The record-union., 1898-04-13
SENATE COMMITTEES.
Said That the Members Have
Reached a Conclusion.

w WAO11INGION, April IZ.-Ine Sen
ate Committee on Foreign Relations re-
| su1ned its sitting this morning. all the
members being present except Mr.. Dan
iel. The committee immediately took
up the task of Formulating a resolution
defining it's idea of the course to be
pursued in the present complication
with Spain.
The committee is finding it a very
| difficult task TO reach an agreement on
the terms of the resolution it will re-
port. There is by no means the same
unanimity that there was when the
committee first met and decided to re-
port the Foraker resolutions Many
propositions have been made covering
all the lines of possible intervention
but the indications at the beginning
of to-days session were that there
would be return to the compromise
proposition which was made prior to
the receipt of tho message Indeed. a
sufficient number of pledges had then
been secured to recder the adoption of
this cours quite certain.
All the Republican members of the
committee, except Senator Foraker. are
understood to be willing to report on
these lines, and it is now believed that
for the sake of party harmony he may
be induced to join his colleagues. This
compromise involved the elimination of
the second of his declarations recog-
nizing the Republic of Cuba as the
true and lawful Government of that
island, and the retention of his first
premise declaring that "the people of
the Island of Cuba are and of right
ought to be free and independent.
The Ohio Senator has up to the pres
ent time held out strenuously for both
declarations, but the other Republican
members at their meeting yesterday ar
gued the necessity of the concession in
order to insure harmony in the party
ana to secure a form of resolution
which would meet the approval of the
| Senate and be sure of passage
Senator Gray is the only Democratic
Senator who now appears willing to
join with the Republicans in eliminat-
ing the recognition of the Cuban re-
public, but his vote, added to the votes
or the five Republicans would be suffi-
clent to secure the adoption of the res
olutlon and its report by the commit
tee. 1t is, however, not certain that
the five Republican votes could be Sc
cured, unless all the Republican votes
could be controlled for the reason that
some OF the other members of this
party in the committee are inclined to
make unanimous action by their party
in the committee condition of their
cooperation.
For the rest, if this compromise is
accepted, the resolution will be a short
and sharp declaration for immediate in
terventlcn. In case the majority agree
upon the compromise here outlined
there in all probability will be a mi
nority report providing for the recogni-
ton of the present Cuban Government.
which will be made by the Democratic
members with the possible exception
of Senator Gray. There is a strong
effort to prevent this division, but it
now seems the most probab BILE result of
the committees deliberation.
The committee remained together un-
til almost y o'clock, and thehn ad-
| journed until 3:30 o'clock to hear Con-
sul-General Lee. A formal vote was
not taken, but the committee knew
what its report would be when it ao-
1ourned at noon The result was not
however, made public. The best in
formation obtainable is that it will re-
port all the Foraker resolutions except
the second, together with a strong pre-
amble, reciting the Maine disaster as
a cause for deep resentment on the
part of this Government. Unless the
committee changes it's decision the fol-
| lowing, in addition to the preamble, are
the resolutions which will be reported
| by the committees: i.
F'irst-That the people of the Island
of Cuba are and Of right ought to be
free and independent.
Second-That the war which Spain is
| I7aging against Cuba is so destructive
of the commercial and property inter-
ests of the United States, and so cruel.
| barbarous and iDhuman in its character
as to make it the duty of the United
| States to demand, and the Government
of the United States hereby does de-
| mand, that she at once withdraw her
| land and naval forces from Cuba and
| Cuban waters.
! Thrd-That the President of the
United States be, and he is hereby au-
| thorized, empowered and directed to
use, if necessary, the entire land and
naval force of the United States to
carry these resolutions into effect.
HOITSE REpTTRTTChN NC