The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-13

dent to mean by this sentence in his
message: 1T involves, however. hos
tile constrafnt upon both the parties to
the contest as well to enforce a truce
10 guide the eventual settlement"
Mr.. Grosvenor-Yod had better go
ask the president. daughter and APP
plause on the republican side.)
Mr.. Gaires-Don't you think you had
better go and see Hanna? Derisive
jeers on the republican side.)
Mr.. Grosvenor-There comes in an
other exhibition. Laughter.) Now let
me restate my proposition. l state that
the president of the United States has
asked for the use of the army n navy
to establish on the island of Cuba an
Independent government, and has said
so I'm the plainest kind of English Ian
guage. (Cries of where on the demo-
cratic side.)
The Message Quoted.
After a great deal of tribulation 1
am going to give the gentlemen on the
other sid a demonstration of every
statement which I make. You will find
this language used by the president,
n will leave 1t to the most acute
analytical mind on the other side to
say IL that is not a proposition to es-
table on the island of Cuba a govern
ment independent of Spain: In view of
these facts, and of those considerations.
/ ask congress to authorize and EN-
power the president to take measures
to secure a full and final termination of
hostilities between the government of
Spain and the people of Cuba, and to
secure in h island the establishment
of a stable government, capable of
maintaining order and observing it's
international obligations
Now ] ask any gentleman on the
other side to tell me how a govern
ment on an island of any country con-
trolled by a foreign country, as Cuba
is now, can have a government capable
of discharging its international obliga-
lions. What are International obliga-
lions? Do governments have interna-
tional obligations? Did the president
understand that there can De a colo
NAL condition in Cuba by which there
would be international obligations from
hat government?
What international act does canada
do? What international act has any of
the West indian stands ever done?
What representative of this govern
ment goes to Jamaica, Porto Rico or
any island except those independent?
The very language of the president, as
understood by every intelligent Ameri-
can and man of thought, shows his
purpose of using force to establish a
government with International obliga-
tions. So the whole appeal of the gen.
tleman from Ohio is like the picture of
a painted ship IN a painted ocean.
daughter on republican side).
The time is coming very rapidly
said Mr.. Grosvenor in conclusion, 1t
will be here, / trust. tomorrow, when,
under the guidance of the committee on
foreign Affairs. this house will take ac-
ton, and | will suggest to the gentle
men on the other side that there will
be a degree of patriotism, a degree OF
unanimity of purpose, a degree OF one
ness in action that will surprise the
gentleman when he looks over the votes
that will be taken here tomorrow
Great applause on the republican side).
Mr.. BaiIey's Ideas.
Mr.. Bailey, the democratic leader. re-
piled to General Grosvenor in a brief
speech. which aroused intense enthu-
siasm on the democratic side. ~ was
somewhat remarkable. he said. that
the president. in sending to cong tess
one of the most important messages
upon one of the most exciting ques-
tons which had been before the coun-
try i'm years. had concluded with a
recommendation so ambiguous that 1t
could be the occasion of controversy.
other portions of the message showed
that the president was a master of clear
and lucid English, yet in presenting
his recommendation he had done SO in
words that taxed the ingenuity If 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? Il don't be-
lieve." said Mr.. Bailey, that the presi-
dent deliberately yelled his meaning,
and in saying that | do him more credit
than others on this floor. l believe if
the president had designed the estab-
lishment of a free and independent re-
public on the island of Cube. he would
have said SO.
WIKI did he say a stable govern
ment? A stable government and an in
dependent government are vastly diff
ferent. No one doubts that Canada
possesses a stable government. but
every intelligent man knows it is not
an independent government. i do not
doubt that Spain could establish a
stable government. No one could
deny" continued Mr.. Bailey, that the
president had asked for authority to
send the army and navy to Cuba to re-
store peace. When our forces arrived,
the Spaniards would say: We are at
peace: our arms are stacked: it is the
insurgents who are at war; Then the
agents of the president would be COM
PEELED. under the authority he asks, to
say to the insurgents: Stack your
arms. retire from the fields, where you
have for three years struggled with
fire n sword to attain your lib
erty.'
Mark my words" aid Mr. Bailey I'm
conclusion, with uplifted arms. mo
president hat sends the army and
navy of the United States to force the
patriotic soldiers of Cuba to lay down
their arms will live. nor will his chill
dren live TO survive the odium which
the American people will fix upon him."
Great applause on the democratic side
and In the galleries.) A few minutes
later the house, at $50 p. m, adj
iourned.