The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-04-19
TUG OF WAR ON BETWEEN
SENATE AND HOUSE.
INVITATIONS OF A VETO.
Conservatives Are Hopeful Speaker
Reed Confident Mckinley WIN Be
Sustained Signs OF senate Yield
lag g-Promiscd That ResoIu-
tions Shall Go to presI.
dent Before Saturday.

WAsH1NGroN. April IL Indications
point to the conclusion that the House
will not concur in the Senate Cuban
resolution. The measure will then 90
into conference and it is expected,
according 20 opinion expressed by
prominent House members, that the
Turpie amendment. recognizing the
present insurgent government, will be
stricken out and in that form the
Senate resolution will be concurred in
by the House.
1t is known that number Of SEN
ators who voted 70. the Turpie
amendment are willing that the SEN
ate should yield on that point il the
House insists
The action OF the Senate declaring
for the recognition of Cubas indie
pcndence, against the direct and spe-
citic recommendation of the President.
has given the conservatives a rallying
cry from the standpoint Of party 10y
atty which proved very effective yes
terday
One of the most prominent Repub-
lican leaders on the floor Of the House
denominated that portion of the Sen.
ate resolutions direct assault" upon
the President which no loyal Repub-
lican could indorse.
And upon this theory Speaker Reed
and his lieutenants proceeded in their
campaign against concurrence iu the
Senate resolutions. All day long the
speakers rooms at the Shoreham were
like the headquarters of the comman-
der-in- chief OF an army He consulted
with his ieutenants, Messrs Diugley
Of Maine; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania;
Cannon, of Illinois, Grosvenor Of
Ohio, and Payne, of New York. lie
had seen Messrs. JOY, Of Missouri;
Lorimer, of Illinois; IIeatwole of Min
nesota, and other leaders of the Re-
publican opposition, and, through
other agencies, had thorough can
vass made of the Republican side of
tbs House. Last night he was con-
iident the Republicans of the house
could be marshaled against yielding
TO the Senate on the maine issue
The speakers lieutenants have held
out to their colleagues the assurance
that action should be had at every
subsequent stage of the proceedings
with dispatch, and that the resolu-
tions would go to the President as
finally agreed upon before Wednesday
morning But those who view the
situation spassionately do not be-
lieve that such expedition is possible.
There is n strong intimation that
delay is what is desired by those op-
posed TO war; in she hope of some ac-
tion by the Spanish cortes
Notwithstanding the large majority
for the resolution, Senator Hoar Of
Massachusetts urgently counseled tho
House leaders to reject tenaciously
the Senate's proposition. He assured
them that the Senate would not hold
out But possibly the strongest argu-
ment brought to bear was that the
President himself could not approve
any resolution which contained such
an invasion OF his prerogative, and
which SO plainly violated every prece-
dent OF international law.
This strong intimltion of a presi-
dental veto, which would involve an
entirely new start and the delays in
cident TO IT, had powerful influence,
although in certain quarters it was
asserted that a presidential veto
would be oyerridden.