New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-04-20
Both Houses
axe Action.
The House and Senate Each Pass Strong
Resolutions: Declaring for Inter
& ventiOn.
The Senate: Resolution is by Far Far: the q.
hs. Strongest. 1t Recognizes the 1oung .
Republic.
The Government of Spain is Directed to
Relinquish its Authority in Cuba
at Once.


their say as to what should be done with
Spain and as to what were best for Gu
ba. .sa
The senate resolution passed on Sa-
turday; the house resolution three days
earlier. ..' =..s-s5zs. 5
The majority for each was overwhelm-
ing, that of the house being endorsed by
a vote of 1922 to 10, and that OF the SEN
ate by vote of 81 to 81.
Both declare for armed intervention,
and each seems to make war inevitable.
The senate resolution, however, Is
clearer and more independent.
The house plan leaves the public in
doubt as to what will be done. 1t was
prepared by the administration commit
tee and is uncertain and ambiguous in
tone.
The senate draft is outspoken and in
capable of misconstruction.
1t doesn't leave any loop holes through
which the president may continue his
policy of temporizing and delay.
It is not only for war on account Of
Spanish butcheries and the loss of the
Maine, but is for independence as we'll
independence for people who have
been struggling for liberty against great
odds for years.
Furthermore i makes provision
against any scheme of annexation or con-
troll in case the island is eventually freed
from Spanish mis1ule.
Should it he adopted by the house,
nobody need be in doubt as to where the
country is at.
Spain will either have to back down
at once or take the consequences on sea
as we'll as on land.
In the House.
The only remarkable thing about the
house resolution was the almost unani-
nifty with which it was passed.
The conduct of the representatives
during the brief discussion, which pre-
ceeded the final vote, was not of a char
acter to give dignity to so important an
occasion.
The few short speeches that were
made failed absolutely to rise even to
the dignity of country lyceum oratory.
Not remarkable speech during the en-
tire debate, and yet the subject was one
of the greatest that has ever enlisted the
attention of congress.
The Republicans were jealous of any
Democratic advantage and declined ev-
en- to he fair. A row, OF course, was the
result.
When the democratic minority report
was offered, it was defeated by strictly
partisan vote. This report embodied a
resolution for recognition of the Cuban
republic.
When the final vote came on the reso-
lutions reported by the Republican ma
jority, the Democrats we've manly and
patriotic enough to sink their partisan
ship, forget the animosity of the parlia-
mentary struggle of the day, and give
the resolutions their united vote.
The resolutions as they passed were as
follows: .- &<f @@
Whereas, The government of Spain
for three years past has been waging
war on TIE Island of Cuba against rev.
olution by inhabitants thereof without
making any substantial progress toward
the suppression Of said revolution, and
has conducted. this warfare in manner
contrary to the laws of nations, by
methods inhuman and uncivil1zed, Gauss
ing the death by starvation of more
than 100000 innocent non-combatants,
the victims being for the most part help.
less women and children, .inflcting
intolerable injury to the CONNER
cial interests of the United States, JIM
volving the destruction of lives and
property Of many of our citizens, en-
failing the expenditure of millions of
dollars IN patrolling DIR coasts and pol
icing the high seas in order to maintain
our. neutrality; and,
Whereas, This long series of losses,
injuries and burdens for which Spain is
responsible has eliminated in the de-
struction Of the United Stares battleship
Maine IN the harbor Of Havana and in
the death Of 266 of our seamen;
Resolved, That the president of the
presidents hereby authorized and direct
ee to intervene at once to stop the war
in Cuba, to the end and with the purpose
Of securing permanent peace and order
there and establishing, by the.free action
of the people thereof, a stable and inde-