The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
NOTICE TO QUIT.
Spain Will Be Told to Leave Cuba and
Must Answer in 4S Hours.

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Spain Will Be Told to Leave Cuba and
Must Answer In 4S Hours.
Washington, April 21.-Spain will
not receive official notice of the de-
mands of the United States before to-
morrow. She will then be Informed
that the Cuban resolution. passed by
congress at an early hour this morning,
is now part of the laws of the United
States, and an ulimatum will be sent in
compliance with this law, and an answer
within very short time, probably 4S
hours, is expected.
Compliance is not expected, and a
forward movement on Cuba will COM
mence the latter part of this week, ac-
cording to the plans of the administra-
ton.
The congressional Cuban resolution
will not be signed until tomorrow. The
ultimatum to Spain will be signed at
the same time. The president decided
to make the two practically one act by
a simultaneous signature of each.
Two cabinet meetings were held dur
| ing the day, the first being at l O'Clock
and lasting nearly two hours, and the
second lasting from until $50 O'Clock.
At their close, announcement that exec
utive action was delayed until tomorrow
was made.
Both cabinet sessions We're devoted
70 discussion IF -,lti-
matum to be sent to Madrid. At the
morning session, the president rather
favored allowing the Madrid govern
ment two, or even three days, in which
to reply to our demands, but since that
time he has changed his views some
what, and it is now believed to be his
purpose to require an answer within a
very short time, probably within "a
hours.
The reason for limiting the time to
one day, or even less, is said to be en-
tirely strategic, otherwise two or even
three days would have been allowed.
The ultimatum itself, it is believed,
is short and to the point. 1t will recite
the main feature of the resolution
passed by congress and demand COM
plance Herewith.
So far as could be learned, there will
not be a meeting of the cabinet this
evening Or tomorrow morning before
the president signs the two documents
which it is believed unuuestionably
will precipitate war. 1t is likely that
the president and Assistant Secretary
Day will tonight 60 over the message
ioh ic OH fr ha tc Mo,1riI nd
make any change which may be thought
desirable, leaving the final act of sign
ing the resolution and the ultimatum
until tomorrow morning. 1t probably
will not be made public until notice is
received that it is in the hands of the
Spanish, diplomatic etiquette requiring
this.
The Cuban resolution, passed by con-
gress, arrived at the White House at
lis o'clock, little over an hour hav-
ing been consumed in the formalities of
securing the signatures of Speaker Reed
and Vice-Presideht Hobart to the reso-
luton in open session and it's delivery
at the White House by Representative
Hager, of Iowa, chairman of the COM
mittee on enrolled bills. and Repre-
sentative Overstreet, of Indiana.
1t was expected that the resolution
would be signed Immediately after it
had reached the president, and this was
President McKinley's inclination; but
for certain state reasons it was deemed
advisable that the resolution and the
ultimatum to Spain should be signed
simultaneously, and time was needed
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form.
Plan of Operation.
The fact that the resolution was not
Immediately signed gave rise to few
disquieting reports, but it soon ap-
peared from statements of cabinet Off
GERS that the president had not the
slightest Intention of withholding his
signature, and that the delay In attach
ing it was accounted for solely by his
desire to prepare a full and complete
plan of operation in the immediate
future, before taking the final step of
turning the joint resolution into a
statute.
AS to the course of events in the i'm
mediate future, the only prediction
that can be made is one based on prec-
edents. According to these, Minister
Woodford will notify the Spanish gov
eminent of the action of the govern
ment of the United States, and should
the Spanish answer be unsatisfactory,
as is expected, the next step would be
for him to ask for his passports and
leave Madrid. That would be followed
instantly by the withdrawal from
Washington of Senior Polo, the Spanish
minister.
At this point it can be said that the
state department officials are confident
that the Spanish government will so
shape every phase of the negotiations
as to oblige US to take the initiative at
every point.
AAfter the withdrawal of the min
listers, and assuming that Spain does
not back down, will follow actual war,
but whether or not the first overt act
would be preceded by a formal declara-
tion of war, which would insure the
immediate naturalization of the powers,
or whether the North Atlantic squadron
will make its appearance off Havana as
beginning, cannot be predicted.
1t is announced that Italian expert
ments on vegetable life with Roentgen
rays have shown that the effect is
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