The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-11
ARMISTICE IN CUBA.
Spanish Government Is Earnestly
Considering the Subject.
PRESSURE OF THE GREAT POWERS.

They Hope to Aver War by Having Spain
Declare AN Armistice-No Truth In the
Report That the Fern Had Been Blown
Up In Havana Harbor--spanish FiotilIa
still at Cape Verde Consul at Porto
Rico In Danger.
Washington. April lit is learned
at one of the foreign embassies that
the Spanish government has under very
earnest consideration the issuance of a
proclamation declaring an armistice in
Cuba. This decree has not yet been
signed so far as is known here. nor
does the information indicate that a
hnal determination that it shall issue
has been reached as yet. The meas
ure, however, is being strongly pressed
upon the consideration of Spain by some
of the continental powers which have
acquainted their embassies with the
fact. 1t is the hope of the powers urg-
ing this move that by means of this
concession war might be averted. al
though 1t is realized that the United
States may not regard the concession
as adequate to meet the case.
What Spain VIII Not DO.
The Spanish government, it is said,
holds to the position that 1t will yield
everything to avert war save two
neutrality-suspicious. of Cuba and
American Intervention. 1t insists that
If either Of these latter moves are in
sisted upon by the United States as a
sine qua non and are carried into ef-
feet 1t will regard them as overt acts
aid as placing the United States in
the attitude of taking the first step
toward war. 1t Is because of Spain's
refusal to yield on either the interven-
tion or independence propositions that
the armistice proposal is not regarded
as assuring a change in the present
outlook.
The Fern Not Blown Up.
Navy department officials ridicule
and discredit the widely circulated ru-
mors that the Fern has been blown
up. Lieutenant Whittlesey, who would
be the first to know of the receipt of
any such news by the navy department,
said that he had not heard of any trou-
BILE at Havana and that while the Fern
was at Havana he did not credit any
other part of the story.
\ Secretary Sherman at 2:45 o'clock in
the afternoon had not received word
from Consul General Lee that he had
left Havana. The secretary states, how
ever, that he expected to hear at any
time that the consul general had taken
his departure, in pursuance to orders
Foreign Relations Committee.
There was no meeting of the senate
committee on foreign relations. the
Aox aAi ~
last meeting till Monday. Several of the
members of the committee were at the
Capitol. however, and they casually
dropped into the committee room,
where the Cuban situation was the up
permost topic. There no longer appears
to be doubt that the committee will
change it's verdict on the method of
Cuban independence, so as
not to include the present government
Of the insurgents and to practically
make the declaration one for interven-
ton only If the president represents the
necessity for thus limiting the official
action of the country.
Will Yield to Senators.
The movement to secure general COM
piiance with the presidents wishes In
this respect has gained rapidly until X
includes apparently most OF the oldest
senator's, and II is believed that the
committee on foreign relations will
yield to the representations of these
senator's. The members of the commit
tee who are now expected to support
the president are Messrs. Frye. Cullom,
Hodge, Clark, Gray and Daniel and
some claim that Chairman Davis will
take this position. Mr.. Davis declined
to say what might be the action of the
or to in any way discuss the
of its action. He expressed
the opinion that the senate would not
consider the subject in executive ses-
sion.
Consuis Permitted to Leave Spain.
Permission has been given by the
state department to the United States
consuls in Spain to leave that country
4 they so desire, pending the threatened
severance of all diplomatic relations
between Spain and this country. They
have not been ordered to leave, as such
a step Is not resorted to except in the
case Of a rupture between the two gov
but they are permitted to ex-
ercise their own discretion in the mat
ter. The effects Of the consulates, such
for instance. as unimportant papers and
furniture, will be turned over to the
of some friendly gov
ernment.
FLOTILLA AT CAPE VERDE.
Captain viliamil's Torpedo Boats Take on