The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-04-20

Spain and Her Nefario1s Pelide:- The
Maino as an Issue.
War between the United States and
Spain was the sole topic OF discussion
in tbs United States Senate Wednes-
day. A full quarter of an hour before
the Senate was to convene, Mr. Davis,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, entered the chamber and quiet.
" went to his seat in the cantre Of the
Republican side. He carefully placed
on his desk a package. which all in
tuitively knew to be the fateful reso'
luton and report from his committee
upon which peace or war might hinge.
The cham Der filed rapidly, and
when the Vice Presidents gavel fell
nearly every Senator wss at his desk.
Scarcely five minutes had elapsed af-
ter the session convened before the
Vics President recognized Mr.. Davis
Mr.. Davis presented to the Senate the
resolution and report from his com.
mittee and reg uested that they be read
The report was terrific arraignment
of Spain and her policies, yet SO eager
were all to hear every word that not
the slightest demonstration occurred
throughout the reading. The resolu'
ticns and report are as follows:
TEE REVOLUTIONS.
"Whereas the abhorent conditions
which have existed for more than
three years in the Island OF Cuba, sc
near our own borders, have shocked
the moral sense of the people of the
United States, have been a disgrace to
Christian civilization, eliminating, as
they have, in the destruction OF q
United States battleship, with two
hundred and sixty six Of its officers
and crew, while on a friendly visit in
the harbor OF Havana, and cannot
longer be endured. as has been said by
the President of the Uoited States in
bis message to Congress Of April II,
1898, upon which the action of Con-
gress was invited, therefore,
Resolved, First, That the people OF
the Island OF Cuba are and of right
ought to be free and independent
Second, That it is the duty of the
United States to demand and the gov
ernment Of the United States doe
hereby demand that the government
of Spain at once relinouish its author
ity and the government in the island
of Cuba and withdraw its land and
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters.
Third. That the President Of the
United Stotes be, ana Ge hereby is,
directed and empowered to Use the en-
tire land and naval forces of the Uni
ted States and to call into the actual
service of the United States the militia
of the several states to such extent as
may be necessary to carry these reso
lutions into effect.
The report of the Senate committee
on foreign relations on the Cuban sit
uation was made by Senator Davis,
chairman of that com mittee, and was
a very thorough review of the entire
situation and strong presentation OF
the facts which have led the commit
tee to its conclusions. The report takes
up the Maine disaster as the leading
topic for consideration and plunges
into that question in its first sentence
which is as follows:
THE MAINE DISASTER.
"The destruction of The United States
battleship Maine, Of two of ner Ecers
and 264 of her crew in the harbor OF
Havana on the night OF February Is,
1898, excited to an unprecedented de.
gree the compassion and resentment
Of the American people. "
Manifestations of that resentment
we're suspended, although the feeling
was rot allayed by the self-restraint
Of our people, who determined to hold
their judgment in suspension concern.
ing their ultimate action until an on.
cial investigation should disclose the
cause of that great disaster and enable
them by direct or crcumstantial testi
mony to impute the responsibility
therefor.
THAT investigation had been made.
It was conducted with judicial thor
oughness and deliberation. The diff.
Guilty of demonstration by conclusive
proof the efficient personal cause OF
that sinister event was the usual one
I of exposing plotted and mysterious
crimes. No such difficulty, however,
obscures its oGclal and responsible
cause"
The committee say that the e1plo-
sion of the Maine was linked with g
series Of precedent traniaction, (which
cannot ID reason be disconnected from
it." With animus by Spain so plain
ly apparent that no one can even
pIausloly deny its existence, it is
merely one reason for the conclusion
TO which the investigating mind must
come in considering the entire subject
of the resolutions of the United States
with that government" :"
Concluding this portion Of its pres
entation, the committee says:
the duplicity, per6dy, and cruelty
of the Spanish character, as they al
| ways have been, arc demonstrated still
/ to continue by their manifestions dur
! lag the present war in Cuba. AL
these circumstances, considered cunu-
Iatively, warrant the conclusion that
the destruction Of the Maine was com
passed either by the official act of the
Spanish authorities (aud the ascer
| tainment of the particular person is
not materiaD or was made possible By
negligence on their part SO willln :
and gross SIS to be equivalent in cul.
paDIllty to positive CRIMINAL action"
ACTION DEFERRED.
Mr.. Hoar demanded mat the reso-
lutious lie over under the rules until
Friday. The Vice President sustained
The point.
Senator Turpie then presented the
report OF the minority OF the commit.
tec, as follows:
The undersigned, members of the
committee on foreign relations, COR
daily concur in the report made upon
the CUBAN resolutions, but we favor
the immediate recognition of the Re.
public OF Cubs as organized in that