Writing A Cuban Message

Washington, March 22. - President McKinley is preparing a message to congress on the Cuban situation. It will be sent to congress, it is thought, independent of the Maine inquiry and will relate to the subject of intervention. One of the president's official advisers said the message would probably go beyond the recognition of independence and intervene to stop the war in Cuba, 'It will be one of the most remarkable state papers since Lincoln's administration," said this informant, 'and will prove Mr. McKlnley's course to have been the proper one. The message is not dependent on the Maine question. I think it will go to eongress in a few days at the latest."