Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-13
MCKINLEY TO CONGRESS.
Wants to Use the United States
Army as Police Force.
DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE CUBANS.

The Long Promised Message Proves Flat
Disappointment-Memb of the Presi-
dents Own Party Hoped For n Decid-
ed Stand-Congress Expected to Act
Independently.
The presidents long expected mes
sage was sent to congress last Monday
at noon, after its contents had been
fully forecasted in the more enterpris.
ing of the big dailies.
Anticipating startling developments
upon the reading of the message, and
with a view to giving the people of
the country, without unnecessary de-
lay, bulletin upon which everybody
could rely, THE ENQUIRER on Mon
day telegrapbed Senator McLaurin
requesting him to please give US, at
the earliest possible moment, a state
ment of the gist of the message to-
gether with its effect. At 2.27 Mon
day afternoon he telegraphed the fol-
lowing, which was the first news to
reach this section:
ment to congress. 1t asks permission to In
tervene In Cuba without recognizing either
the belligerency or the independence of the
insurgents. 1t was referred to committee,
which will probably report tomorrow.
JOHN L. McLAURIN.
For those fully conversant with the
situation, it is not worth while to make
another reference to Mondays devel-
opments in the White House or in
congress. The brief dispatch tells the
story as satisfactorily as it is told by
the columns of matter in the papers
of Tuesday morning. However, for
the benefit of readers who desire more
detail, here is a complete summary of
what the president had to say:
1t asks congress to authorize the
president to take measures to secure
the termination of hostilities in Cuba
and to secure the establishment Of a
stable government there and to use the
military and naval forces of the United
States as may be necessary for those
purposes.
The president calls attention to the
fact that for so years revolutions have
been occurring periodically in the isl
and, where the people have risen in
arms against the dominion of Spain.
These wars have caused the people of
this country great Inconvenience and
loss and shocked them by the nearness
of such barbarities as were practiced.
He comments on the friendly offers
of President Cleveland looking TO
mediation and the refusal of Spain to
accept such offers.
The horrors of recommendation are
vividly portrayed, the president say
ing:
"Reconcentration adopted avowedly
as a war measure in order to cut Oft
the resources of the insurgents work
ed its predestined result. AS | said in
nv message of last December, it was
not civilized warfare; it was exterml-
nation. The only peace it could beget
was that Of the wilderness and the
grave"
After speaking of the work of relief
engaged in by the people of this coun-
try, he adds:
1.-THE war in Cuba is of such nature
that short of suljugation or extermi
nation final military victory for eth.
er side seems impracticable. The al
tentative lies in the physical exhauS-
tion of the one or of the other party
or perhaps of bo,h-a condition which
in effect ended the 10 years war by
the truce of Zanjon.
"The prospect of such a protection
and conclusion Of the present strife is
a contingency hardly to be contem-
plated with equanimity by the civilized
world and least Of all by the United
States, affected and injured as we are,
deeply and intimately, by its very ex-
iStence.
"Realizing this it appears to be my
duty in spirit of true friendliness no
less to Spain than to the Cubans who
have so much to lose by the prolonga-
ton of the struggle, to bring about al
immediate termination of the war
The president then speaks of his last
efforts at negotiation with Spian which
were futile, and which he says brought
him to the end of all that he could 40
on that line.
The president says the only hope OF
relief from condition which can no
longer be endured is the enforced pacl-
ficalion Of the island.
The request for authority to stop the
war is as follows:
SIN view of these facts and of these
conditions, | ask congress to authorize
and empower the president to take
measures to secure full and final ter
mination of hostililies between the
government of Spain and the people of
Cuba and to secure in the island the
establishment of stable government
capable of maintaining order and OBJ
serving its obligations, ensurlng peace
and tranquility and the security OF its
ciliZrns, as well as our own, and to
use the military and naval forces OF
the United States as may be necessary
for these purposes"
The issue is now with congress, and
he awaits its action, standing prepared
to carry out every obligation imposed
upon him by the constitution.
SPANS decree for ii suspension of
hoslilities is submitted TO congress for
lust and careful attention, with the
observation that if the message attalns
a successful result, "then our aspira-
tions as a peace-loving people will be