The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-31
KAUTz WILL BE SUSTAINED.
OFFICIALS SAY HE ACTED WITHIN
HIS INSTRUCTIONS.

believed He Concluded After n Con-
suItatiOn With Capt. sturdee, That
state of Anarchy Existed-OnIy
One Telegram From Him and
That Does Not Mention the Bonn
bardment-His Former Dispatch
Not Made Public.
Washington, March 3O.-The serious con-
diton of affairs in Samoa engaged the
attention of officials throughout the day,
and there were conferences at the White
House between the President and Secre-
tary Hay, and at the state department
between the secretary and the British am
bassador and Baron .Speck Won Sternberg,
first secretary of the German embassy.
But out of it all not a word of additional
information was contributed from any OFF,
cial source. The only authoritative state
ment came from the navy department,
giving a brief dispatch from Admiral
Kautz.
This threw no light on the latest out
break, and owing to tangle of dates it
served only TO further involve the official
mystery. In view of the fact that the
fighting was widely spread and long con-
tinued, and that the foreign Offices at
London and Berlin had been officially adj
vised of the affair, it was regarded as
somewhat strange that the state and navy
departments should be entirely without
information on a bombardment by an
American admiral.
Up to the close of office hours 1t was
stated that nothing had come from any
of our representatives. in Samoa dealing
with the outbreak of hostilities. The calls
of Sir Julian Pauncefote and Baron Stern
berg were mainly for information, for at
neither of the embassies had there been
report of the occurrence or instructions
up to the time of the calls.
Within His Instructions.
Admiral Kautz acted within his instruc-
tons. 1t is believed that he concluded aft
er a consultation with Capt Sturdee of the
Porpoise, the senior British naval officer,
and the United States and British consuls,
that a state of anarchy existed which call
ed for action. The fact that the edicts of
the chief justice were dsregarded and were
ignored, although sustained by the repre-
sentatives of two of the governments,
made such a course imperative.
There is no doubt, with the facts now at
hand, that Admiral Kautz win be sustain
ed by the United States government.
The dispatch from Admiral Kautz, are
ferred to above, is as follows:
Auckland March 29.-To Secretary of
the Navy, Washington: The situation is
improving since telegram of 18th via sgd
ney, New South Wales.
(Signed) 'Kautz"
Contained No Details.
AS will be observed it contains no details
concerning the reported trouble at Apla
Even the date on which 1t was dispatched
from Apia Is not given, but it is presumed
that it left Samoa on March %, the date
upon which the steamer which conveyed
the press dispatches from Apia to Auck-
land, Sailed
The dispatch on March IS, to which Ad-
miral Kautz refers, was not given out at
Ithe time of its receipt here, and even now
Secretary Allen declines to make it pub
lie. 1t is known, however, that 1t report
ed the admrals arrival and gave a brief
resume of the then existing situation.
which must have appeared somewhat
grave at that time, as the admiral reports
that it had improved during the interim.