The San Francisco call., 1898-04-15

The House resolutions now lie upon the table in the Senate awaiting the dis position outlined. There is no likeli hood of their adoption by the Senate. They will be supported by comparatively few votes.
 Whether the House will accept the Senate resolutions in the manner de scribed IS a question not definitely settled, but there was nsiderable dis cussion among members to-day and willingness expressed to accept the Senate resolution.
 The Senate adjourned soon after 6 o'clock this evening to attend Senator Morrill's birthday party The resolu- tions declaring for intervention in Cuba upon which the momentous issue of war depends were left hanging in the air No agreement of any kind as to the time for taking vote was reached. No -tice was given by Senator Davis chair man of the Committee on Foreign Re lations, that the session which begins at 10 o'clock tomorrow shall be con tinuous until vote is taken.
 Under ordinary circumstances 1t would be easy to predict that vote will be reached at late hour tomorrow night, and even now there is a stron0 probability that this may be the result.
 At the same time it must not be forgotten that half a dozen Senators are determined to delay final action to the last moment, and Senator Wellington of Maryland, whose pro- Spanish views are extreme, loudly, and even frantically, exclaimed in the Senate just before adjournment tonight that no vote should be taken at any time with his consent.
 It is probable that when the list of speakers, which is quite long, has been exhausted, the vote will be taken, and that no Senator will undertake the re- sponsibility of beginninp filibustering tactics. There are now more than twenty Senators scheduled for speeches. including Senators Cullom. Daniel. Frye, Tillman, Wolcott, Spooner, Chil- ton, Platt of Connecticut Cannon. Pet tigrew, Proctor, Burrows, Bacon. Vel lington, Stewart, Gallery, Hawley, White and Rawins.
 Some of the Senators, however, will be content with ten minutes talk. merely for the purpose of defining their position, and fully half of them will forego the pleasure of hearing their voices, if by this self-denial the vote can be sooner reached.
 At late hour tomorrow night, therefore, if the present tacit under standing be not disarranged, the vote will be taken. If 1t is delayed 1t will be because the statement from Spain that the Cortes have been summoned to meet in extra session next Wednesday offers to the conservatives another hope of possible action on the part of Spain in the direction of further propositions.
 Rumors were current to-day of nego- tiations between Gomez and the Span ish Government for the purchase of the island, and the conservatives are unani- mously of the opinion that if the Cubans and the Spanish can come to an agree ment the administration will be able to settle the Maine matter on the basis of arbitration, as suggested by Spain, and thus all cause of friction will be re- moved There is no doubt that every effort will be made by the conservatives tomorrow to prevent vote. They sue ceeded to-day in preventing an agree ment, and they may be equally success ful tomorrow.
 When the vote is finally taken, however, it will result in the adop- tion of the Senate resolutions un- changed. This is the present out look.