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Show TELEGRAPHIC Tho hipiiui.sh Sole I'usufisfUc-tory I'usufisfUc-tory The Inter Oceanic Canal, Chicago, 11. A Washington special says: It seems probable that the negotiations of Caleb Cushing have not been ns successful as had hcen expected." The president in his message said : " The government ol Spain had submitted Lo Mr, Cueh-inij Cueh-inij certain proposals which it is hoped may be found to be the b.U if not the actual submission ui terms to meet the requirements of llie particular particu-lar griefs of which t hies government has lelt itself entitled to complain." It is manifest from the consideration of the Spanish note that the proposal- eubmitttd do not so nearly luruish the basiij as had been hoped. It remains to bo seen whether the president in his special message .vill re-empliasize these words: "Should the couihct not sooi. be brought to an end by the act oi :be parties themselves, other nations na-tions will be compelled to assume the responsibility which devolves upon them, and to seriously consider the only remaining measures possible I mediation and inteivention." It is on this point that the Spanish note is unsatisfactory. It is evasive r.s to the pacification of Cuba. It is understood under-stood that at a cabinet meeting yesterday yes-terday the Inst Spanish note was discussed at some length. Although this note is conciliatory enough in tone and is in a certain sense satisfactory, yet it leaves matters in such a shape that it is not improbable that the president will he unable, in a special message which he will shortly send in, to announce to congress a determination deter-mination of any of the important questions which bavs been the subject sub-ject of correspondence between the two governments. The president will therefore remit the disposition of the matter to congress, atiJ from expressions ex-pressions of members it may be expected ex-pected there will be some exceptions taken to the policy of the administration. administra-tion. A distinguished paember of the house, who has served with distinction distinc-tion on the foreign affairs committee, and who will without doubt be again placed upon it, Btated his positive dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with the intervention idea enunciated in the aunual message. mes-sage. He said intervention could mean nothing but war, and there would be no excuse for that. Belligerent Bellig-erent recognition, he claimed, was the only proper coune. The president, in view of the importance im-portance ol the inter-oceanic canal projec t, decided at the last moment to withhold any allusion to it in his annual message, and he wrote a special message upon ho subject. This he expects to send to congress next week. He will especially urge an appropriation this winter for the beginning of the work. |