The St. Johns herald., 1898-04-30
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 From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, April IS, 1898
 The Spanish "manana" has been en
 tirely too conspicuous in Washington
 during the week just passed. It may
 not be true that the administration i!
 scheming for further delay, but it ii
 quite certain that it did nothing to try
 to prevent the waste of four precious
 days by senators in talking without say
 ing anything that had not been said be-
 fore Dy themselves or by others. It is equally certain that the senators who
 were most anxious for delaying the fna
 vote upon the resolution authorizing the
 use of the army and navy and the mill tia of the several states to force the l Spanish out of Cuba were those who have stuck t closest to Mr. Mckinley
 since the Cuban business began, and
 the same crowd, now that the senate has
 adopted resolution differing from the
 house resolut on in several particulars,
 notably the recognition of Cuban inde- pendence, are trying to secure more de-
 lay by bringing about a deadlock be- tween the house and senate. What could have been done in an hour has been dragged along an entire week. It is enough to make men suspect trickery somewhere, even if they can't exactly locate it.
 Mir. Mckinley claims that he is anx- ious to go right ahead and drive the Spaniards out of Cuba just as soon as congress clothes him with the necessary authority, and it may be that he is, but the action of Hanna and his geace-aj- any-price associates in the senate iu schemng in every conceivable manner 10 get 5afov ~'H rr.'-a .'.a claim jouhte7 by some until actual proof Is given hy orders to the fleet at Key West and the soldiers now heIng gathered aUsoutnern ports Every way one turns he is con- fronted by an Eff" just now If Mir. Mckinley acts upon that resolution, he will please the country; if he should exercise his constitutional right to hold it ten days before signing it, he would rouse the country to state of lndigna- ton.
 Nothing manlier nor truer has been said during this session of congress than the reply of Representative Bailey, of Texas, to the taunt that he had lost his head, when he hotly replied what he characterized as ungentlemanly inter- ruptions on the part of Representative alzell, of fPennsylvanIa. 'That a man may lose his temper under very great provocation," said MT. Bailey, lis very natural thing; but men may lose their tempers and still not lose their heads. But if in order for a man to pre- serve his equanimity and appear cool he must allow insults to pass unanswer- ed, then 1 prefer to be chased with those who lose their heads. l would in fnitely rather lose ny head in resenting an insult than to lose ny self respect by submitting to one :"
 Senator Money apologized to the sen ate for having been unparlamentary in calling Senator Wellington liar when the latter charged that the former had gone to Cuba as agent for newspaper, but he did not and has not apologized to Wellington. On the contrary, he took especial pains to emphasil his personal responsibility outside of the senate chamber for the language There is probably not a man in the senate who IS so absolutely friendless as Yelling ton, and it is all his own fault too. It seems impossible for him to let an Op- portunity go by to make a monkey of He alone of all the senators said in his speech that we have no req son or cause to fight Spain.
 Although there have been all sorts oi denials concerning an attempted Euro pean intervention by force at the last minute to prevent the United States taking Cuba away from Spain, 1t IS fact that members of the administration have been sounded by European diPlo- mats for the purpose ot ascertalnlng how a bluff at intervention on the part of the so-called concerted powers" of Europe would be received. To the cred- it of the men who were approached 1t can be stated that every one of them replied promptly that any bluff of that kind would at once be called-that it would be an infringement on the Mon roe doctrine that would not, could not, be tolerated by an American adminis- ton. Archbishop Ireland took that view from the first, and informed the Pope that the United States would brook no European interference; i; that whatever would be accomplished by European influence would be in Spain. . T he Archbishop, who was in Washing