Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-07-20
NO EXTRA SESSION.
SITUATION IN CHINA DOES NOT
WARRANT CoNyENISG CONGRESS.
L Decidedly More Hopeful Feeling
Circles The Victory of the Allies
the Forts, and the Reported Safety
Offhe Foreign Ministers July 9th -
Special Meeting of the Cabinet.

1aare hopeful Keeling with regard to the
Chinese situation was apparent in all
administration circles this evening. The
tide Of sentiment, which has been
| markedly ressimistic, turned with the
announcement of the victory of the al
lies at Tien Tsin, and the capture of
the forts and native city and gathered
further strength from Minister Wu's
| cablegram declaring that the foreign
Ministers at Pellin were safe July 9th.
Aside from these dispa tches the ar
rival of the President and the special
| Cabinet meeting called to consider the
situation, were the features Of the
day.
The Cabinet met at 2:30 o'clock this
! afternoon, less than an hour after the
! President reached the White House.
| Over a hundred newspaper men
| thronged the corridors while the Cabi-
net was sitting behind closed doors.
The scene resembled the hottest days
| of the Spanish war. There were present
| Secretary Hay, Secretary Root, Secre-
/ tary LOnS,> Secretary Gage and Post
! master General Smith.
At the conclusion of the session,
| which lasted two and one-half hours,
| Secretary Root gave out the following
! formal statement of the action of the
| Cabinet:
'"The President has determined that
| the facts now known to us do not re-
quire or justify calling an extra seS-
| sion of Congress. Should future devel
| Opments indicate that he is unable to
| do what is required with the means
now at his command and the action of
! Congress is necessary to furnish either
/ men or money or authority he will not
! hesitate to call it tOgether.'
While only this meagre formal state
! nent was given out it was ascertained
! that the whole Chinese situation was
! thoroughly discussed by the Cabinet.
| The decision that an extra session was
not demanded by existing conditions
was the outcome of the showing which
! both Secretary Root and Secretary
| Long were able to make as to the force
that can be thrown into China without
| the authorization of additional troops
! by Congress and also the decidedly
more hopeful feeling entertained by the
| President and the members of his Cabi-
net as to the safety of Minister Con-
! ger and the other foreigners in Pekin,
due to the cable of Minister WI, re-
! porting the safety of the Ministers July
| 9th, two days after their reported mas
| sacre. While this cable is not regarded
as conclusive, it is accepted in good
| faith for the present. But the admins
tratiOn, it can be definitely stated, has
, set in motion some machinery by which
it is confidently predicted absolutely
| authentic news as to the fate of our
Ministers and the other foreigners at
Pekin will be ascertained. Through
what channel the administration ex-
poets to receive this all important news
is not known, but that a definite state
ment of the situation in Pekin is daily,
| if not hourly, expected can be stated
| with the utmost pOsitiveness. The ad-
vices received from Pekin probably will
| be the determining factor in blazing
the future course of this government.
If Minister Conger has been murdered
an extra, session of Congress seems
inevitable. -
Admiral Remey's message of the sue
cess following the earlier hard fighting
at Tien Tsin, helped to relieve the anx-
iety Of the President and his advisers,
| but Minister Wu's message was re-
! spOnsibIe for the really hopeful feel
ing that prevailed. Secretary Root
furnished to the Cabinet a summary
| Of the troops available not only in
| this country, but in Cuba, and gave it
as his opinion that between 10000 and
! L, 900 troops in all could be spared for
! service in China. These reinforcements
are to be rushed through at the earli-
est possible moment. MOSI, II not dII
Of them, it is believed can be landed
by the end Of August or early in Sep
| tembef. One Cabinet officer said that
| beyond those soldiers already destined
| for China from the Philippines, no
| further troops from the islands would
| be withdrawn. unless the situation be-
| came more OminOus. In figuring upon
the number Of additional marines
aVailab able, Secretary Long summoned
| 70 10 Co
wood, who commands the Marine
Corps, and who is familiar with every
detail of that branch of the service.
He explained that under existing law,
the full strength Of the marine corps
is 5000. But the enlistments at the pres
ert time aggregate only about 5000.
This makes an additional 1000 marines,
who can be brought into the service
without Congressional action. No new
order for recruiting these men is nee
eSSary, as the recruiting stations are
now in operation, but in the presence
of the Cabinet, Secretary Long direct
ed General Haywood to use his utmost
endeavors to complete the recruiting
of the additional 1000 marines. 1t was
decided also, that the battalion of ma
rines, 500 in number. who were to have
left for the Far East at the end OF
the month, should go forward on next
Sunday in command of Major Ran
dOIph Dickens.
In the list of casualties forwarded
In Admiral Reney's cable to-day are
six officers not mentioned in yester-
days advices, namely, Major Jesse NJ
Lee, Captain Andree w. Brewster
First Lieutenants Louis 3. Lawton
William K. Naylor and Harold Ham
mond and Second Lieutenant William
e, Waldron.
Major Lee IS native Of Indiana, He
entered the volunteer service in No
yember, 1861
Captain Brewster is a native of New
Jersey, but was appointed to the army
from Pennsylvania. He was promoted
to Captain in the regular establishment
March 2, 1899.
Lieutenant Lawton is a native OF
Iowa, but was appointed to the Mill
tary Academy from New York.
Lieutenant Hammond is a native OF
Illinois, from which State he was ap-
pointed to the Military Academy.
/ Lieutenant Naylor is a native of Illi-
nois and was appointed to the regular
army from civil life.
: Lieutenant Waldron is a native OF
West Virginia. He served as quarter
master-sergeant in the Second West
Virginia volunteers during the Spanish