The San Francisco call., 1898-04-12

get both committees into line upon the same resolution, so as to expedite action when the matter comes before the two Houses. There is little doubt that the recommendations of the two commit tees, whatever they may be, will finally prevail, but with certain factions favor ing the recognition of independence as a prelude to forcible intervention, another in favor of an out and out declaration of war, another standing with the Pres ident in favor of forcible intervention as one step to be taken at this time, some days debate will undoubtedly ensue after the committees have reported
 The peace men, who do not want any i action at all, must also be taken into ! consideration. With the elastic rules of the Senate these men would be able to prolong the debate indefinitely
 Naturally great interest is manifested in administration and Congressional cir cles as to the attitude which will be as sumed by the great powers in the event that Congress should direct the Presi- dent to forcibly intervene to end the war in Cuba None of the powers has gone so far as to officially state the po- sition 1t will adopt, and for the present their interest in the matter is confined to the efforts they are making to urge Spain to make all possible haste in ar ranging terms of peace with the insur- gents.
 It is admitted by representatives of the powers with whom 1 talked that they believe the joint representation they made at the White House last week had the effect, in the first place, of causing the President to postpone the transmits sion of his message to Congress until to-day, and, second, of indirectly result ing in its being couched in milder terms than before they saw Mir. Mckinley.
 If the insurgents should refuse to ac- cept the liberal propositions offered by Spain, they believe this Government should withdraw its moral support and prospective armed intervention, and this. 1t is believed, would have the ef- feet of causing the Cubans to come to terms.
 The expulsion of Spain from the island of Cuba and the declaration of the independence of the island from the sovereignty of Spain will probably be the vital points in the resolution which will finally be adopted by Congress Strenuous efforts are now being made to get the Foreign Relations Committee oi the Senate and the Foreign Affairs l Committee of the House into line upon the same resolution, and to have the re- port of the two as nearly unanimous as possible. Up to the present time these efforts have not succeeded. It has not even been possible to harmonize the diff ferences of the Republican members o either committee. The question of rec ognizing or in any way referring to in dependence in the resolution IS stumb ling block. Practically every member O each committee has in his pocket the text of a resolution which he believe: ought to be adopted. These all differ but they range themselves under three | independence, to establish peace anc stable government; intervention by de clayation of independence of the people of Cuba without recognizing the presen so-called Government, and intervention accepted by direct recognition of tn, present so-called Government. The sec
 ond of these, which IS in the nature o a compromise, seems tonight to be tn, one on which agreement IS most proba
 ble Much may depend upon the state
 ment made to Congress by Consul Gen
 eral Lee when he appears before them The majority of the Senate Com
 mittee on Foreign Relations is to night in favor of mandatory reso lution in reply to the President message.
 The committee went into secret ses and remained in session four hours. Tn debate was exceedingly spirited, bu there was wide diversity of opinion over the question of immediate interven ton or leaving 1t to the discretion of tn President, as suggested in the message There was also diversity of opinion O. the subject of recognizing the independ ence of the Cuban republic When tn meeting adjourned no definite actio
 had been reached, and the committe
 adjourned to meet again tomorrow when 1t IS expected that Consul Geners Lee will appear, and make statemer as to the situation in Cuba and wi 7 clear up the question as to whether h
 can shed any. additional light on tn 2 Maine disaster. All the members of tn s committee are pledged to secrecy, br
 ii IS known that If vote had been take