Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-30
WHEELING, w VA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80 1898
aba. Spain cannot be trusted to

!, 81 aba. Spain cannot be trusted to
- p her promise, and we cannot I'M
4ertake to compel her to. Aside from
mat poor Cuba has paid larger price
for liberty than we did and she must
De free. | shall oppose any plan that
looks to forcing Cuba in the future to
pay Spain IN cash for her liberty. Her
land Is full of graves and her future
generations must not be mortgaged.
1t is claimed by some that Cuba
ought to be willing to pay SPANS
Cuban war debt. Cuba to pay for the
powder and lead that killed her peo-
pie! to pay for the torches that
burned her homes? to pay the back
wages OF the Spanish soldiers who
| ravished their wives and daughters?
Never. by any vote of mine
Some tell us we must wait for Span
lsh elections. If here elections are as
rotten as her dipomacies, we cannot
walt. 1t is claimed that if we will
wait until the Spanish elections, Sagas-
Ia Will give all concessions Are we
10 be fooled twice with the same trick?
is DE LONE so soon forgotten. Some
tell us we are not prepared When
snail We be better prepared. viii it
be when the Spanish fiotilla has cross
ed the water and rests complacently
on her base of supplies within five or
SIX hours distance of our fleet? We
know now officially what we have be-
lieyed for forty days
SHALL WE WAIT UNTIL
she can destroy more of our ships and
men? God forbid that such a crime
should be charged to US Let us
awake Shake off the Chinese mar
cotlc that locks us in droWsy Incidence,
murmuring Peace at any price;
awake to glorious war against ma
ton that burns homes and murders
women and children, awake to glorious
war that seeks no gain fU' us in treas
ury or territory. but war to drive
the oppressOr from the continent, to
set the Cuban flag in the sky forever
and war that will help us for gener
atoms to come by giving notice that
the honor of our flag and the lives of
our. citizens must be respected by the
nations of the world" (Applause).
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, March 29-The House
to-day quietly proceeded with the or
der of the day-the consideration of
private bills No opportunity was af-
forded under the rules of debating the
all absorbing topic, but members stood
about the cloak rooms and Hobbies all
day long discussing the situation. The
most intense feeling was manifested
Representative Hartman, of Mon
tana introduced a resolution declaring
that the government of the United
States hereby recognizes the independ-
ence of the Republic of Cuba and
pledges the full measure of its support
for the maintenance of that independ-
ence.
Representative Marsh, Of Illinois,
chairman of the House committe on
militia, introduced the following joint
resolution declaring war between the
government of Spain and It's depend
encies and the United States and her
territories 1t is as follows:
THAT war be and the same is here
by declared to exist between the gov
eminent of Spain and her dependen-
cies and the United States and her ter
ritories, and that the President of the
United States is hereby authorized to
use the whole land and naval force of
the United States, including the mil
tia and the naval militia thereof to
carry the same into effect"