The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-13
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Great Excitement in the House
When Resolution
Offered in the Senate is Read
Aloud
STAND IN THE AISLES
Business of the Body is Neg
lected.
Senate Committees Report is
Bitter
In DenunciatiOn of Spain For
Destroying the Maine.
In DenunciatiOn of Spain Fol
Destroying the Maine.
CHARGES HER DIRECT
With the Commission of the
Criminal Act.
Resolution Calls For Freeing
Cuba by Force.

Washington, April 13.-The house was
in a furore of excitement during the
preliminary business today. No atten-
ton was paid to it. The members
crowded about Mr.Adams, acting chair
man of the foreign affairs committee
who brought over the printed copy of
the senate resolutions and read them
aloud to half hundred members in the
main aisles
Immediately upon the convening of
the senate at noon today, Senator Davis,
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee reported the following resolu-
ton:
Whereas, The abhorrent conditions
which have existed for more than three
years in the island of Cuba, so near our
own borders, have shocked the moral
sense of the people of the United States,
have been a disgrace to Christian CIV
ilizatiOn, eliminating as they have, in
the destruction of a United States bat
tleship, with 266 of its officers and crew,
while on a friendly visit to the harbor
of Havana, and cannot longer be en-
dured, as has been set forth by the
president of the United States, in his
message to congress, of April H. 1898,
upon which the action of congress was
invited, therefore
Resolved, First, that the people of
the island of Cuba are, and of right
ought to be free and independent
"Second-That it is the duty of the
United States to demand and the gov
ernment of the United States does here
by demand that the government of
Spain at once relinquish it's authority
and government in the island of Cuba
and withdraw it's land and naval forces
from Cuba and Cuban waters.
''Third-That the president of the
United States be and he hereby is direct
ed and empowered to use the entire
land and naval forces of the United
States and to call into actual service
of the United States the militia of the
several states to such extent as may
be necessary to carry these resolutions
into effect
The committee report as it was read
in the senate made a deep impression.
1t was regarded as a powerful-almost
bitter-arraignmento of Spain.
Senator Turpie presented the report
of the minority of the committee as fol-
lows:
THE undersigned members of the
committee on foreign relations cordially
concur in the report made upon the
Cuban resolutions, but we favor the i'm
mediate recognition of the republic of
Cuba, as organized in that island, as a
free, independent and sovereign power
among the nations of the world
1t was signed by Senators Turpie,
Mills, Daniel and Foraker.
Washington, April 13.-At 1:3O p. M,
the majority of the house committee on
foreign affairs, agreed to the following.
resolution which will be reported to the
house this afternoon.
Resolved, etc, That the president is
hereby authorized and directed to in
tervene at once to stop the war in
Cuba to the end and with the purpose
of securing permanent peace and order
there and establishing by the free ac-
ton of the people thereof a stable and
independent government of their own
in the island of Cuba; and the president
is hereby authorized and empowered to
use the land and naval forces of the
United States to execute the purpose of
this resolution.
washington, April 13.-There is a
strong movement on the Republican
side to limit debate on the resolutions
to 20 minutes on side in the house. If
the Democrats agree to the resolutions
when the committee convenes at 1
o'clock there would be no opposition to
this programme
THE MAINE A CASUS BELL
Senate Committee Arraigns Spain
Directly.
Washington, April 13.-The report of
the senate committee on foreign rela-
tions on the Cuban situation was very