The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-23
iDR ARMED intervention
Resolutions Reported by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations
for Armed Intervention.
MINORITY IN FAVOR OF INDEPENDENCE.
The House, Alters stormy Session, Adopt
ed ~ Resolution Authorizing the fres-
ident to Intervene at Once. with Force,
in Cuba, After Voting Down the Min
GRITTY Report Favoring Recognition Of
Independence.


Independence
alt Is the opinion OF your committee that
the destruction of the Maine WAS COM
passed either by the Official act OF the
spanish authorities. or WAS made possible
by "A negligence on their part so willing and
gross to be equivalent In cuipabiiity to
positive criminal action" Report of SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations.
WASHINGTON, April l4.-War be-
tween two powerful nations was the
sole topic of discussion in congress
yesterday.
Such excitement, suppressed though
it was; such "a feeling that the country
was on the verge of events that would
make history for all time to come; such
eloquent and impassioned oratory; and
such keen and brilliant repartee have
not been known i'll the senate since the
exciting days when the country was con
vulsed by the greatest war of modern
times.
Notwithstanding the throng in the
galleries. the great semi-circular cham
Der was almost as silent as though 1T
were deserted. Conversation was con-
Quoted in low whispers, all seeming to
feel as if from the very air they
breathed that events historic and mo-
mentous were about to occur.
A full quarter of an hour before the
senate was to convene Mr.. Davis,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, entered the chamber and qul-
city went to his seat in the center of
! the republican side. He carefully
placed on his desk a bulky package
which all intuitively knew TO be the
fateful resolution and report from his
committee upon which peace or war
might hinge.
The chamber filled rapidly and when
the vice-president's gavel fell nearly
every senator was at his desk. Scarcely
five minutes had elapsed after the ses-
sion convened before the vice-presi-
dent recognized Mr.. Davis An in
slant hush fell over the chamber. Mr..
Davis presented to the senate the reso-
lutions and report from his committee
and requested that they be read. The
report was "A terrific arraignment of
Spain and her policies; yet SO eager
were all to hear every word that not
the slightest demonstration occurred
throughout the reading.
The following are the majority reso-
lutions reported by Senator Davis:
The Majority Resolutions.
WHEREAS. The abAorrent conditions which
have existed for more than three years in the
island or CUBA, near our own borders, have
shocked the moral sense OF the people OF the
United States. nave been q disgrace to Chris
tian civilization, eliminating, as they have
IN the destruction OF a United states battleshI
with 2e6 offic, rs and crew while on
friendly visit to the harDor % Havana. and car
not lon ger be endured. a. has been set forth DS
the president OF the United States in his mes
sage to congress OF April IL. lsss. upon which
the action OF congress was invited. therefore.
Rtsotr,d, First, That the people OF the islant
are ana OF right ought 10 be, free and indie
pendent
second That II is the duty of the UniteC
States to demand, and the government OF the
United States does hereby demand. that the
government OF spain 1t once relinquish its au
thority AMI government in the ISLAND OF Cuba
and Withdraw lts laui AM naval forces from
Cuba and Cuban waters.
Third That the president OF the United
States be- and he hereby Is, directed ami EN-
powered TO use the entire land and naval forces
OF the United states, AMI To call into actual
service OF the United states the militia or ssy-
eral states, 10 such extent ~ may be nee
essarry TO carry tneso resolutions ineo effect
The report of the senate committe,
on foreign relations on the Cuban stu
alton made by senator Davis. chairman
of that committee. and accompanying
the resolutions, was very thorough
review of the entire situation. and
strong presentation of the facts which
had led the committee to its conclu
; sions. The report takes up the Maine
disaster as the leading topic for consld
Grafton, and plungcs into that question
, in it's first sentence, which Is follows
The destruction OF the United States battle
shin Maine OF two Of her onicers anu OF 26i O
her crew in the harDor OF Havana on the nigh
, OF February 10, lsss excited 70 an unprecedent
: ed degree the compassion and resentment Of th
! American people.
Continuing the report says:
Manifestations OF that rcsentm mt were sus
pended. although the feeling was not allaye
by the sclf-re .traint of our people who deter
, | mined to mold their judgment In suspense con
, | corning their ultimate action un II an ofiicia
, investigation should disclose the cause of tina
great disaster and enabled them by direct Q
\ | circumstantial testimony to impute the re
I | sponsibiIity therefor
I That Investigation has been made. II wa
4 conducted with Judicial thoroughness and de
: liberation. The difficulty OF demonstrating b
: conclusive proof the cniclent personal cause
: that sinister event was the usual one OF expos
ing plotted ana mysterious crimes. No sue
8 diniculty however, oDscures It's oliicial ami re
= sponslble cause.
: The committee say that the explosio
!. itself of the Maine was linked with
series Of precedent transactions, ''whic
. can not in reason uc disconnected froi
u it,
: With animus by Spain. so plainly appareI
Il that no one can even plausiDly deny its exis
v cncc IL is merely one reason for u
e conclusion to which the investigate
y mind must come in concerning the emit
, subject OF the relations OF the United stat
with that government IL Is the opinion OF 80
committee that the destruction OF the Mai
was compassci either by the oficiai act OF Il
> Spanish authorities was made possible by
n negligence on their part so willing and gross
. ., be equivalent In culpability TO positive crir
=. lnal action
When property and life are destroyed by
II net which the exercise OF due diligence by y
'e person whose duty IL Is TO use IL could ha
/, prevented, the happening Of such an event
!, sufficient proof that diligence was not en-
y ployed.
? 1.-The time Of the explosions" sa,
'e the report, must have been calculate