the blowing up of the Maine is caSuS belli.
 The speeches at to-night's meeting, while vigorous and yielding nothing, were nevertheless in favor of giving the President an opportunity to mature his policy and of completing the nego- tiationS in which he is now engaged Many of the leaders in the movement, including MT. Hopkins of Illinois, GIr. Hull of Iowa, MT. TaWney of Minnesota, MT. Cromwell of Ohio, MT. Hepburn of Iowa and w. A. Smith of Michigan, saw the President to-day and all he asked was brief delay. Action uy Con- greSs before the pending negotiations are completed, he told them, would eni- barrass him and might result m a ccm- plete rupture.
 MT. Hull and MT. Cromwell and oth- CTS explained the situation to the con- ference. They counseled acquiescence in the Presidents desires. A rupture With the administration was greatly to be deplored and should, they argued, only occur as a last resort. They in- formed the conference that the Presi- dent had said that the negotiations now in progress would either fail or be successful by the end of the week He believed they would be successful. He did not indicate their nature, they said, and they pointed out that it would be manifestly ruinous for the details to be made public at this time. They said further that the President informed them that he would, in the event of the failure of the negotiations. place the whole subject before Congress and share with it the responsibility for what might follow.
 Adams Of Pennsylvania, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Commit tee in the absence of Hitt explained that the sentiment of the committee
 
 though he himself was a conservative.
 But he said the committee were will ing to defer to the wishes of the Presi- dent and no action would be taken at the meeting tomorrow. On Monday, however, if a solution had not been pre- viously reached, action would be had. All the members present professed ignorance of the details of the Presi- dents plans and negotiations, although several said the President assured them that if successful they would, he thought, be satisfied.
 While these different reports were made to the conference, they were un- official. and the conference decided at last to appoint a committee of eleven to wait upon the President tomorrow and explain their views of the situa- tion, the committee to report at a meeting to be held tomorrow night.
 The committee appointed consisted of the following: Messrs Hopkins and Lorimer of Illinois. Joy of Missouri. Sulloway of New Hampshire, Cooper of Wisconsin, Arnold of Pennsylvania, Mercer of Nebraska, Knox of Massa- chusetts. Paris of Indiana, Hager of Iowa and Smith of Michigan.