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Move for Humanity Prompts Cuban Intervention Debate
Washington March 23 Developments indicate a policy of almost immediate intervention in Cuba to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of reconcentrados. Cabinet officers urged the president that recognition of Cuban independence could be viewed as warlike. Intervention to secure peace and avoid annexation is argued as the humane course before the world.
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WasHinetox
Cuba
Gallinger
Senate
Proctor
Thurston
Spain
Maine Board of Inquiry
Congress
Sean
Cuban Republic
Massachusetts Sails as Navy Plans Flying Squadron
The Massachusetts sailed from Key West for Hampton Roads to join the Texas. Commodore Schley visited the Navy Department for talks with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt about leading the flying squadron. Brooklyn lies at Newport News and Puritan heads there. near the Hampton Roads rendezvous if formed. No orders issued and no confirmation Schley will command.
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Washington
Bureau of Navigation of the
Naval Department
Massachusetts
Key West
Hampton Roads
Schley
Department
Roosevelt
Brooklyn
Newport News
Campton Roads
Maine Report Enroute May Enigma Remains In Court Findings
Key West March 28 Lieutenant Commander Marix left for Washington with the naval board of inquiry report on the Maine explosion accompanied by two armed officers. The verdict remains uncertain and Admiral Sicard hinted the case is peculiarly complex, with possible further inquiry after transmission. The court's existence is nominal.
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Marix
Washington
Key West
Naval Board of Inquiry
Maine
Admirel Sicard
Blanco Threatens to Resign Over Torpedo Fleet Move
A Havana dispatch claims Captain General Blanco and Admiral Manterola threaten resignation if the Spanish torpedo fleet is kept at the Canaries to satisfy President McKinley. Captain Eulate allegedly sent a similar message to the Spanish admiralty. also news of the Willie de Rome wreck near Port Mahon and Jim Jeffries defeating Peter Jackson in San Francisco.
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Eulate
New York
Havana
General Blanco
Madrid
Canaries
McKinley
Vizcaya
Navy eyes West Indies coaling station facing hostilities
Washington March 23 The navy department weighs acquiring a West Indies coaling station with Dry Tortugas as a backstop. Officials seek a deep water harbor for big war vessels between Hampton Roads and the Rio Grande, possibly by purchase or cession from friendly governments. Sec Long reviews options as secure fuel access becomes crucial in wartime.
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Washington
Navy Department
West Indies
Dry Tortugas
Hampton Roads
Rio Grande
United States
Long
New Vessel Secured For Harbor Torpedo Work
Washington reports the navy has secured a small Yarrow built launch to serve as a harbor torpedo boat after the Brazilian Toby torpedo cruiser deal failed. The 17 ton craft, 60 feet long, armed with two Hotchkiss guns and a torpedo tube, weighs under $25,000 and will be delivered in New York and shipped on Atlantic liners.
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Washington
Toby
Brazil
Navy Department
New York
NEW NAVAL IMPROVEMENTS
The naval appropriation bill reports total funding of 35,683,058 dollars, a rise of 3,764,432 from last year. It authorizes three seagoing coast line battleships, six torpedo boats, six torpedo boat destroyers, one gunboat for the Great Lakes, and five new drydocks with construction to begin within 60 days of enactment.
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Maine
U.S. S
Michigan
Great Lakes
Pacifica
Examining Merchant Ships For Naval Use
Lieutenant Kelly says the Morgan line steamer Chalmett is chosen as a repair ship for possible naval defense. The board reviews New York to southern port steamers for wartime use, examining Jamestown Yorktown Concha and El Sud for auxiliary service. Veazey dies former interstate commerce commissioner. Berkeley Springs famous hotel burns. loss 50000, insured 18000. Naval appropriation bill reported to the House amid election case Thorpe vs Eppes.
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New York
Kelly
Board For
Morgan Line
Chalmett
Jamestown
Yorktown
Old Dominion Line
Concha
Mallory Line
el Sud
Washington
Thorpe Va Eppes
Virginia
Firm stance for Cuba shapes policy debate in Washington
Washington March 23. Cabinet discussed Spain Cuba and the Maine court findings. Report due next Thursday or Friday and public Monday or Tuesday. President and cabinet consider end to Cuba crisis with possible intervention or recognition of independence if Spain fails to respond suitably. Senor Polo denies discussing independence.
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Washington
Maine Court of Inquiry
Cuba
Long
Congress
Spain
Maine
Senor Polo
Barker Returns to Navy Office After Secret Mission
Captain Barker naval aide to the secretary of the navy resumes duty at the navy department after a days absence. He was in Key West on a secret mission and conferred with Rear Admiral Sicard and Captain Sampson regarding the Maine disaster and its possible consequences.
