The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24

the committee and with the leaders ot the Appropriations Committee ot the House leave little doubt that the amend ment will be agreed to both by the Sen ate and the House and the money will be placed at the disposal of the Presl- dent. Whether this action will be taken before the President sends in his mes sage to Congress transmlttin0 the Cuban correspondence will depend upon the rapidity with which the Approprla- rions Committee progresses with the sundry civil bill. It is the intention of the committee to report that bill to the Senate as soon as 1t IS ready, and 1t will probably be considered without delay
 The correspondence which the Presi- dent will transmit to Congress will, l am informed, include not only reports from Consul-General Lee and other United States Consus in Cuba, but also the correspondence which has passed between the United States and Spain up to the present time It IS possible that by the time the President trans rnits 1t he may have a note from Spa1n explaining the course that is proposed to be pursued in the event ot the failure of the approaching elections in Cuba to show hope for the success of autonomy.
 I learn from an authoritative source that 1t is not the present intention of President Mckinley to recommend for cible intervention He will lay the whole matter before Congress, and ii Congress finds in the correspondence with Spain and the reports of the Con suls ground for forcible intervention such a step can then be taken with its full sanction
 By the course which he is pursuing the President gains time, and every day gained he considers important for two reasons-it increases the chance of reaching peaceable solution of all the difficulties and 1t places the United States in a better position to meet war if 1t comes. If matters can be carried along until the rainy season sets in, and at the same time the suffering i'll Cuba can be stopped by relief sent by the United States, the administration will endeavor to avoid anything like for cible intervention until the fall, as 1t realizes that the mortality among Amer ican troops sent to Cuba during the rainy season would be very high, and by the time the rainy season is over and cooler weather comes the United States can be in a state of preparation for war which would make the conflict in all probability short and decisive
 Can Congress be restrained from taking a decisive step in the near future that will make the carrying out of the programme of delay until fall impossi- ble? is a question which will only be answered when the Senate and the House have been put in possession Of all the information in the hands of the President There is much impatience among members of both houses and of all parties at the suggestions of delay. It is believed that If the policy of feed ing the starving in Cuba is continued much of the food and medicine sent there will find its way, directly or in directly, into the commissariat of the Spanish army, and there is disposition on the part of some of the more impa- tient men in Congress to insist that Spain shall be expelled from Cuba as precedent to feeding the starving vic tins of the policy of Weyler.
 A wave of popular resentment follow ing the publication of the Maine report and the Cuban correspondence might influence Congress to take immediate action for intervention by force to ex- pei Spain from Cuba, and 1t IS this pos sibility which is causing some uneasi- ness to the President and others who realize that the appropriation of $5o,- 900 900 for national defense has not