Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-18
NO EXTRA SESSION
OF =. S. CONGRESS.
Cabinet Meeting Decided 1t Was Not
Necessarily Message to WI Helped
Make President More Hopeful


Make President More Hopeful
WASHINGTON, July lS.--As special cab
met meeting was attended by President
Mckinley, Secretary Hay, Secretary
Root, Secretary Long, Secretary Gage
and Postmaster General Smith.
Afterward Secretary Root gave out
the following formal statement of the
action of the cabinet:
1.-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 congress
is necessary To furnish either men or
money or authority, he will not hesitate
to call it together"
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 adj
ditional troops by congress, and also
the decidedly more hopeful feeling en-
tertained by the president aud the
members of his cabinet as to the safety
of Minister Conger and other foreigners
in Pekin, due to the cable of Minister
Wa reporting the safety of the minis
tiers July 9, two days after their re-
ported massacre.
While this cable is not regarded as
conclusive, ii is accepted in good faith
for the present. But the ad1ninistra-
ton, it can be definitely stated has set
in motion some machinery by which it
is confidently predicted absolutely au-
thentic news as to the fate of our minis
ter and the other foreigners at Pel1in
will be aseertained. Through what
channel the administration expects to
receive this afl-important news is not
known, but that definite statement of
the situation in Peizin is daily, if not
hourly expected can be stated with the
utmost positiveness. The advices re-
eeiven from Pekin probably will be the
determining factor i'll blazing the future
course Of this government. If Minister
Conger has been murdered an extra
session of congress seems inevitable.
The message of Admiral Remey, not
ing the successful fighting at Tien Tsin
also made the situation more hopeful
but the message received by Wa was
responsible for the really hopeful feel
ing of the president.
Secretary Root furnished to the cabi-
- II
not only in this country, but in Cuba,
and gave it as his opinion that between
10000 and $4,000 troops in all could be
spared for service i'll China. These re-
inforcemenTs are to be rushed through
at the earliest possible moment. Most,
if not all OF them, it is believed, can be
landed by the end of August or early i'll
September.
General Haywood was summoned and
he showed that 1000 more marines
would be enlisted. He was told to
hurry up the enlistment
1t was decided also that the battalion
of marines, SEQ in number, who Were to
have left for the far east at the end of
the month, should go forward next Sum
day III command of Major Randolph
Dickens.
1t is the present purpose of the presi-
dent to return to Canton on Thursday
evening. unless his presence here is
deemed necessary at that time. Colonel
Webb Hayes and William Barber, the
presidents nephew, accompanied the
president here, as did Secretary Cor
telyon