Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-13
THE PRESIDENTS AIM
CONTINUED from Eleventh rass.)

will have a full opportunity to assail the
President of the United States. to send
their bitterness and their opposition across
the water to our enemies. The gentleman
shall have a full opportunity to abuse his
own constituents at home for any con-
sentative expressions which they, may have
made through the telegraph or the mail.
and he shall have that opportunity I'M
affected by answers Of mine I wish here
simply to saw that the President of the
United States has asked of Congress the
power to use the army and the navy for the
purpose Of establishing In the Island Of
Cuba an Independent government
Mr.. Lentz-"Why didn't he say so?"
Mr.. Grosvenor-"Will my friend from
Ohio try for minute to-keep his mouth
shut?"
Mr. Cannon-"oh, that Is impossible :"
Applause and laughter on the republican
side)
Mr. Handy Del)-"I want to know what
you understand the President to mean by
this sentence in his message: 1T involves,
however. hostile constraint upon both the
parties to the contest as well as to enforce
a truce to guide the eventual settle
ment-''
eco and Ask the President.'
Mr.. Grosvenor-"You had better go and
ask the President ''1T daughter and ap-
plause on the republican side)
Mr.. Gaines-"Dont you think you had
better go and see HANNAH" (Derisve jeers
on the republican side and laughter on the
democratic side)
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures comes in another
exhibition. -Gaughter) Now. let me re-
state my proposition. i state the President
of the United States has asked for the use
of the army and navy to establish on the
Island of Cuba an independent government,
and has said so in the piainest kind of Eng
fish language" (Cries Of "Where?" on the
Democratic side.)
After a great deal of tribulation / am
going to give the gentlemen on the other
side demonstration of every statement
which made. You WIN 1hd this language
used by the President, and will leave it
to the most acute analytical mind on the
other side to say that IL that Is not a prop
osition to establish on the Island Of Cuba
a government Independent OF, Spain:
In view of these facts and Of these
considerations. ask Congress to author
lie and empower the President to take
measures to secure full and final termina-
ton of hostilities between the government
of Spain and the people Of Cuba. and to
secure in the island the establishment of a
stable government capable of maintaining
order and observing its international obli-
cations
The Presfdent's- Meaning.
Nov. ask any gentleman on the other
side to tell me how a government on an
island or any country controlled by a for
eign country, as Cuba is. can have a gov
eminent capable of dlscharging It's inter-
national obligations? What are internal
tional obligations? Do colonies have inter-
national obligst icns? Did the President
understand that there can be colonial
condition In Cuba ty which there would be
international obligations from that gov
eminent?
What international act does Canada
do? What international act has any of the
West India islands ever done? What rep
resentatfve of this government goes to ia
malica, Porto Rico or any island except
those independent? The very language of
the President, as understood by every in
telliSent man and men OF thought. is that
the object and purpose of using force is to
obligations. and with the power to dis
charge those international obligations.
So the whole app cal of the gentleman from
Ohio is like the picture of a painted ship
upon painted ocean daughter on
publican side)
The time is coming very rapidly" said
Ir Grosvenor. in conclusion, lit will be
fsre. / trust, tomorrow when under the
guidance of the committee on foreign af-
fairs, this House Will take action, and l
will suggest to the gentlemen on the other
side that there Will be a degree of patriot
ism, degree of unanmity of purpose,
degree of oneness in action. that will sur
Prise the gentleman when he looks over
the votes that will be taken here tomor-
row Great applause en- the republican
s:de)
Mr. Bailey, the democratic leader re-
Piled 10 Representative Grosvenor in
brief speech which aroused intense enthus-
iasEl on the democratic side. 1t was some
what remarkable, he SAID, that the Presi-
dent in sending TO Congress one of the
most important messages upon one of the
mos exciting questions which had been be-
Tore the country IN years had concluded
with "a recommendation so ambiguous that
IL could he. the C1SiDn of
Other portions of the message showed that
the President was a master of clear and
iucid English; yet In prosecuting his rec.
online ndations he had done in words
that taxed the ingenuity of the gentleman
from Ohio to make clear what he meant
III the President meant the freedom and in
dependence of Cuba he had not said So
Il do not believe" said Mr.. Bailey that
the President deliberately yelled his mean
ing. and in saying that 1 DO him more cred
it than others on this floor / believe if
the President had designed the establish
ment of free and Independent republic on
the Island OF Cuba ne would have said So
Why did he say stable government? A
stable government and an Independent gov
eminent were vastly different. No one
doubts that Canada possesses stable gov
eminent, but every Intelligent man Knows
II is not an independent government. do
not doubt that Spain could establish IA
stable government. 1t could make a desert
and call IL peace.
No one could deny continued Mr.
Il
authority to send the army and navy to
Cuba TO restore peace When our forces
arrived the Spanish will say: We are at
peace Our arms stacked 1T is the
insurgents who at war Then the
agents of the President would be compell-
ed under the authority he asks to say to
the insurgents: Stack your arms. Retire
to the fields where you have for three years
struggled with fire and sword to attain
your liberty
Mark my words said Mr.. Bailey in
-tsLz
gest Ire. no President that sends the army
end navy Of the United States to force the
patriot soldiers of Cuba TO lay down their
arms will live. nor will his children live to
survive the odium which the American peo-
pie will fix upon him." Great applause on
democratic side and in galleries.)