Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-31
LIEUT.. MARK IS POSITIVE.
Evidence Was Conclusive Upon that Point
Gould Not Find the Hand that
Fired 1t.

ANtM IOih. ol.-lAltut. tolil-
mander Mark. Judge advocate of the
court of inquiry into the Maine disas-
ter has resumed his duties as execu-
tive officer Of the receiving ship Yer
mont. The lieutenant commander, re-
leased from the oath of secrecy in re-
lation to the blowing up of the battle
ship. had this to say:
I'VE know that the Maine was
blown up by mine as surely as u
physician knows Il man was poisoned
when he finds him suffering from the
effects of such poison"
1t was suggested that the conclu-
sions of the board seemed based on
circumstantial evidence.
surely" exclaimed Lieut.. Com
mander Mark, You have not read
carefully the report OF the board or
you would not feel a particle of doubt
as to how the Maine was destroyed.
The evidence was circumstantial, 1t il
true, in the sense that we did not find
any remnant of the mine or find the
person whose hand caused the explo-
sion, but IL was conclusive.
"The Names keel was found blown
upward her plates were blown inward,
and nothing on earth except u mine
could have produced that result. The
effect of the explosion of mine on Il
ship is as well known as the effects of
a poison on the human system.
1.-The wreck of the Maine was the
mute, incontestible evidence OF the ex-
plosion of n mine and after exhaust
ing all available evidence, the board
has so reported"
Methodist Resolutions for Prest. Mckinley.
New York, March 3l.--Patriotic SEN
timents broke out strongly at the very
beginning of the session of the New
York conference of the Methodist
Hurst alluded to the war situation In
his opening address, and Rev. j. w.
Macomber amid tremendous applause
suggested that the American flag be
displayed on the top of the church
during the continuation of the confer
ence. A resolution commencing the
action of President Mckinley during
the present crisis. was adopted and
ordered to be telegraphed to the chief
executive.
Bishop Hurst in his address said:
I'VE are today overshadowed and sur
rounded by something of war cloud.
have never been prouder of the
pecially Of the members of our own
church. than l am today. We are all
united in a peace-loving nd liberty
loving President Our President
knows what war means to the hum
blest citizen. His ideas on the subject
were not gathered by reading about 1t.
He carried musket and shouldered a
knapsack as a private soldier He
saw the horrors OF war.
81 know he sympathizes with that
little island TO the south of us. I am
sure that II we exercise little pa
thence and little GOODNESS and put a
little trust In those In authority all
will come out right"
The following resolution was then
adopted:
1.-The bishop and members of the
New York annual conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. assem-
bled In this city of New York send
their greeting to the Christian chief OF
our Christian nation, assuring him of
their confidence In his patriotism,
courage and capacity, AID that they
implore the God Of nations to guard
his person and grant him the wisdom
that shall enable him to lead the re-
public out OF darkness into light, out
OF discord into honorable peace. out of
consenting co-partnership with bar
barous cruelty into active alliance
with Christian civilization"