The San Francisco call., 1898-04-19
Call Office, Riggs House,

in session while the conferees were battling to secure an agreement on the wording of the resolution authoriz- iSg the President to use the army and navy of the United States in putting an end to the war in Cuba, and driving the SpaniardS from that blood-stained gem of the Antilles
 The House, after one of the hardest and most desperate fights in its hs- tory, succeeded in forcing the Senate to yield the main contention in the war resolution-the independence of the ex isting Government of Cuba. With that exception the House accepted the Sen ate resolutions. The Republicans who joined with the Democrats in an at tempt to concur in the Senate amend mentS entire rallied fourteen votes at one time and on every vote thereafter the vote dwindled. When the final vote was taken, shortly before o'clock this morning, BIO votes were cast for the declaration upon which we are go ing to war, If war is to be. Six votes only were cast against it. They in- cluded five Republicans and one Dem ocrat.
 Immediately upon the House convening at 10 o'clock this morning, in accordance with the recess taken Saturday morning, Dingley, the Republican floor leader, moved an adjournment which motion
 
 As the hands of the clock pointed to noon the Speaker ascended the rostrum and with one resounding whack of his gavel silenced the confusion on the floor and the hum of conversation in the crowded galleries. It was an impressive scene as the members listened with bowed heads to the solemn invocation of the blind chaplain
 No sooner had the chaplain ceased, however, than the confusion was re- doubled as the members labored during the last few precious moments. The reading of the journal had not been con- cluded before the clerk of the Senate an- nounced the calling up of the Cuban reso- lutions with the Senate amendments. h. stantly the galleries were all attention, and members leaned forward in their seats. The leaders watched each other with alert features.
 The first move was important, and as the resolutions were read the declaration with regard to the recognition of the in- dependence of Cuba was vocferously cheered by the Democrats This demon stration was repeated when the reading was completed.
 Both Dingley, leader of the Republicans and Bailey were on their feet Dngley was recognized, and he immediately moved concurrence in the Senate amend ment with an amendment striking out the clause In the first resolution. which recog- niZed the independence of the existing | republic. The actual form of the motion l (which was reduced to writing) was as | follows:
 'I move to concur in the Senate aniend- ment to the House joint resolution with an amendment striking out in the first paragraph the are and also the words
 and that the Government of the United States hereby recognizes the republic of 1 Cuba as the true and lawful government of that island so that the first paragraph of the Senate amendment will read as 1 follows: First, that the people of the
 island of Cuba of right ought to be free and independent
 Upon this motion Dingley demanded the 1 previous question. which served to cut off | amendment and debate
 Bailey. who was immediately on his ! feet. asked if the motion to concur with an amendment precluded E a motion to to sim I'm l Speaker that 1t would not If the motion was voted down. It was moment of in | tense excitement.
 Johnson (R) of Indiana and Cromwell
 of Ohio were on their feet. both demand l ing recognition to state preliminary in imous consent to address the House in l antagonism of the motion. but he was howled down. But when Cromwell. mo- ment later. declared that he wished to of cratic side sent up cheer upon cheer.
 The announcement gave the vote as 179 applauded by the Republicans. The fol- l lowing Is the vote In detail on the Dingley motion:
 Yeas-Acheson. Adams. Aldrich Alexander.
 
 Barrett Barrows, Bartholdt Beach, Belden Belford Belknap Bennett. Bishop. Booze Bou- BrumIn Bull, Bureigh. Burton Butler. Can non. Capron. Chckering. Clark 0owa). Clarke | ding Connen, Conneli- Corliss (Kansas) Cou- sins. Crump, Crumpacker. Curtis Dalzell, Dan Dingley. Deliver. Dovenor Eddy, Ellis. Evans | Paris, Fischer, Fletcher, Foote, Foss. Fowler qST Ssn ee}e Gra Gste Grn fT l Grosvenor Grout. Grow, Hager. Hamilton. Farmer. Hawley, Heotwole, Hemingway. Hen Hepburn, Hicks. Hilborn. HILL Hooker Hop kns. Howard (Alabamal, Howe. Howell Hull Hurley. Jenkins. Joy, Kerr, Ketcham. Kirk renee, Linney, Littauer. Loudenslager. Lover | ing Lowe. Lybrand. Mccall, McCleary. Me Donald, McEwan, Mcintyre. Mahon Marsh Mercer Mesck, Miller Mills, Minor Mitchell Moody Morris mudd M9rthTay ode Glm I Payne Payne Pearce, Pearson Perkins. Ptney Prince, Pugh,, ogigg Ray Reeves. Robbins sherman, Showalter. Smith ullnois). Smith South Dakotal. ". A. |, smith. snovers South Steele. Stevens. Stewart (New Jersey), Stew art CWisconsin). Store, C. w; Stone. " A; :; Thorpe Tongue Updegraf Van Voorhees,. Wal ker Massachusetts,, Walker 'Vermont: Wan i eePennsylvana), Yost, Young Pennsylvania). | Total 17S-caused by Representative Boutelle of Maine, after the announcement changing his
 Noes Adamson; Allen. Bailey, Il. Barnes ,ns | Baker IllinoiS), Ball. Bankhead BarlOW Bart | lett Bell Benner, Benton Bland Bodne, Bot 1 kin Bradley Brantley, Brenner. Cromwell, Broussard Brown, Brucker. Brundidge, Burke, l Campbell Carmack Castle, Catchings, Clardy, l Clark CMissourD, Clayton Cochran tMissourD. 1 Colson Cooney. Cooper CTexas), Cooper (Wis- l consin) Cowherd. Cox, Cummings. Davey. | Davis Deadmond. De Graffenreid, De Vries, | Dinsmore Cookery, Dorr. Driggs. Elliott, Err mentrout Fitzgerald, Fitzpatrick, Fleming, l Fowler North Carolina). Fox, Gains, Greene, | Griffith Griggs. Gum. Handy, Hartman, Hay. | Henry (lIississippD, Henry (TeXasl. Hinrich- | sen Howard (Georgia), Hunter, Jett, John son Undiana). Johnson North Dakota), Jones | (Virginia) Jones (Washington). Kelly, King. | Kleberg Knowles. Lamb. Lanham. Latimer, Lentz Lester. Lewis tGeorgia). Lewis CWash- | ington), Little, Livingston Lloyd. Lorimer, l Loud Love, Mcclellan, Mccormick. McCulloch, Mcdowell. McMillan. McRae. Maddox, Ma gure Mahany, Mann. Marshall, Martin, Max we'll Meekinson, Meyer 0ousiana). Miers. | Moon Newlands, Norton (Ohio), Norton South | Carolina) Ogden. Otey, Peters. Pierce CTen- | nesse) Rhea, Richardson Ridgeley, Rixey, Robbs. Robertson. Robinson. Savers Settle, | Shafroth Shuford Simpson, Sims Sayden, Smith (Kentucky). Sparkman. Stallings. Stark. Stephens (Texas), Stokes. Strowd. Sullivan. | Sulloway Sulzer. Sutherland, Swanson. Tal- bert Tate Taylar (Alabama). Terry. Todd. | Underwood, Van Diver. Vincent. Warner, Wheeler (Alabama), Wheeler CSentuckyl, White Ullnois. williams (MississippD Will son. Young (Virginia) Zenor Total. 15S.
 Fourteen Republicans voted with the Democrats and Porulists. as follows: