The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-08


whole world that there was danger. Of muir
DER 10 American representatives III Iupar
or there was put up on the other side the
danger itself We can have no more tTag-
edy along this line, until war comes to put
the whole thing into the hands of tragedy.
Now then. i will say that over against
the statement of the insult to Spain that
was deliberately hurled at her by the Amer
lean people. that the administration was
compelled to put the chances of murder.
not that the government of Spain would do
it, but the government was so powerlesS to
maintain order as that The ships of friend
~ nation are unsafe in her ports and might
be overwhelmed by mobs and murder have
taken place. suppose the message had gone
to Congress yesterday. and suppose that
last night the blood of that distinguished
ard chivalrous gentleman from Virginia
had soaked the soil OF Cuba. What would
have been the verdict of the American peo-
pie against the administration? VI there is
a man i'm this house so forgetful Of his dig
nifty as an American citizen of heshumbIest
character, TO intimate that the President
has been guilty of Juggling 4 thing like
this, / will not answer 1t.
WHY HE is GLAD
MIR. Speaker, / did not suppose that in
this American Congress it was necessary
that | should make an explanation in order
to defend the President of the United States
from insinuation like that j am glad
the purpose of the opposition is now fully
and clearly disclosed. l am delighted that
because of little change in the programme
wholly unimportant, except as ii strength
ems the daily algmenting powers of the
United States-a change made under stress
of circumstances that would have controlled
any civilized nation-I am delighted that the
gentleman from Ohio has given us notice
mat every occurrence now and here
after is to be taken advantage of
lG lighted at t6e g puFpGssn f aoa am IS
Bailey has TWO or three times
now on each succeeding day pointed out
Will Il lirr1,f fl.f "a
ences of opinion on the Republican side
of the House. / suggest to the gentleman
that when he opens recruiting office to
get volunteers 10 pass under his banner to
night the administration he had better make
a contract for the rent of his quarters from
day to day. as he will probably not need
them very long in the future. Here comes
a matter which the whole world will say
governed the administration as it ought to
nave been governed and the world will be
notified tonight chat the President has
been assailed by distinguished representa-
tive on this floor, his motive impugned, his
integrity censured, the whole action charged
as being instigated by criminal purpose, and
this is body that boasts that it is going
to stand by the administration.
Now, gentlemen, let me tell you another
thing This war will be fought under tho
banner of the Republican administration OF
THIS government or Ii will never be fought
at all. We may differ about how it ought
TO be inaugurated. and honestly. Some of
you may have an opinion different from
mine, and honor you for that But when
the time comes the commander-in-chief of
the army of the United States will command
the column that will crush the power of
Spain or it never will be crushed. Again,
you will discover as you go along that the
enemy on the other side. the opposition, are
putting forward matters of legal interest,
taking position to-day that it did not take
two years ago. 1t is not yet two years
since it was proclaimed by the great Demo-
cratic lawyers of the Congress of the United
States that there was no power in the Con-
gress of the United States to recognize the
lndependenee of q foreign country; labored
arguments filled the Congressional Record
within the power Of Congress, but lay ex-
ciusively under the Constitution in the
hands of the President. But however that
may be. when war is declared the President
or the United States becomes at once vested
by the Constitution with the power to con-
elude treaties with foreign countries, ana
he is at all times the commander-in-chief of
the armies of the United States.
THINKS THERE WILL BE WAR
II have no more doubt" Mr.. Grosvenor
concluded, that we are going to war than
l have that we will live until next week.
l may be mistaken. / pray to God that I
may be mistaken But believe, Mr.. Speak
err that we will go to war on a declaration
substantially of Congress. Myinhuence will
be given for peace for whatever it is worth.
My influence will be given to avert war,
but the time is up, in my humble Judgment,
when we can avert it, and if peace shall
prevail II AluSI cOIile IECtn the actlOn OF an
other country rather than our own Our
position is taken and we cannot recede.
But let the policy of this government be
such that when the tocsin of war shall
have sounded all of the civilized world will
say America is right. Great applause)
After Mr.. Grosvenor concluded his re-
marks Mr. Bailey took the floor for brief
speech, in which he quoted several utter
ances of Mr. Grosyenor to show that the
Buckeye statesman had shifted his position
He first quoted from one of Mr. GrosvenorS
speeches of a week ago i'm which he de-
clared that the administration would when
the time for action came. be for indie
pendence and armed intervention; two DAYS
later he said, in an interview independ-
ence without armed intervention. and now
he said armed Intervention without indie
pendence.
Mr.. Grosvenor caused some merriment on
the Democratic side when he said the state
ments quoted were substantially in the
same direction
Turning his attention to some of Mr. Gros-
venor's remarks. Mr.. Bailey Indignantly re-
PEELED the idea that if war came it was to be
a Republican war. 1t would be a war of
the people Of the United States against
Spanish tyranny on the Island of Cuba"
said he, amid tumultuous applause
After some further debate on the bill Mr..
Hull's motion to strike out all but the first
two sections of the bill was carried. The
bill was then recommtted-l50 to CT. Al $50
D. m. the House adjourned until Monday.