Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1898-04-14

United States is hereby authorized and
directed to extend immediate relief to
the starving people of Cuba.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Senate Committse's Report Goes Thor.
oughly Into tho Cuban Matter.
The report of the senate committee
was made by Senator Davis, chairman
of the senate foreign relations commit.
tee and was very thorough review Of
the entire situation and strong pre-
committee to its conclusions The re-
port takes up the Maine disaster as the
leading topic for consideration 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,"
Contintinuing the report says:
manifestations of that resentment
were suspended, although the feeling
was not allayed by the self restraint of
our people, who determined to hold
their Judgment in suspense concerning
their ultimate action until an official
investigation should disclose the cause
of that great disaster and enable them
by direct or circumstantial testimony
to impute the responsibility therefor.
''That investigation has been made.
It was conducted with judicial thor
Oughness and deiberation. The diff.
Guilty of demonstrating by conclusive
proof the efficient personal cause Of
exposing plotted and mysterious
crimes. No such difficulty, however,
oUscures its official and responsible
cause"
Culpably Negligent .t Least.
The committee say that the explosion
itself of the Maine, was linked with a
series of precedent transactions, which
cannot in reason be disconnected
tr IN it.
With animus by Spain so plainly
apparent that no one can even plausibly
deny its existence, it is merely one rea.
sxn for the conclusion to which the In.
vestigating mind must come in consld'
ering the entire subject of the relations
of the United States with that govern.
ment. 1t is the opinion Of your COM
mittee that the destruction of the Maine
was compassed either by the official act
Of the Spanish authorities or was made
possible by q negligence on their part
so willing and gross as to be equivalent
in culpability to positive criminal &C.
ton"
when property and life are de.
stroyed by an act which the exercise OF
due diligence by tho person whose duty
1t 10 to use it could have prevented the
happening Of such an event is sufficient
proof that that diligence was not en-
ployed."
1.-The time Of the explosion" says the
report, "must have been calculated for
the moment when the Maine should
swing within the destructive radius OF
the mine."
Concluding this portion Of its pres
entation the committee says: "Ihe
duplicity, -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 negligence
on their part, so willing and gross as
to be equivalent in oulpability to posi-
tive criminal action"
Ought to Recognise Independence.
In taking up the more general sub
| jeots the committee expresses the opin.
ion that the United States ought at
once to recognize the Independence OF
the people of Cuba and also ought to
intervene to the end that the war and
its unexampled atrocities shall cease
and that such independence shall be-
come q settled political fact at the
earliest possible moment, by the estab'
Ishment, by the Iroo aCtlon OF sne peo-
pie of Cuba, when such action can be
had, OF government independent in
fact and form.
The Slaughter OF Non. Combstapts.
The committee asserts that the gov
ernment Of Spain has grown weaker
while the cause Of the insurgents has
grown stronger and says the few rein
forcements now being sent to Cuba do
not supply . tthe Of Spain's losses
caused by battle and disease. Calling
attention to the policy Of Spain the
committee says that over 100000 per
sons have been killed 90 result Of this
sction and adds: ''There has been no