Show MelUM I V WILL TELL < Whn I In In fr C o of Ih Mal Dlliler tlio Iubllc Will Know Too Chicago Feb 5Mr I 1 Kohlsaat who Is cry close to Prost dent McKinley publishes the following In the Chicago Evening Pot today I can be stated positively that neither the President nor Secretary Long Is In possession of a single factor fact-or report In gar to the Maine disaster dis-aster that they have not made public And while they cannot Conlrn or deny the sensational stories dally published throughout the country as to tire progress prog-ress of the court of Inquiry Into the cause of the disaster to the Maine from Captnln Sampson town to the divers and Inlel I I under oath ofiocrecy Par the time being tire divers are un tier nwnl lloclpllno When above Water each la I attended by a Petty olllcer of the court of Inquiry The Main Itself In I safely guarded from unofficial ap prach These facts account for the r narkable equanimity with which the Vmerlcan people read the dally sensa lons from lvana I and the stock job hlng CorIdlngf war trm New York und Wnhlnton This much Is I absolutely true President Pres-ident McKinley knows nothing about the wreck ot the Maine or the teitl mony udd Us cause that he has not made public He wlll not withhold any Information when he gets It He has not com to tiny conclusion ns to whotlur tire disaster was nccldenlnl or designed or whether It was caused by an Internal or exteral explosion When he receives the report oC the court of Inquiry he will know the facts which he will make Public wIth his I concluslona und policy |