The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-15
RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH SENATE
On Its Action Now Depends the Momenous
With Spain-No Irreconcilabe Differences
Among Senator's

was read as follows: House resolu-
tion. dishwater. Davis resolution. sat
isfactory. Remember the Maine"
message was received from the
Cuban resolution passed by the house.
BY unanimous consent. at the request
or Mr.. Davis. chairman of the foreign
relations committee. the resolution yes
terday reported by the foreign relations
committee was laid before the senate.
Mr.. Turner of Washington began a
speech In which he sharply criticised
the administration for the vacillating
and irresolute, cowardly. and pusillani-
nous policy pursued hy II in the Cuban
question. He said the developments of
the past two weeks had shaken his faith
in those who held the presidents ear
and confidence.
Mr.. Turner declared himself strongly
in favor Of the resolution presented by
the minority Of the committee on for
eign relations. and for so doing he need
ed no further justification than the
magnificent state paper which accom-
panied the majority report He de-
clared, however. that the same male
VIOLENT influences which has paralyzed
the executive and almost caused the
people to revolt. were still at work. II
these influences should succeed the
whole country would know the dis
graceful story and the nation would be
shamed. Mr.. Turner maintained that
congress could not delegate to the pres
ident the power to make war.
THE congress of the United States is
the organized conscience of the coun-
try" said he, land IL is the only pow
er which can take the dread step of
war"
After vehemently attacking the pres
ident for the delays which had oc-
CURED in the sending of his message to
congress, Mr.. Turner charged that the
delay last week was not due to the re-
quest of General Lee, but to the fact
that Archbishop Ireland had cabled to
the vatican in the hope that the pope
might be able to bring about a peace
full solution of the difficulty.
The president was waiting upon the
pope's action. taken to secure that
which American diplomacy had failed
to obtain. Mr.. Turner ridiculed the
diplomatic negotiations of the admin
istration. and demanded to know
whether congress wanted more of IL.
He declared that the state department,
even with the support OF the depart
ment of justice, was weak and unavail-
ing. At fhe Spanish end of our diplo-
matte line We had as minister a man
whose-tfcsirc~fer-pe peace was So strong
that he refused to obey the plain in
structions of his superior officers. Mr..
Turner declared with bitter sarcasm
that with such diplomatic agents rep
resenting the United states, the Mad
rid government might eventually for a
suitable indemnity absolve this coun-
try for blockading the harbor of Ha-
vana with the shattered hull OF the
Maine. The flashing sword of the
United States must be drawn for Gu
ban independence, and 1t would be
welded by an arm stronger than ever.
Once uplfted, il should never be low
cred until Spain was driven from the
western misphere.
He read several kilograms from
prominent citizens of Washington to
show the drift of sentiment in that
state. One from the governor declared
that Intervention without recognition
of independence would be utterly un-
satisfactory. Another from the col
onel of the first regiment, uniformed
rank, Knights of Pythias, which had
rendered to the president its services
in case of war; directed him to with
draw the offer, as IL had been made un-
der the impression that they would be
called upon to fight Spaniards, not Gu
bans.
When the venerable senator from
Massachusetts,. Mr.. Hoar. arose to fol-
low Mr. Turner there was a visible stir
in the audience. The senator from
Massachusetts, said that he wanted to
make few observations quietly, calm
ly and in the manner of a court dealing
Will the SItdl VI public NGl-
fare and public honor. He thought il
was not the time for impassioned rhet-
oric, loud declamations, the clapping Of
hands and the stamping of feet, but
rather, II was the position of absolute
deliberation that should command such
a scene and such an occasion. He then
argued that the report of cruelty and op-
preston in the island of Cuba undoubt-
edly warranted some measures which
bring h,rt a IN
wisdom of rushing headlong into war
until every diplomatic effort had been
made to bring about an honora BILE ces-
sation of hostilities.
Then. with voice trembling with
emotion, his head slowly shaking as the
words came forth, he told how a cap
tain of company of infantry organ
lied in the same town in which he was
born went forth in the morning of the
revolution to hold the bridge at Con-
cord. and said that he was in the same
position as that captain was. Realizing
the tremendous responsibility Of his
high Office, he thought that. whatever
was done should be done with an eye
single to the situation. Then, with
hand raised and amidst the profound
stiffness in the senate chamber. he made
this significant remark: IF this coun-
try is to do a great act of international
justice. set US do IL calmly and delib-
erately."
Senator Hoar argued that the attacks
upon the president were ill-advised and
most .ll-timed: that instead Of con-
demnation of the policy of the execu-
tive. the country and congress should
commend the president in his efforts
making for peace, so long as peace
could be had with honor. Then. after
presenting a tribute to the president
the senator said that the men who suf-
fered by modern wars were not the
men who provoked them. and that the
men who reaped the benefits from war
were a few officers and stock jobbers.
He said that war meant the addition
of untold millions to the public debt of
the country. the piling up of pensions
mountain high and would bring woe
and desolation to thousands OF homes.
Il like and thank the president OF
the United States for his sublime self
restraint in this emergency. and for
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