The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-18
NOT TO CONVENE CONGRESS
PRESIDENT DECIDES EXTRA SES-
SION UNNECESSARY At PRES ENI.

Should Future Developments, How
ever, require 1t He VIII Not Hesitate
20 Act--Tho whole Chinese Situation
Thoroughly Discussed by Cabinct-A
More Hopeful Feeling Created by Yes
trrday's N ws-State Drpartmcn
Working to Definitely Decide tn
situation at Pchin-Nlinister Wu's Adj
vices That tho Legations Were s"f
July 0 Not Taken ms Conciusivr,
Washington, July ia decidedly
more hopeful feeling with regard to the
Chinese situation was apparent in al
administration circles this evening, The
tide of sentiment which bad beer
markedly pessimistic, turned with the
announcement of the victory of the al
lies al Tien Tsin and the capture of the
forts and native city, and gathered fur
ther strength from Minister Wu's ca
blegram declaring that the foreign min.
listers at Pekin We're safe on July .
Aside from these dispatches, the arri-
val of the president and the special cab
inet meeting called to consider the sit
uation were the features of the day
They met at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon
less than an hour after the president
reached the White house. Over hun
dred newspaper men thronged the cor
ridors while the cabinet was sitting be-
hind closed doors. The scene resem-
1 1nI ~ tntt low nf tl.A S,,a icl,
war. There We're present Secretary
Hay, Secretary Root Secretary Long,
Secretary Gage and Postmaster-Gene
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 session
of congress Should future develop
ments indicate that he Is unable to do
what is required with the means now
at his command, and the action Of con-
gress is necessary to furnish either men
or money or authority, he will not hes
itate to call it together"
While only this meagre formal state
ment was given out. it was ascertained
that the whole Chinese situation was
thoroughly discussed by the cabinet
The decision that an extra session of
congress 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 decid-
edly more hopeful feeling entertained
by the president and members of his
cabinet as to the safety of Minister
Conger and the other foreigners in Pc
kin, due to the cable Of Minister Wu
reporting the safety of the ministers on
July 8, two days after their reported
massacre. While this cable Ia not re-
garded as conclusive, it Is accepted in
good faith for the present, But the ad-
ministration it can be definitely stated,
has set in motion some machinery by
which, it is confidently predicted, abso-
lutely authentic news as to the fate Of
our minister 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 definite state
ment of the situation in Pekin Is daily,
if not hourly expected can be statea
with the utmost posltiveness. The ad-
vices received from Pekin will probably
be the determining factor In forming
the future course Of this government
If Minister Conger has been murdered
an extra session of congress seems in
evitable
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 respon-
sible for the really hopeful feeling that
prevailed. Secretary Root furnished to
the cabinet summary of the troops
available, not only in this country, but
in Cuba, and gave 1t as his opinion that
between 10000 and 1900 troops in all
could be spared for service in China.
These re-inforcements are to be rushed
at the earliest possible moment
Most, if not all Of them, it is believed
can be landed by the end of August or
early in September. One cabinet officer
said that beyond these soldiers already
destined for China from the Philippines
no further troops from the islands would
be Withdrawn unless the situation be-
come more and more ominous. In fig |
uring uron the number of additional
marines available Secretary Long sum- |
moned to the cabinet meeting General
Haywood, who commands the marine
corps, and who Is familiar with every |
letal of that branch of the service. He |
explained that under existing law the !
'ull strength of the marine corps is g. |
100. But the enlistments at the present |
ime aggregate only about 5000 This
makes an additional 1000 marines who
AN be brought into the service without |
action. No new order
or recruiting the men is necessary as
he recruiting stations are now in oper-
ltion but in the presence of the cabinet
secretary Long directed General Hay
vo0d 70 rse hi@ utmost endeavors to
the recruiting of the addition |
Il 1 900 marines, 1t was decided, also,
hat the battalion of marines, 500 in
lumber, who We're to have left for the
ar east at the end of the month should
% forward on next Sunday in command
f Major Randolph Dickins.
VAR ON RUSSIA.