Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-14
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Foreign Relations Committee Sub.
mits Cuban Resolutions.
SPAIN MUST WITHDRAW,
Asserts That the Island Is and of Right
Ought to BE Free-No Recognition.
Guilt Is on spain-Cuban Reso-
lutions Go Over.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The follow
ing is the majority resolutions reported
to the senate by Senator Davis imme-
diately upon the convening of the SEN
ate at noon today:
Whereas, The abhorrent conditions
which have existed for more than three
years in the island of Cuba, SO near our
own borders, have shocked the moral
sense OF the people of the United States,
have been disgrace to Christian civ
lllzatlon, eliminating, as they have, in
the destruction of United States bat
tleship, with 26e of its officers and crew,
while on friendly visit to the harbor
OF Havana, and cannot longer be en-
dured, as has been set forth by the
president of the United States in his
message to congress of April IL, 1898,
upon which the action of congress was
invited therefore be it
r solved, First-That the people of
the island of Cuba OF right ought to be
free and independent.
Second-That it is the duty Of the
United States to demand, and the gov.
ernment of the United States does here
by, that the government of Spain at
once relinquish its authority and gov
ernment in the island of Cuba and
withdraw its land and naval forces
from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Third-That the president of the
United States, and he is hereby, directed
and empowered to use the entire land
and naval forces of the United States
and to call into actual service of the
United States the militia of the several
states to such an extent as may be nec-
essary to carry these resolutions into ef-
feet.
Minority Report.
Senator Iurpe presented the minor.
ity report of the committee as follows !:
The undersigned members of the
committee on foreign relations cordially
concur in the report made upon the
Cuban resolutions, but we favor the
immediate recognition Of the republic
of Cuba, as organized in that island, as
free, independent and sovereign
power among the nations of the world.
It was signed by Senators Turpie,
Mills, Daniel and Foraker.
Spain Bitterly Arraigned.
The report of the senate committee
on foreign relations on the Cuban situa-
ton was maze by Senator Davis, chair
man Of that committee, and was Il very
thorough review of the entire situation,
and a strong presentation of the facts
which had led the committee to its con.
nj, Tho toll
disaster as the leading topic for con
sideration and plunges into that uues-
ton in it's first sentence, whichis as fol-
lows: 1.-The destruction of the United
States battleship Maine, of two of her
officers and of 2G4 of her crew in the
harbor OF Havana on the night of Feb
ruary 10. 1888, excited to an repreceden-
ted degree the compassion and resent
ment of the American people. ("
Continuing, the report says: "Mani-
festations of that resentment
were suspended, although the
feeling was not allayed by the self-re-
straint Of our people, who determined
to hold their judgment in suspense con-
cerning their ultimate action until an
OillSlul luN SotlS u1SClOSe CQ0
cause of that great disaster and enable
them by direct or circumstantial testi-
mony to impute the responsibility there
for. That investigation has been made.
1t was conducted with judicial thor
oughness and deliberation. The diff
Guilty of demonstrating by conclusive
proof the efficient personal cause of that
sinister event was the usual one of ex-
posing plotted and mysterious crimes.
No such difficulty, however, obscures
its official and responsible cause"
The committee says that the explosion
itself of the Maine was linked with a
series of precedent transactions, which
cannot in reason be disconnected from
it. with animus by Spain so plainly
apparent that no one can plausibly deny
its existence, it is merely one reason for
the conclusion to which the Investigate
ing mind must come in considering
the entire subject of the relations of
the United States with that govern
ment. 1t is the opinion of your
committee that the destruction of the
Maine was compassed either by the
official act of the Spanish authorities or
was made possible by negligence on