| Show i TAKE PORTO RICO AT i T ONCE 0 I i Immediato Seizure of tho Island Said 10 Ham Been Ordcrcd r 1 Command May lie Obeyed Within 48 Hours I Senator Burrows Coming Direct from an Interview With President McKinley Declares that the United States Will Have 1 Porto Rico Probably In a Day or Two Irry 3ruportant Task Ilpfore Admiral Salulnr1planatinn of Ilia nnl Illift at I Shipa to Her 11tEverything Is I 31log on Houtorkly und WIThIuhl Will Sw 100 1 oil Ihu jut I h for 110 NS P In th tnlUool tbi lu Ioro Il Against bpaulih into > mr Well Inder Uy Washington May 5Thero were many conferences between the Presl dent and senators and representatives today The first comer Was senator Uurrowa of Michigan who came to present norno filcnds to the President An he lelt he Baldly I J erYthing Is I moving along smooth ly I and well What wo want now In I Porto Inca We ought to have that t tomorrow Win I be as soon as that senator Yes 1 vv as tho response probably in I 1 day or two While refraining from saying what transpired during his Intrvlw I Ni lh the President his statement that the 0 clzure of Porto nice Is eXIected to b a effected In a day or two was thought b y his hearers to be significant hnv IIIR I been made immediately alter the senator left the President though he ould not nay the President had given him any Information I Senators rie and Hale of Maine respectively members of the foreign afTnlr committee and Chairman of the nnal affairs committee and Senators Allison and Gear of Iowa Senator I fail of New York and Represents ti ies Curtis of Kansas and Wndsworb of New York mere among the early I allen The two Maine senators stated of leaving I the White House that their mission had no connection with the gnernl situation Despite the hourly expectation of on ofllclal dispatch from Commodore Dewey via Hongkong there were no < Important I advices at the White Iou up to ir oclock Persons who were wlththeIresldcnt today assert that there Is I a strong likelihood I that Porto Rico will be In the hands of the United States within 43 hours The Immediate seizure of the Inlands I they assert has been ordered though direct confirmation Is lacking Senator Lindsay and Representative Settle of Kentucky urged the appointment appoint-ment of 1 I Johnson and John H Cnstleman as brigadier generals Representatives Rep-resentatives Grosvenor and Southnrd an of Ohio ought a change In the allot rent of volunteers from Ohio so a to lrld more Infantry and lethe ot le-the other branches A PROMISED RnVOIT New York May GA dispatch to the World from St Thomas West Indies says On the steamship Marconnlo which arrived here from Pone Porto ItIco is I Senora Henna mother of the prei dent of the Iorto Rican Junta who has ben compelled to leave by the prae tutlon of the Spanish olllclals Refugees rtport the garrison at Ponce depleted to reinforce the Spanish In other parts The rebels expect the er I ha of Col Lacret hourly to Initial a revolt The government Is distributing arm but refus any to natives mho are mus perted of rebel tendencies The price of food Is still advancing Ice has gone up 200 per cent and the papers are commenting bitterly on the rapacl of the food speculators whose large supplies were expected to cause a break In prices Olllclals have con tIcated the coal supply of the Pone gas marks but the manager has ben ordered or-dered to continue the light service In spite of the confiscation The prisons ire filled with political suspects Including In-cluding Jose llarbosa the liberal leader lead-er Three women are In Jail the wives of suspected Insurgents arrested In Ia valid by lanoo orders Several editors have been expelled IUPORTID TO nn UNDKII WAY New York May 5A special dispatch from Kindlon Jamaica asserts that official dispatches passing in arid through that city report that there hRS been an antiSpanish uprising In Porto Io and that a revolutionary move men 1 well under way The dispatch has not been confirm ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT TEL Washington May 5No confirmation confirma-tion Is I obtainable of the various rai ports concernint movements 01 Ad mlrnl ampons tlet Persons Nho from their tifflclal position might beth I supposed to shift be-th confidence of the Administration are credited with I the statement that the admiral has gono IP seize Porto Rico and thl statement Is I made after Cent mile with the I x eel a five On the other hand It Is I asserted that the almost equal pooithen that the lleet ban gun to meet the Oregon and bring her safe I y t the north Still another report Ie to the effect that the admiral has gone to seize Mata to be used as Mat-a Kise of operations The ofllclais refuse absolutely to make public the plan of the strategy board and thus give aid to the enemy Therefore them conflicting rumors a tip th plans of the fleet can only ba judged In the light of their probability when Mowed In connection with the usual methods of warfare Thus to bombard Matunzaa wlthou at the same time being able to land a i sulllclent force to seize and hold the place would seem to be very bad strategy strat-egy and the fact that Sampsons let vias accompanied by no troops or trprto ould seem to negative the Idea that he had gone either to attack litateirixas or seize Porto nice To attempt at-tempt the latter would require a strong landing I force In view of the number of Spanish troops on the Island and In addition it may b suggested that Admiral Ad-miral Sampson would be very loath to run the risk of having one or more of h best ships crippled by attacking q Z i IF forts needlessly still thus leave his I fleet Inferior to the Spanish force I A significant mOeent Is I the nd dltlons of the I warship New Orleans f 10 I Commodore Ichley squadron nt Hampton Holds In place of the Columbia i te umbia This seems to Indicate a compete I com-pete change In the character of the squadron which Instead of being a I flying squadron In the ordinary sense 11 I tan now assumed the character of a 11 tattle I fleet I Without being os speedy ns at first lt organized Commodore Schieys squadron Is I probably now able to Muet on even terms nt least the I formidable Spanish armored cruisers which sailed from Cajw Verde for an unknown destination In view of this iii action of the department and parlcu larly I If chley should be reinforced by some torpedo vessel It may b as umed that he Is I about to tart In I quest of the Spanish quadron I I Chief Hnelneer Harris Webster a t member of the naval recruiting Ward rerltng bar I which has been I gathering material for I the personnel of the navy In the wet I and South nrrlved at the navy depart mnt this morning le I Is jut from the Norfolk navy n where he landed land-ed lOt god men who had been enlisted I en-listed bj the Ward Commander Hawley 1 Haw-ley I and Ur PearFonK the other mem hers of the board with boatswain I Larkin late of the Maine have arrived fIn f-In Detroit wtwre they will tomorrow open recruiting headquarters I SPANIARDS IN TEAR I BINIAtDS FIAn A Madrid May 6 2 pmFr are ex > pri used that the United State fleet Porto Ila I gone RICO t capture the capital of I I 4 |
