The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-13

"Now ask any gentleman on the 9th
er SIDE TO tell Tue how a government on
an lslanu OF any country controlled by a
foreign country like Spain is now, can
have a government capable of discharg-
ing It's international obligations. Do
colonies nave international obligations?
The President understands that there
could lie no colonial condition in Cuba
by which there would be international
obligations from that government.
What ternationa1 act does so? What
International act has any of the West
India islands ever done? What represen-
tative of this government goes 10 ia
maica, Porto hlco or any islands except
those independent? The very language
of the President as understood by every
intelligent man is that the object and
purpose of using force is to establish a
government with international obliga-
lions and with the power to discf arge
these international obligations. So the
whole appeal of the gentleman from
Ohio is like the picture of painted
ship upon pain ted ocean. daughter
OH Republican side }
"The time is coming very rapidly
said Mr.. Grosvenor, in conclusion, sit
will he here, trust, tomorrow, when un-
der guidance of the committee on foreign
affairs. this House will take action and
l will suggest that there will he a degree
of patriotism, degree of unanimity Of
purpose. degree of oneness in action
looks over the votes that Will be taken
here tomorrow" (Grest applause on
Republican side.
Mr.. Bailey, the Democratic leader re-
piled to Gen. Grosveror in a brief speech
which aroused intense enthusiasm on the
Democratic side. 1t was somewhat re-
markable, he said, that the President lin
sending to Congress one OF the most I'M
portant messages upon one of the most
exciting questions which had been,before
the country in years bad concluded with
q recommendation SO ambiguous that IL
could be occasion Of controversy.
Other portions of the message showed
that the President was master of clear
and lucid English, yet in presenting his
recommendations he had done so in
words that taxed the ingenuity of the
gentleman from Ohio to make clear
what he meant. If the President meant
the freedom and Independence of Cuba,
why had he not said so?
II do not believe said Mr.. Bailey
that the President deliberately yelled
his meaning and in saying that do him
more credit than others on this floor. !
believe if the President had designed the
establishment of free and Independent
republic on the island of Cuba he would
have said So What did he say stable
government? A stable government and
an independent government are vastly
different. No one doubts that Canada
possesses a stable government, but every
intelligent man knows it is not an indie
pendent government. 1 do not doubt that
Spain could establish stable govern :
mept. It could make desert and call it
peace. ssSah
mo one can deny" continued Mr.
Bailey, "that the President has asked for
authority to send the army and navyIto
Cuba to restore peace. When our forces
arrived, the Spaniards would say: we
are at peace; our arms are stacked; 1tI IS
the insurgents who are at war. a.
"Ihen the agents of the President
would be compelled. under the authority
he asks, to say to the insurgents, STACK
your arms, retire to the fields you have
for three years struggled with fire and
sword to attain you liberty.
"Mark my words,'' said Mr.. Bailey, in
conclusion. with uplifting arm and
ominous gesture, "no President that
sends the army and navy of the United
States to force the patriotic Cubans to
lay down their arms will live, nor will
his children live, to survive the odfum
which the American people will fix upon
him. (Great applause on Democratic
side and in galleries.
A fewsminutes later the House at s.. 70
adjourned. = +