The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-14
TWO REPORTS SENT IN
Minority Holds Out for Independ.
ence of Cuba.
The DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE.

the senate Comm ittee Foreign Az
fairs-Action ON the Report Goes Over
for a Day-Msjority and Minority Re
ports to the House.
Washington, April A.-When the Gu
ban resolution was presented in the
house row ensued over parliamentary
rules. There were half a dozen per-
sonal collisions. Brumm, Rep, OF
Pennsylvania, and Bartlett. DEM. of
Georgia, were involved. At last GEN
eral Henderson, Rep. OF Iowa, the one
legged veteran, standing in the jostling.
fighting crowd. in clear. ringing tones
called for order, reminding members
that it was a disgrace to the American
congress. W
The rule to consider the Cuban reso-
luton was adopted by the house-290
to 0.
Washington, April IA The senate
committee on foreign affairs reported
a resolution calling for immediate
armed Intervention In Cuba and the
establishment of stable, independent
government The report was made by
Senator Davis, chairman of that COM
mittee, and was a very thorough re-
view of the entire situation, and
strong presentation of the facts which
has led the committee to its conclu-
sions. The report takes up the Maine
disaster as the leading topic for consid-
GRAFTON and plunges into that question
in its first sentence, which is as follows:
'The destruction of the United States
battleship Maine, of two of her officers
and of 264 of her crew in the harbor of
Havana on the night of Feb. Is, 1898,
excited to an unprecedented degree the
compassion and resentment of the
American people,"
Tlre Feeling Not AlIayed.
Continuing, the report says: Mani
festations of that resentment were sus-
pended, although the feeling was not
allayed, by the sef-restraint of our
people, who determined to hold their
judgment In suspense concerning their
ultimate action until an official investi-
cation should disclose the cause of that
great disaster and enable them by di-
rect or circumstantial testimony to i'm
pur the responsibility therefor. That
investigation has been made. 1t was
conducted with judicial thoroughness
and deliberation. The difficulty of dem
onstrating by conclusive proof the eff
cient personal cause of that sinister
event was the usual one of exposing
plotted and mysterious crimes No such
difficulty however, obscures its official
and responsible cause"
Animus of Spain.
The oorop,ittaa cav that tba avnIooio,
itself, of the Maine, was linked with
series Of precedent transactions (which
cannot in reason be disconnected from
it."
with animus by Spain, so plainly
apparent that no one can even plausi-
bly, deny it's existence, it is merely one
reason for the conclusion to which the
investigating mind must come in con-
sidering the entire subject Of the rela-
tions of the United States with that
government. 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 a negligence on
their part so willing and gross as to be
equivalent in culpability to positive
criminal action. When property and
life are destroyed by an act which the
exercise of due diligence by the person
whose duty 1t is to use 1t could have
prevented the happening of such an
event Is sufficient proof that that dill
gence was not employed.
Time of Explosion Calculated.
"The time of the explosion" says the
report, must have been calculated for
the moment when the Maine should
the mine"
Concluding this portion of its pre-
sentation, the committee says: "Tbe
duplcity. perfidy and cruelty of the
Spanish character, as they always have
been, are demonstrated still to continue
by their manifestations during the
present war in. Cuba. All these cir
cumstances considered cumulatively,
warrant the conclusion that the de-
struction of the Maine was compassed
either by the official act of the Spanish
authorities (and the ascertainment Of
the particular person is not materially.
or was made possible by a negligence
on their part, so willing and SO gross,
as to be equivalent in culpability to
positive criminal action"
Goes Over for n Day.
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forty-seven minutes. Hoar demanded
that the resolution lie over under the
rules for day. Davis said there was
no disposition to unduly press the Ques-
ton, though It would be pressed as rap
idly as possible. The speaking would
Itself be sufficient to throw the case
over for a day. The chair decided
Hoar's point of order well taken.
Turpie presented the report Of the
minority of the committee as follows:
''The undersigned members Of he
committee on foreign relations cordially
concur in the report made upon the Gu
ban resolution, but we favor the i'm
mediate recognition Of the Republic Of
Cuba. as organised In that island, as a
free. independent and sovereign power
among the nations Of the world"
It was signed by Turpie. Hills Nc
Daniel and Foraker.
TWO RESOLUTIONS IN HOUSE
nemoorafio Members Declare for Rooowni-