The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-13
AGGRESSIVE MEMBERS WIN
CUBAN CONFERENCE HEED BY RE.
 PUBLICAN ENTERTAINMENT

By Practically Unanimous Vote They Decide to Work in Harmony With the House Foreign Affairs Committee After
 Being Assured That the Committee will Report an Aggress ve Resolution.
 Washington, April 12.-By prac- tically unanimous vote the Cuban con-
 ference of republican representatives decided tonight to work in harmony with the house foreign affairs com
 mittee on representations of the lat
 ter's firm position to be incorporated
 in report to the house expected to- step yet taken by the body of about three score of aggressive republican
 members whose course has been to- wards radical action. They were in
 session for an hour to-day after the
 adjournment of the house and after vigorous speeches and the submission
 of report on how the foreign affairs
 committee stood, decided that they
 would be satisfied with the report of
 the foreign affairs committee if it
 made no change in the position it an-
 nounced to the steering committee as follows:
 A preamble reciting the conditions in Cuba consisting largely of quota tions from the presidents message which constitutes a scathing arraign- | ment of Spanish misrule and the bar
 barities of the war, vigorous refer
 ence to the blowing up of the Maine
 and resolution authorizing, empow-
 ering and directing the president to in- tervene at once for the purpose of re- storing peace and order and the estab- lishment of firm, stable and indepen- dent government in Cuba with the free consent of the people of the island and | empowering the president to employ the army and navy forces of the United
 States for this purpose
 There were fifty-fiye representatives
 present and while several stood out | temporarily for more pronounced ac- tion on the line of recognition, they | finally agreed on the necessity of unify- l ing in the conclusion finally adopted. | MT. Hopkins of Illinois presided and prominent among others who attended were Messrs. Pearce, Joyce and Bar l tholdt, Beiknap, Mann, Marsh, Lori mer, Fletcher, Morris, Brownlow, Gib- | son, Muss, Barber, Subway, Cromwell,
 Aldrich, Southwick Mitchell, Hicks,
 Johnson and Weymouth.
 1 During the afternoon the steering l committee of nine had been before the | republican members of the house for | eign affairs committee and secured an ! informal statement of it's position. The | members of that committee stated they | had agreed to a resolution to be re- | ported tomorrow, substantially as 1 cited above with the exception of the l words and independent" Some of the | members thought the resolution with | that omission would accomplish the | same ends as with the specific mention | of independence and might avoid un-
 pleasant complications that might pos
 sibly arise with it's use. The steering
 committee disagreed with that view, 1 however, and after some parleying the | foreign affairs committee agreed to
 make it read "and independent
 At the confTence tonight the re-
 suits of the steering committees visit was reported. The resolution of the 1 foreign affairs committee proposed
 was discussed. MT. Marsh made dra-
 matic speech, in which he held that
 the action proposed was not enough, l that he believed that congress should | at once declare that a state of war be- | tween the United States and Spain now existed Several others followed in 1 knd but most of the speakers made 1 temperate remarks, largely attributable | to the absolute necessity of reaching | some form of agreement within the
 ranks of the republican party. The l other speakers included Messrs Belk-
 nap, Lorimer, Mann, Bartholdt, Morris and Joy. Finally votes were taken on
 the proposition to accept resolution
 of the substance cited and to agree | that that should be the minimum &C., | tion that would be acceptable to the conference and the agreement on both propositions was emphatic and decisive. It was concluded that the members of | the steering committee should see
 members of the foreign affairs commit I tee tonight to learn if any action fur ther than that that had been communi- cated had been taken, with view to
 proposition for immediate action to- l morrow in case of an attenuation of the | foreign affairs committees policy. The | conference adjourned subject to imme- 1 diate assembling prepared for prompt
 action at the call of Chairman Hop- l kins, unless another conference should l be deemed unnecessary in view of satis- l faction with the results obtained. ] The democratic members of the for eign affairs committee held a meeting and adopted unanimously the follow | ing resolution, which they will offer in committee as a substitute for the ma- | jority report:
 Resolved: Section 1-The United States government hereby recognizes
 the independence of the republic of | Cuba.
 | Section 2-That moved thereto by
 many considerations of humanity, of interest and of provocation, among
 which is the deliberate destruction of the battleship Maine, the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, l directed to employ immediately the