The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-15

ing, which is a branch of the treasury
department.
At 1855 o'clock p. m. the fbin was laid
aside for the day and the senate went
into executive session, a~djourning at
4:45 O'Clock p. m.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
General G~rosvenor, of Ohio, now gen.
orally regarded as the spokesman of
the president on the floor of the house,
late this afternoon in reply to AN at
tack Upon the policy of the adminiStra-
ton interpreted the recommendations
or the presidents message to a
request for authority to use the army
and navy of the United States to es-
tablish on the island Of Cuiba a govern
ment independent of Spain. 1t was re-
garded as am exceedingly lmpd Eant
and significant announcement.
In the brief debate today the open
ing guns of the contest that begins to-
morrow were fired. Broadsides were
exchanged and then the house adjourn
ed.
Mr.. Lentz, an Ohio democrat, who
drew the fire of eneral GroSvenOr
last Thursday returned to the assault
again today attacking he termed.
the "~vaciapating'' policy of the presi-
dent, the midnight conferences at the
White house with Senator Elkins and
] John J. McCook, and asserting that
the presidents recommendations really
meant that the United States should
cOerce the Cuban insurgents into an &C
| ceptance of Spain's scheme Of auton-
omy. He taunted the republicans be
cause the president had no declared
for the independence of Cuba, which
the republican platform had demand
ed. ut remains to be SEEM said he,
whether tine majority Of the house can
be lined up and whipped in."
he declared should act and could bet
ter act h the executive "formulat-
ing his policy at midnight behind clos
ed doors with the aid of plutOcracy."
"A stable government? What do
you propose nOw?"
Let this congress give to the presi-
dent THE army and the ANY, he says,
and / will go over there and force the
Cuban patriots, force the Cuban heroes
to submit to "a stable government at
the hands of Spain, because the queen
+, regent has already advised the admin
istration that SHE has ordered a sus-
pension of hostilities.' She cannot
order a suspension as against the in
]surgents. She has mot among all her
bull fighters anl fbullies manhood
enough to order a suspension of hOstil-
titles ON the insurgent side. This ad-
m~inistration, with all this vacillating
| pOHIty WIllCI 40 ulISlSC Wy Iut SuAu-
C1go Tribune, AN administration paper,
asks us to put the army and navy in
it's hands ITO go oven and punish the
| Cubans after three years of the most
heroic fight for liberty THAT any people
ever made ON the ace of the earth.
I say it us an outrage, it is a stencil
in the nostrils of every decent Ameri-
cam"
Mr.. Hepburn. republican, of Iowa,
-oaIo n D;,-;t .o~LJ irkJi rp n WI raD1y
d~enouncing the intim ation of sue a
Policy as little short of scoundreliSm
General Grosvenor followed. He said
in part:
Il wish simply to say that the presi-
DENT of the United States has asked
of congress the power ito use the army
and the navy for the purpose of estaIb-
fishing in the island of Cuba an indie
pendent government. I state, that the
president Of the United States has ask
ed for the use of the army and navy
to establish ON the island of Cuba an
independent government and has said
SO in the plainest kin of English Ian
guage (cries of where ON the demo-
cratic side.) After a. great deal of rtrib-
ulation ] arm going to give % the
gentlemen ON the other side a demon
stration of every statement which I
made. You will hear this language
used by the president and I will leave
it to the most acute analytical mind
on the other side to say that if that is
not a proposition to establish On the
island Of Cuba a government indepen-
dent of Spain:
I" In veiw of these facts and of these
considerations. 1 ask congress to au-
thorize and empower the president to
take to ecure full and final
termination of hostilities etween the
government IF Spain and the people
of Cuba and ito secure in the island
the establishment of a stable govern
ment, capable of maintaining order and
observing it's International obliga-
TONS
THE very language of the president
as understood by every intelligent mar
Of thought is that the object and pur-
pose of using force is to establish a
government with International obliga-
tions n with the power ITO discharge
those International obligations. So
the whole appeal of the gentlemen from
Ohio is hke the picture of a painted
ship upon a painted ocean. daughter
ON republican side.)
THE time is coming very rapidly"
said MIR. i'm conclusion.
1t will be here ] trust, tomorrow, when
under the guidance of the committee
on foreign affairs, this house will take
action, and I will suggest to the gentle
iIICil ou UIIC Quiet STU U1dI V1Sre VIII
be a degree of patriotism, a degree of
unanimity Of purpose, a degree of
oneness in action that will surprise the
gentleman when he looks over the votes
that Will be taken here tomorrow"
Great applause on the republican
side.)
Mr.. Bailey, the Democratic leader.
replied to General enor in a brief
speech which aroused intense enthus-
| iQSm on tho 6amncratia Si6Q Tf 10
somewhat remarkable, he said. that
h president in sending to congress
one of the most important messages
upo n of the most exciting que
tionS (which had been AefOre the
country in years had concluded with a
Recommendation SO ambiguous that
it could fbe the occasion of controversy.
Other portions of the message showed
that the president was a master of
clear what he meant. If the president
ing his recommendations ne had done
SO in words that taxed the ingenuity