The age-herald., 1898-04-06
There Will Be No Action Until Thurs
 day When Committees Report
IT WILL MAKE NO RECOMMENDATIONS
Responsibility Thrown on Congress With Pledge That President Will Stand in Line With Its Action-Wan
 Street Still at Work.
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.

Special D1sparch 10 rne Age-heraius
 By JAY F. DURHAM.
 Washington, April 5.-Al is quiet on the Potomac tonight, and a pail hangs over the capitol city. Upon the surface all is calm and serene. Every engine of war is being hoisted in position. Every death-dealing instrument, from a bayonet to battleship, is equip ped for the conflict. If it does come it will come soon, and the shots will be thick and fast. Un- less all signs fail, and every utter ance from official circles is a lie, war is sure to come as the morrow, provided Spain does not back down and surrender before shot is fired. Tho latter is not impro- bable. Spain has a record for bravery before the danger time is reached, and the habit of hoisting the white flag when face to face with formidable foe.
 Mckinley will, it seems, make his word good and send the message to congress at noon tomorrow. It may be the means of opening the battle the day after, no &C., tion on the message will be taken until Thursday, when the foreign affairs com mittees of both houses will make their re- spective reports. Then the thing will be dome The senate committee has already agreed upon 6 resolution for the declara- tion of war, with the destruction of the Maine as the prime cause. The report may be changed to fit the tenor of the message, should that document take grounds approaching policy of that na- ture.
 House Committee Divided
 Tonight the house committee is divid d as to whether the matter should be treated with armed intervention without independ- ence of the insurgents or both if necessary. The armed intervention plan alone IS to De proposed by the president and does not meet with popular favor by either party, and especially with the democrats.
 The democrats will stand as they have always stood, in favor of the recognition of the independence of the insurgents, ana should that lead to war, they are willing to welcome it. They will also insist that the Maine matter be made the real cause for war, and not the contest between Spain and Cuba, as the only grounds. Many democrats take the position that armed in tervention without independence is re- publican scheme to get possession or the island and then annex 1t to the Onltea States. Upon the other hand, Mckinley friends argue that it is impossible to recog- p;ze the independence of the Cubans so long as they have perfected no government of their own; but to make an armed inter vention will drive the Spanish flag from the f.v,1n States will help the Cubans to establish a republican form of government Of their own and then carry out the true intent or the Monroe doctrine.
 VIII Make No Recommendation
 The truth is, the president will not make amy recommendations in hds message but will throw the entire responsibility upon congress He will say tomorrow that ne will stand in Line with congress on any rropoedtaon 1t may make. If he can be reljed upon to do this. there Is hardly a. do,,bt but what dt will be armed interven- tion with recognition
 Senator Money said tonight thaf 1T tne proeranme of the administration as out lined In tomorrow,s promised message meant only intervention that the senate would on Thursday have report rom one committee on foreign relations of resolu- &aon which would recognize the indepeG- derrce of Cuba; that the Foralxer resolution which embodied armed intervention with recognition of the Cuban republic would be passed by the senate and he had no Aoub& 1t would pass tale house.
 The "peace at any price" patriots have not given up hope. though the war cloud seens nearer the surface tflan ever.
 Mark Hanna, Steve Elkins and John J. McCook were at the white house the most of the day. Hanna Is still tugging at the strings which lead to Wall street. He was In his worst humor today. Reason gave way to profanity, and he cursed like steamboat mate and damned everything and everybody except himself. His abuse was directed at congress for it's expressed patriotic sentiments on the Maine affair.
 < is the hope of this country to get all Americans out of Cuba before the declara- 1VY- LEAT COAL. g per ton. Telephone