| Show SUABBLE1M SAOA SiUABBLE t SAMiA United States Will Stand By the Treaty JASK OF INFORMATION I MOTIVES OF CHIEF JUSTICE NOT UNDERSTOOD + Believed That He Turned Mataaf Down On Account of Fraud I th Election German Governmen Denies That Its Consul Committed Any Offense WarsMp Orders + Washington Jan 20The state department de-partment is moving with due deliberation delibera-tion yet with firmness respecting the adjustment of conditions in Samoa and is directing all of Its efforts to the use of lawful and regular means to settle the succession at Apia In fact it was Its insistence upon the compliance com-pliance of all the parties to the tripartite treaty with the terms of that document so long as it stood unde nounced and unamended that has made Us position so strong legally at this juncture There is still a lack oC official reports upon the details of the stirring events at pia A brief statement of these events has reached the department through the United States dispatch agent at San Francisco but so far as an be gathered I Is not yet known just why Chief Justice Chambers decided de-cided that Mataafa the German candidate candi-date for the succession to1 the throne of Samoa was Ineligible I is suspected sus-pected here that the decision was based on the use of improper influence by outside but interested parties In I the election of the king That If established estab-lished would be sufficient to disqualify Mataafa under the strict terms of the treaty which expressly provides for an untrammeled choice by the natives according to their own established customs The United States government ment must adhere to the terms of the treaty so long a it stands this being a duty imposed upon the government by the document Itself So it is to be presumed in the absence of an official statement that the United States consul general at Apia and perhaps also to Ambassador White at Berlin are to be governed by this understanding In any presentation presenta-tion of the case that it may be necessary neces-sary to make The navy departments orders to the Philadelphia did not go out to Admiral Ad-miral Kautz until today Then they were in the shape of instructions to take on a full supply of coal and make ready for a cruise to Samoa There was not a explicit order to start but simply to make ready I the admiral as reported in the press dispatches finds that his ships bottom is so foul I through her cruise in the southern I waters a to b unfit for the voyage to Samoa he probably will be authorized author-ized to use divers to clean the hull for I the department has decided that the ship should not be sent to the Mare Island navy yard to be fitted out There will be about five days available able in all probability before the Philadelphia can clear and the department de-partment will b able to order Chief Engineer Bates from the Texas to take the place of Engineer McAllister of the Philadelphia Engineer Bates was ordered to leave Havana last night I for New Orleans whence he will proceed ceed by rail to San Diego |
