Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — SALISBURY MUST ANSWER [ARTICLE]

SALISBURY MUST ANSWER

Another Vigorous Ndte Sent by the President to the Premier. Washington special: There has been a long and earnest session of the Cabinet. The subject was the Behring Sea matter. No material statement is published as to the-discussion or conclusions. Nor has any information as yet been given as to the nature of Lord Salisbury’s reply. The only otlicial information that has thus far been obtained regarding the Salisbury note is that it is deemed by the administration as unsatisfactory and evasive'. By this it is understood that Lord Salisbury neither absolutely rejects nor agrees to the proposed modus vivendi. An absolute rejection would have been more acceptable to this Government than the vague und unsatisfactory answer that has come. It is ascertained that one result of the Cabinet meeting was that another dispatch was sent to Li rd Salisbury by this Government. One who should know says this dispatch is peremptory in tone and that it demands a speedy categorical answer to the inquiry as to whether or not a modus vivendi wiil be agreed upon. Your correspondent’s informant says that the dispatch sent Lord Salisbury is in many respects as vigorous as the famous recent dispatch by President Harrison to Chili, which is characterized as the ultimatum. There seems to bo among the Senators more of a disposition to reject tho arbitration treaty than there was a few days ago. It is not probable that the President will send to the Senate the last communication from Lord Salisbury until a reply shall have been received to the last note sent to Great Britain by the direction of the President.