The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-04-15

Aid Tbem-Iouse Resolution of SINH
lar Tenor to the senate's.
at is the opinion of your committee that
,be destruction of the Maine was COM
,as.ed either by the Official act of the
snanish authorities, or was made possible
hya negligence on their part SO willing and
gross as to be equivalent In culpability to
rositfye criminal action."-Report of Sem
ate Committee on Foreign Relations.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The senate
foreign relations committee reported
20 the senate resolutions for immediate
armed intervention and establishment
of a stable Independent government.
The minority of five members will re-
port in favor of Cuban insurgents in
dependence.
The following are the majority reso-
lutions reported by Senator Davis:
The Majority Resolutions.
WHEREAS. The abhorrent conditions which
have existed for more than three years In the
island or Cuba, so near our own bordsrs have
shocked the moral sense of the people OF the
United States, have been disgrace to Chris
ttan civilization, eliminating, they have
IN the destruction OF a United States battleship
with 266 officers and crew while on
friendly visit to the harbor of Havana and can
not longer be endured, as has been set forth by
the president of the United States in his mes
sage to congress of April IL, 1898 upon which
the action ofcongress was invited; therefore,
ResoIred, First. That the people OF the island
are and Of right ought to be, free and indie
pendent
Second. That 1t is the duty of the United
States to demand, and the government Of the
Ctata Inv,
government OF Spain at once relinquish its au-
thority and government in the island OF Cuba
and withdraw its land AMI naval forces from
Cuba and Cuban waters.
Third. That the president of the United
States be, and he hereby is, directed and en-
powered to use the entire land and naval forces
OF the United States, and to call into actual
service Of the United States the militia OF sew
eral states, to such an extent may be nee
essarry to carry these resolutions into effect
The report of the senate committee
on foreign relations on the Cuban stu
alton made by Senator Davis, chairman
of that committee, and accompanying
the resolutions, was very thorough
review of the entire situation, and a
strong presentation of the facts which
had led the committee to its conclu-
sions. The report takes up the Maine
disaster as the leading topic for consid-
Grafton, and plunges into that question
in its first sentence, which is follows:
The destruction OF the United States battle
ship Maine, of two OF her officers and OF 2e4 OF
her crew in the harbor of Havana, ON the night
OF February Is, 1898. excited to an unpreceGent-
ed degree the compassion and resentment of the
American people
Continuing the report says:
Manifestations OF that resentment W ere sus-
pended, although the feeling was not aiayed
by the sef-restraint OF Jour people, who deter
mined to hold their judgment in suspense con-
corning their ultimate ction until an sf1cial
Investigation should disclose the cause az that
great disaster and enabled them by direct or
eircumstantial testimony TO impute the re-
sponsibility therefor.
That investigation has been made. 1t was
conducted with judicial thoreughness and de-
liberation The difficulty of demonstrating by
conclusive proof the efficient personal cause of
that sinister event was the usual one OF expos
ing plotted and mysterious crimes No such
difficulty, however, obscures its official and re-
sponsible cause.
The committee say that the explosion
itself of the Maine was linked with a
series of precedent transactions, (which
can not in reason be disconnected from
it"
With animus by Spain, so plainly apparent
that no one can even plausibly deny its exist
ence, 1t Is merely one reason for the
conclusion to which the investigating
mind must come in concerning the entire
subject of the relations OF the United States
with that government. 1t is the opinion OF your
committee that the destruction of the Maine
was compassed either by the official act OF the
spanish authorities was made possible by
negligence on their part so willing and gross as
70 De equivalent in culpability to positive GRIM
lnal action.
When property and life are destroyed by an
act which the exercise OF due diligence by the
person whose duty it is to use it could have
prevented, the happening OF such an event is
sumclent proof that diligence was not en-
poyed.
The time of the explosions" says
the report, must have been calculated
Tor the moment when the Maine should
swing within the destructive radius of
the mine"
concluding, this portion of its pres
entatlon, the committee says:
The duplicity. perfdy, and cruelty of the
spanish character as they always have been
are demonstrated still to continue by their
demonstrations during the present war in Cuba.
an shese circumstances considered cumulative
" warrant the conclusion that the destruction
VI the Maine was comprised either by the Of
nolai act OF the Spanish authorities (and the
entertainment OF the particular person Is not
NateriaD, or was made possible by negligence
VI tneir part, so willing and gross as to be
equiValent in culpability to positive crimina.
action.
senator Turpie presented the report
ol the minority of the committee as
follows:
me Undersigned, members of the committee
va foreign relations, cordially concur in the re-
poit MADE upon he Cub n resolutions, but we
r lssof immediate recognition Of the republic Of
Suoa' as organized in that island. as a free, ia
..ependent and sovereign power among the ma
1ons of the world.
~ was signed by Senators Turpie,
Mills, Daniel and Foraker.
he reading of the report occupied
minutes. Mr.. Hoar demanded that
'ne resolution lie over under the rules
until Thursday.
senator Foraker proceeded to discuss
'ne cuban question on it's general
merits.