The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-16
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! the Chief Executive.
Mr.. Wolcott denounced the action Of
! Spain since the terrible tragedy in Ha
| yana harbor.
! "War must come or Cuba must he
| free" he said" No other answer will he
| accepted by our people"
| Mr.. Spooner followed with brilliant
defence of the conduct of the President
! throughout the pending crisis, and dis
cussed at length his obligations to the
country. and to the world in The preseryd-
ton of peace. if peace were possible.
Mr. Spooner went to considerable
| length into the legal side of the question
and argued against the recognition of
indeupenden
independence of Cuba.
The course of thorough and analyti-
cal discussion of the Maine disaster NJ.
Spooner with impressiveness called at
tention to a striking and significant fact.
He had carefully read the findings of the
Spanish Board of Inquiry, and al the
testimony offered before the moard
One fact stolod out us inculpatoly of
Spain. If" declared Mr.. Spooner
slowly and emphatically, that Spanish
board could have established that there
was no mine in the harbor or under the
Maine, they would have been swift to
prove it, Yet this report shows that
not a single witness was called to give
evidence i'm support of that contention,
and no evidence in support of it was ad-
duced.
THAT there was Spanish completely in
the blowing up Of the Maine-that Spain
is responsible for that awful horror
that gigantic murder, under our flag, no
American doubts. And it would be in
a righteous cause that above our ships
of war when they enter the harbOr of
Havana the signalled legend will float
.'Remember the Maine'-"R Remember the
Maine
Mr. Chiffon and Mr.. Teller also spoke
in favor of recognizing Independence.
Mr.. Stewart was the lpaSt speaker OF
the day, and he too, favored resOlu-
ton recognizing the Cuban republic AT
the conclusion of his address the Senate.
at 1915 O'Clock p. M, adjourned until
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
WAR DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Washington. ID. c.. April 15.-Several
important and decisive steps in the work
of war preparations were taken by the
Navy Department to-day. 1t was de-
tIutN w dSSiSh lilN AItbNdi AN'St' NNf ~
New York. New Jersey. Massachusetts,
Maryland and Michigan to the five aux
iliary cruisers. hereafter to be known as
patrol boats. These ships are the
Prairie. tile Dixie. the Yankee, the
! Yosemite and either the Venezuela or
Yorktown. the latter of which was pur-
chased to-day. The question of the
American Line steamers was also wound
up to-day with the decision to charter
all four of them. the st. Louis, ST. Paul
Paris and New York. The two first
mentioned have already been acquired
by the department, though the form OF
acquisition was tentative. the department
being undecided whether it would pur-
chase these two only. or charter all
four. With the announcement that
these magnificent ships had been added
TO the auxiliary fleet, came the state
ment that the department also had pnr-
chased the Yorktown, of the Old Do
minion Line. and the Yumur of the
Ward Line With these additions the
fleet of converted vessels now includes
the pick of the ocean liners and coastlng
steamers running under the American
flag. As in all instances the prices paid
are withheld by the department.
But of greater moment than any OF
these developments was the re-opening
of negotiations for the purchase of two
warships and several torpedo boats from
Chile and Argentine. One of the
cruisers is the Chilean cruiser Odig-
gins. Just completed ut an English yard,
and regarded as one of the most fOrnlda-
bic of her class aloat.
MOVEMENT or GULF TROOPS.
Atlanta. Ga, April 15.-The order OF
the War Department sending the lnlah-
try TO the coast and the cavalry 10
Chickamauga created considerable STIR
at army headquarters here. DEFINITE or
ders concerning the troops III the Depar'-
ment Of the Gulf were received late
this afternoon and Adjutant General
Hall in the absence of General Graham
issued the necessary instructions TO-
night.
Company H., of the Fifth Infantry,
left Fort Mcpherson tonight for 1yDee
Island. Another company which was or
dered to Sullvan's Island by General
Graham tonight will leave i'll the morn
ing. The hustle incident to the depar-
ture of these troops was increased When
orders reached the post to send the entire
garrison to the front. Men were put to
NOEk IdthlIS tciltS anu OlilCi hCiV NA"'tf
ments and taking wagons apart ready for
shipment. The work was kept up all
night and the men win probably be On
their way to Tampa in "A hours.
General Graham will reach Atlanta at
) o'clock tomorrow morning.
CAMP BOYNTON.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 15.-The
Widow Glenn field. in the Chickamauga
Park, is covered with the white tents
of the Twenty Fifth Infantry which
reached there at 10 o'clock this morn
ing.
The first order issued by Col. Burt was
TO name the camp Camp BoyntOn.
AT o'clock guard was mounted and
the camp was running under the regular
military routine as if it had been there
for five years.
There never was a regiment in better
heart or more anxious to have chance
at the Spaniards than the Twenty-Fifth.
RESOLUTION FOR WAR.
Wasbington D. c. Anril Ex-senator