Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-04-20
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Those Committee Reports.

The majority report of the Senate
 committee on foreign affairs, as re- ! ported April l3, is as follows: W hereas, The abhoTrent eondi- tlons 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 peo- . pie of the United States; have been
 disgrace 10 Christian civilization, cuImlnating, as they have, in the destruction of United States bat
 tleship with 256 of its officers and crew while on a friendly visit to the
 harbor of Havana, and can not lon
 ger be endured, as has been set forth by the President of the United States m hIs message to Congress
 on April II, 1898, upon which the action of Congress was invited,
 therefore be 1t
 Resolved, First-That the people
 of the island of Cuba are. and of
 right ought to be, free and inde-
 pendent.
 ~Second-That it is the duty of
 the President of the United States
 to demand, and the government of
 the United States does hereby de-
 mand that the government of Spain at once relihquish its authority and goye-nmCut in the island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval foEees from Cuba and Cuban wa ters.
 Third - That the President of the United States be, and he is here by directed and empowered, to use the 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 an extent as may bs necessary to carry these resolutions into effect"
 The minority report is very brief and It recognizes, in so many words, the independence of the republic of Cuba. It Is signed by Senators Foraker, republican, and by Nor gan, TuIpie, Mills and Daniels, dem ocrats.
 The majority of the House com mittee reported the following reso- lution:
 Resolved, That the President is hereby authorized and directed to intervene at once to stop the war in Cuba, and to end the war with the purpose of securing permanent peace and order there, and estab- fishing by free action 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
 The minority report of the House reads as follows:
 Resolved, That the United States government hereby recognizes the independence of the republic of Cuba
 'Second-That it is moved thereto by many considerations of humanity, 1t interest and of proyocation, smong which are the deliberate of our battle ship Maine )Ver a submarine mine and it's destruction in the harbOr of Havana; he President of the United States 1e, and IS hereby directed to employ the land and naval orces of the United States in aid pg the republic of Cuba to maine am the independence hereby recoS- lized.
 Third = That the President of he United States is hereby author zed and directed to extend imme- late relief to the starving Cubans."
 The majority report of the House committee was adopted by vote of 24 to 20.
 The Senate committees report fas not acted On.
 Senator Pittus introduced bill in he Senate as follows:
 ''It Is the opinion of your com llttee that the destruction of the laine was composed either by the tficial action of Spanish authorities r was made possible by negligence n their part. so willing and gross as } be equivalent in culpability to . ositive criminal action"