The San Francisco call., 1898-04-14
WOULD ENLARGE
 THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Majority Report Of the Senate Foreign Rela- tiOnS Committee Ask ing Intervention in Cuba.

4 lIOIS AOiIIlIIlltSS HSk < ing Intervention in Y Cuba.
 WASHINGTON, April 13.-In the . Senate to-day Davis. chairman of 7, the Foreign Relations Committee, submitted the majority report It v gives a very thorough review of , the entire situation and strong ' presentation of the facts which v had led the committee to its con- clusions. The report takes up the v Maine disaster as the leading topic v for consideration and plunges into v that question in its first sentence. v Here are the principal points in the report:
 The destruction of the United States Y battle-ship Maine, of two of her officers 4 and of 264 of her crew in the harbor of A Havana on the night of February 15 1898. excited to an unprecedented de- Y gree the compassion and resentment of 4 the American people.
 4 Manifestations cf that resentment A were suspended, although the feeling was not allayed by the self-restraint ' of our people, who determined to hold 4 their judgment in suspense concerning 4 their ultimate action until an official investigation should disclose the cause of that great disaster and enable them 4 by direct or circumstantial testimony 4 to impute the responsibility therefor.
 That investigation has been made It was conducted with judicial thor oughness and deliberation. The diff 4 culty of demonstrating by conclusive proof the cause of that sinister event was the usual one of exposing plotted and -~-sterious crimes. No such diffi- 4 culty, however, obscures its official and 4 responsible cause.
 With animus by Spain so plainly ap- parent that no one can even plausiby
 deny its existence 1t is merely one req 4 son for the conclusion to which the in- < vestigating mind must come in consid-
 ering the entire subject of the relations of the United States with their Govern ment. It is the opinion of your com 4 mittee that the destruction of the Maine
 was compassed either by the official act of the Spanish authorities or was made Y possible by a negligence on their part 4 so willing and gross as to be equiva- lent in culpability to positive criminal
 action.
 4 When property ana lte are destroyed v by an act which the exercise of dili- 4 gence by the person whose duty it is to
 use it should have prevented the hap pening of such an event 1t Is sufficient 4 proof that that diligence was not em- ployed. The time of the explosion it. 4 self must have been calculated for the moment when the Maine should swing within the destructive radius of the 4 mine.
 The duplcity, perfidy and cruelty of the Spanish character, as they always
 d aYf1or ctt tod otf to continue by their manifestations dur 4 ing the present war in Cuba. All these < circumstances considered cumulatively
 warrant the conclusion that the de-
 structon of the Maine was compassed 4 either by the official act of the Spanish authorities (and the ascertainment of % the particular person Is not materiaD,
 or was made possible by a negligence on Y their part so willing and gross to be 4 equivalent in culpability to positive
 criminal action.
 Conflict of opinion among jurists upon A the subject of intervention is very great. Arntz maintains that the right of inter- 4 vention exists when state violates or threatens the rights of another state. while, on the other hand, GuZot declares 4 that one state has the right to inter
 vene in another state only when it's own
 safety renders it indispensable. Between 4 these extremities of opinion, differences among publfcists are various and ire
 concilable. Professor Hall and others A support the right of intervention in cases similar to that of Cuba.
 4 If these opinions state the correct rules, as we believe they do. the right 4 of Intervention by the United States in 4 the present instance is undoubtable. 4 The balance of power and the Monroe doctrine are both policies of interven- 4 tion, to be effected in certain contingen-
 cies in furtherance of national politics. Y and to justify which, no canon of inter A national law was ever invoked. The former has profoundly affected the rela- 4 tions of the European states and the in- dependence of many of those sovereign ties. The latter has kept the powers of 4 Europe out of the American continent
 ever since it was promulgated. It was * distinct announcement that the United 4 States would intervene under certain. ex- pressed circumstances in the affairs of < every Central American and South
 American state. The United States did Y intervene by threat and show of force 4 in the affairs of Mexico and France and compelled the evacuation Of that repub- 4 lie by a European power whose own 4 prior intervention in Mexican affairs had overthrown a republic and established a 4 monarch upon the ruins. No publicist has ever asserted that either of these policies is part of the law of nations 4 Further justification for interven- ton in the present case is found 4 in the fact that 1t is the only means of 4 extirpating an otherwise incurable and
 dangerous evil. The conduct of the Eu- N ropean powers respecting Turkey has 4 been pursuant of the policy which inn v pels one nation to intervene in the affairs 4 of another state to stop cruelty and mas
 sacre and if necessary, to depose 1t 4 from sovereignty The fact that Spain < is a Christian state does not give her greater warrant to exterminate her sub 4 iects than Mohammedan Turkey pos A sessed to exterminate hers. The recent v interventions of the European powers m % favor of Turkey and against Greece in v her endeavor to assist the Cretan insur- gents is familiar history. so. also, IS 4 the intervention of the same powers ' which checked the advance or the armies < of Turkey into Greece. . :, We cannot consent upon any condi- ' tions that depoulated portions of Cuba % shall be colonized by Spain any more , than she could be allowed to found a ' new colony in other parts of this hemi- 4 sphere or the islands thereof Either act ' is regarded by the United states as dan < gerous to peace and safety.
 A Intervention is justifiable and neces- sary for the following reasons: The Y present situation in Cuba has become A a menace to the peace of the world, and v especially to the peace and safety of the < limited States Spain has bid for Euro < pean intervention thus ihr, .h, appa1r,entIy pp1,ey %- which make such intervention possible v should be removed at once. For nearly Y three years the hostilities Tn Cuba and A the nsnish administration of that island ' have involved this Government in peril 4 ous relations with Spa1n and raised 4 questions of right ana responsipiiity In ' which no prospect of settlement is ap- ~ parent. So long as these conditions are allowed 10 remain unsettled they will Y increase an irritation which has already 4 become intolerable and which will ulti- ' mately require adjustment by measures 7, much more vigorous than now seem ade- , onate to compose existing difficulties. Y Snain has failed to perform her treaty \ obligations and other international dutIes 4 toward the United States. To give a 4 would necessarily extend this paper. They are the familiar matters of cur ' rent history. American Sl citizens have ' shadow of proof, and have been pro- ' ceeded against by violent irregular forms