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Washington
Barker
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Department
Key West
Sicard
North Atlantic
Sampson
Naval Court of Inquiry
Maine
Negotiations with Cuban rebels collapse in Havana
In Havana delegations led by Ramirez Charvez clash with General Calixto Garcia and insurgents over radical autonomist aims. The talks have failed, signaling a return to hostilities amid unclear meeting details. Separately in Chicago, a six story building at Monroe Street housing Monroe Catering and Building Trades club burns, four women escape, five injured, losses about 90000. In Newport News, battleships Kearsage and Kentucky to be launched with Secretary Long unlikely to attend. Governor Bradley and Kentuckians leave Frankfort for the event.
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Havana
Key West
Pando
Ramirez and
Charvez
Calixto Garcia
Chicago
Monroe Street
Monroe Catering Company
Building Trades Club
Catering Company
Wasketos
Kearsage
Kentucky
Newport News
Long
Bradley
Frankfort
House Acts Against Marmet Contempt in Columbus
The Ohio House adopted a resolution to bring Will iam Marmet of Cincinnati before the body for contempt after he failed to return for a memory-refreshing session with the taxation committee. This marks the first contempt arraignment since 1885. Also noted are Senate bills on delinquent taxes, primary election ethics, and railway crossings, plus House actions on state institutions funding and convict labor reform. Columbus reports also cover a boxing match where Oscar Gardner defeated Mike Farragher in three rounds, and a Supreme Court ruling nullifying the sale of the Hocking canal to a railway company.
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Marmet
CoLumBus
William Marmet
Cincinnati
Committee On Taxation
Dan Dalton
Hamilton County
Senate
Senator Decker
Senator Long
Commissioner of Railways and Telegraph
Senator Riley
Bennor Dodge
Schafer
Lewistown Reservoir
Miami and
Ene
Ms. Robertson
Cromley
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Jones
McBroom
Cramer
Ohio
Bramley
Hinsdale
Smith
Adams
Virginia Military District
Alexander
Sleeper predicts imminent war with Spain
In Cripple Creek Hon. D. SLEEPER, ex speaker and McKinley ally, says war with Spain is inevitable and Cuba will be freed. indemnity will settle the matter. Separately in Wasuhinotoroy Senators Allison and Gorman meet the president by appointment to discuss the Cuban situation and seek party leaders' views.
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Colo
Sleeper
Ohio
McKinley
Spain
Cuba
United States
Wasuixaroy
Allison and
Gorman
Governor Bradley’s Alaska Cruise Report
Secretary Bliss releases a letter from Governor John G Bradley of Alaska recounting his coastwise inspection aboard the Wheeling. He praises the voyage for benefiting natives by deterring witchcraft rum duil and beer making and urges firm enforcement of laws. He notes efforts to curb native wrongdoing during the trip.
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Bliss
John G. Bradley
Alaska
United States
Wheeling
Many Rivers Flood Across a Wide Area
A cloudburst at Troy triggers damaging floods in the Miami valley threatening landslides and railroad damage. Rivers rise rapidly across Ohio and Pennsylvania with homes evacuated, rail lines disrupted, and towns like Fallston and Beaver seeing high water and blocked embankments.
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Pittsburg
Massillion
Taccarawas River
Patagonia
Averflow
Beaver Falls
Ohio
Fallston
Erie and
Lake Erie
Walnut Run
Beaver
Dave & Mylers
Pirtasure
Three Rivers
Wil City
Morgantown
Wheeling
Allegheny
Southside
Western
Portiaxo
Ind
Suamonia
Wanpala
St. Louis
Misissippi Valley
Watching Spain's Fleet in Canary Islands Wreath of News
The navy continues to track the Spanish torpedo flotilla at the Canaries with no confirmed departure. No protest by President McKinley is reported. Maine officers at Havana may be ordered home by Admiral Sicard, not the navy department. Survivors arrived by Admiral Sicard’s orders. wreck salvage at Havana expected to finish before the men depart.
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Wasui Nutox
Navy Department
Canaries
Department
Mckinley
Havana
Admiral Sicard
Maine
Naval
Sigshee
Wainwright
Army Reorganization Bill Advances After House Committee Vote
Military affairs panel completed review and reported favorably on the army reorganization measure. Changes limit president’s wartime recruitment to actual hostilities after a war declaration and add a clause preventing peacetime force increases.
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House
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