The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18
Danger Turks IN DELAY
United States Must Act at Once
or Spain Will Steal
March,.
HOUSE NOW The CYN0SURE.
All Eyes are Upon ItHonor of American Nation Now Bal
auced in Its Hands-Conference Would Mean In
definite Delay-span Using the Time to
Perfect Her Army and Navy-Speaker
Reed Does Not Favor Recog-
milton of Republic of
Cuba.

tonic and driven Cubans and Spaniards
together into the gulf. Whether we
have any Sheridans or Jscksons now is
not disclosed, but the emergency gener-
ally brings the man.
Successful wars are fought by the
young. Napolean was conqueror of
Italy at twenty-seven, ard Alexander
died at thirty-three. At the beginning
OF the war for the Union Lincoln was
tifty-two, Grant thirty-nine, Logan
thirty-tive, Mcpherson thirty-three,
Sheridan thirty-one, Sherman forty-one,
Fitzpatrick twenty-five, Custer twenty
two, Rosecrans forty-two, Thomas forty
five, Meade forty-six, Stonewall jackson
thirty seven, while Lee and Johnston,
the oldest on either side to reach dis
tinction, were tifty.four. Farragut, the
veteran of the navy, was sixty, and
Wordcn, the hero of the Monitor, was
forty-,hree. General Miles and Commo-
dore Schlcy will each be fifty mine this
year, but the treaty of peace will no
doubt be signed before their birthdays
come
Considering the immense importance
OF time and the dangers and complica-
ton that accumulate with every hour Of
delay, the prol ,nged, ,diffuse and leisurcly
interlocutUn in the Senate today was
absolutely uninteligibe. Were it for a
struggle for party advantage it could be
comprehended; but partisanship is OBJ
acknowledgements, Populists and Re
pubicans are united.
Not only are the Spaniards obtaining
great advantage by this waste and con-
sumption of the hours, but the business
OF this country suffers acutely from the
uncertainty and indecision of Congress
upon trivial and unimportant details OF
phraseology, punctuation and etiquette
1t is reported that the President is
anxious for immediate action one way
or the other, and the House is so in-
patient that it refused to adjourn yester-
day, but took recess till 10 o'clock
Monday morning. The effect is to con-
tinue this Legislative day over Sunday,
in order to be ready to act upon the
resolution passed by the Senate at the
earliest moment, and without interfer-
ence from the regular order of business
The friends OF recognition are sangulne
Of success, and its opponents intimate
that should the President consider the
Senate resolution an infringement upon
his Constitutional prerogative he will be
at liberty to ignore and disregard it and
act in his own time and his own way.
In the tumult and clash and collusiOn
of opinion in such Il passionate crisis
changes are kaleidoscope in their rapidity
and it is impossible to fOretell the action
of the House, because the members have
formulated no course and have no fixed
purpose. The tendency will be to dis
pose of lhe matter at once on any basis
which does not require too great sacri-
flee of pride and self respect.
The House can either concur in the
S nate amendment on Monday or it can
disagree and ask for a conference. Con-
ference committees are constituted with
majority from each House who are
friendly to the measure as it passed the
body by which they are appointed. They
can only consider such matters as have
been before the Houses. so that the scope
of thier actionis defined and limited.
The adoption of the Forakcr-Turpic
amendment by Il majority large" than its
champions anticipated is signal victory
for the adversaries of the administration,
and renders the final result more uncer-
tain. The personal equation comes in to
complcate the issue. Great efforts will
be made to prevent concurrence by the
House and to throw the subject into con-
ference. Such struggles usually end in
compromise. Between recognition and
the Presidential protocol the Davis rcso-
luton is the logical outcome.
The Holy Alliance roorbacks and mys-
terious threats of Euronean intervention
are impolitic contrivancrs and instead OF
exciting fear serve on Y to increase exas-
peration. Their authors are not sagac-
ious. They are not aware OF the temper
of Congress. This is an American affair.
Senator Teller and.Senator Allen had the
correct diagnosis today when they de-
cared that foreign interference would be
resented as an intolerable nffront and
would, only increase and augment the
severity of our final adjust ment with !
Spain.