The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-13
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MT. GrosVenor-4ou had better go and ask the president
 MT. Gaines-You had better go and see Hanna.
 MT. Grosvenor-There comes in another exhibition Oaughter,) I stated that the president has asked for the use of the army and navy to es- tablish on the island of Cuba an in dependent government and has said so In the plainest kind of English. (Cries of Where on the democratic side) You will find this language used by the president, and I will leave it to the other side to say if that is not a propo- sition to establish on the island of Cuba a government independent of Spain:
 Tn view of these facts I ask congress to authorize and empower the presi- dent to take measures to secure full and final termination of hostilities be- tween the government of Spain and the people of Cuba and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government capable of maintaining or der and observing it's international ob- ligations." Now I ask the gentlemen on the other side to tell me how govern ment on an island of any country con- trolled by foreign country, as Cuba is now, can have a government capa- ble of discharging it's international ob- ligations Do colonies have interna- tional obligations? What international act does Canada do? What interna- tional act has any of the West India islands ever done? What representa- tive of this government goes to Ja- maica, Porto Rico or any islands ex- cept those independent? The very lan- guage of the president as understood by every intelligent man is that the purpose of using force is to establish a government with international obli- gations and with power to discharge those international obligations So the whole appeal of the, gentleman rom Ohio is like the picture of a palnted ship upon a painted ocean. Oaughter.)
 "The time is coming very rapidly said MT. Grosvenor, in conclusion, it will be here I trust tomorrow, when under the guidance of the committee on foreign affairs this house will take ac- tion and I will suggest that there will be a degree of patriotism, degree of
  ness in action that will surprise the gentleman when he looks over the vote that will be taken here tomorrow
 MT. Bailey. the democratic leader, re- piled to General Grosvenor in brief speech which aroused intense enthusi- asm on the democratic side. It was somewhat remarkable, he said, that the president in sending to congress one of the most important messages upon one of the most exciting questions which had been before the country in years, had concluded with a recommendation so ambiguous that it could be the oc- casion of controversy. Other portions of the message showed that the presi- dent was a master of clear and lucid English, yet in presenting his recom- mendations he had done so in words that taxed the ingenuity of the gen. tleman from Ohio to make clear what he meant. If the president meant the freedom and independence of Cuba, why had he not said so?
 q do not believe" said Mir. Bailey, "that the president deliberately yelled his meaning and in saying that l do him more credit than others on this floor. I believe if the president had de- signed the establishment of free and independent republic on the island of Cuba he would have said so. Why did he say stable government? stable 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 independent government. do not doubt that Spain could establish a stable government. It could make desert and call it peace.
 'No one can deny" continued MT. Bailey, ''that the president has asked for authority to send the army and navy to Cuba to restore 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 presi- dent would be compelled, under the authority he asks to say to the insur- gents Stack your arms, retire to the fields where you have for three years struggled with fire and sword to at- tain your liberty"
 Mark my words" said MT. Bailey, in conclusion, with uplifted arm and OmlnOuS gesture, no president Indt sends the army and navy of the United States to force the patriots of Cuba to lay down their arms will live nor will his children live, to survive the odium which the American people will fix upon him." Great applause on democratic side and in galleries).
 Tn the Senate.
 Washington, April 12.--For nearly three hours to-day the senate had the