The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-04
Affairs In the Senate This Week
Will BriStle With War.
THE PEACE ELEMENT
SOME "LAST EXTREMITY MEN
IN THE SENATE.
Senate Prepared to Wait For the
Presidents Message Even Until
Wednesday, and Under Great
Pressure There Might Be Delay
Beyond That Time-The House.

Washington, April 3.-The expecta.
ton in the senate is that the report Of
the committee on foreign relations or
the Cuban situation will be made tc
the, senate not later than Wednesday
and If the report should be made al
that time the probabilities are that il
will engage the greater share of the
senate's time for the remainder of the
week. The committee will make an
EFFORT to secure action upon the resolu-
tons, which it will report without hav.
ing them debated, but with very little
probability of success.
Undoubtedly, a large majority of the
members of the senate are favorable
to some declaration apropos To the
Cuban situation, but there is certain 10
be difference of opinion on the course
TO be pursued and the language to be
used, which will be sufficient to pre-
vent immediate action except in one
contingency. This contingency is the
possibility of an agreement to details
between the president and the com
mittee. If the committees report
should prove to be in accord with the
presidents recommendation in all es-
sential particular, the senate likely
would adopt the resolutions brought in
without debating them.
PEACE ELEMENT.
There is, however. a considerable ele-
ment in the senate which is opposed
TO war except as a last extremity, and
there are several others who think
there ought to be delay of at least a
week or ten days before action is taken
in congress. in order to insure the safe
landing of ships and war supplies now
on their way to this country from Eu-
rope. The committee on foreign rela-
tons is not impressed with this line of
reasoning, and the members urge that
SPAN is no better prepared for hostil-
tiles than are we
The members of the committee do
not expect the presidents message be-
fore Tuesday, and they are prepared
to wait until Wednesday. Under great
pressure there might be a delay be-
yond this time, but a request for DELAY
would cause great restiveness on the
part of majority of the committee
While DESTROYS of giving the president
all the time he may actually require
for the preparation of his message
they are very impatient of the outside
influence which is being exerted to hold
them in check.
FLOODED WITH LETTERS.
This pressure is in the shape of let
tiers and kilograms from people
throughout the country who are OPP
posed to a war policy, and with these
the members of the committee are be-
ing flooded The writer's a member
of the committee said today, 'gener-
ally ask us to maintain an honorable
peace. but the time has gone by when
it can be secured under existing con-
ditions in Cuba. We cannot allow our
conduct to be controlled by such per-
sons
When the presidents message is
read, it will, on Senator Davis motion.
be referred to the committee on for
eiSn relations, which will bring in its
report later in the day, or it may not
do so until the following day. So far
as it is informed as to the probable
line of the presidents proclamation, the
is now prepared to report.
but the members realize that there will
be some detail of the message that will
require careful consideration. and in
that event they will give more time to
it than an hour or two on the day of
its presentation.
BASIS OF RESOLUTIONS.
Unless there is a change in the COM
.nittee conclusions, after the president
is heard from, the resolutions reported
VIII recommend the recognition OF IN
with a declaration OF armed
Intervention to make independence
They will also include the
Maine explosion as one of the causes
set forth for this action. the resolu-
ton will be accompanied by the care
fully drawn report. written by Senator
Davis. justifying them. For the rest
Of the week the senate will probably
give it's attention TO appropriation bills
ana miscellaneous measures on the
calendar.
There is little in the way of a pro-
gramme for the house this week
Everything awaits upon the presidents
and the momentous events
that are to follow its presentation. To-
morrow the bill for the reorganization
IF the army is to be called up. Chair
man Hull of the military committee
believes it will he passed without OPP
position. 1t is considered part of the
war preparations. and as such it's
urgency would preclude the opposition
which il might encounter in ordinary
lines. The senate District of Columbia
naval battalion bill is on the speakers
able, and it. too. may be passed. Tues
lay and Friday are private bill days.
rhe deficiency appropriation bill is al
most ready and could be considered
my time after Wednesday. If the mes
sage does not come in on that day.