The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-13
Woshington Bureau st. Paul Globe.
Corcoran Buiidino.

Special to The St. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON. April 12.-All Wash.
1ngton is out tonight to welcome Con.
SUI General Lee, who Is the most snr.
prised man In the United States.
he expected to find when he set foot
on American soil that the fleets at Kew
west mad been ordered to Law siege to
Havana
On his trip from Havana TO Florida
ne was toasted and banquetted and
replied that the day was not dista,+
"hen he would return at the head Of
d cohquer1ng column and drive Blanco
OH the Island, but when he saw Nc
h1nley's message, it is positively stat.
ed, Lee thought very seriously Of re.
turning by the first boat that he could
get to take. him back to Havana.
one OF the propositions of the Nc.
k1nley message still harps on the dis
tr1bution Of food. clothing and medf-
cine to the suffering In Cuba. but. az
every American citizen has fed, how
can any relief now be distributed?
| tomorrow both the house and senate
committees will report resolutions
which, II passed by congress, will mean
| war Spain will be. notified IN these
| resolutions to withdraw her army from
| Cuba as an earnest pledge of her pro-
! fessed intentions for peace
The resolutions as framed and ac-
cepted by both committees are some
thing of compromise, inasmuch as
the direct recognition of the insurgent
| republic is not made.
Democratic Programme.
The programme of the house Demo-
Gratis is to move as a substitute the
formal recognition of independence.
They take the position that such
| course will not necessarily mean war.
They believe that, if the present repub-
lie We're recognized, it would be given
a standing before the world that would
work out its own salvation.
Ii the resolution, which will prob.
ably be proposed by Mr.. Bailey, is vot-
ed down, the Democrats will then in
troduce another as an amendment to
the Republican proposition, recognize
Ing the republic of Cuba and also di-
rect1ng armed Intervention. On this
they expect the aid of seventy-fiye Re-
publicans.
There is certain to be some party
feeling worked up, and Tom Reed is in
hopes that partisanship will get the
better Of patriotism
Over at the other end of the capitol
a big mountain range of senatorial
aVolrdupois looms up in front of any
belligerent resolutions. Elkins and
Hanna, Hale and Gray, Cafferty and
White are the six senator's who ara
classed as being for peace at any
price Then there are several monde
scripts like Burrows, Cullom, Hans
brough, Rawlins. Clark, Caster and
Aldrich, who will probably become con-
scripts to the policy of debate and de-
lay.
To the credit of C. K. Davis be it
said that he has remained firm and
unshaken from the outset, and would
not consent to any other proposition
than notice to Spain to quit Cuba
and withdraw her army.
Mckinley threw q sop to Davis to-
day, according to Minnesota talk here,
hoping that he would consent to a
modification of the senate resolutions.
Mr. Evans, of Minneapolis, was NOM
mated for United States attorney, two
months before any vacancy will oc-
cur. 1t will, of course, have no effect
on the chairman Of the committee on
foreign relations, who has modestly
maintained course of action from the
beginning.