The herald., 1898-04-16
WAR IS VERY HORRIBLE
AND LOUD WOULD MUCH LIKE
TO AVOID IT
Conditions in Cuba Are Not Nice but
They Do Not Call for
Redress

NEW YORK, April 15.-Mr Loud of
California made this statement of the
reasons for voting against both the min
ority and majority reports, says the
Washington correspondent of the Times.
"In the first place." Mr.. Loud said, Il
regret war. / never would take sucn
steps as would lead to war until every
reasonable means had been exhausted
to preserve peace. While the conditions
that exist In Cuba have to certain
extent Mortified my sensibilities of what
is due from a government to It's people
yet l could not consent to the sacrifice
of lives of American citizens. The sac
rifice of many lives to save one has never
seemed to me the proper charitable view
to take of any situation.
"The only cause for war existing be-
tween this country and Spain is the de-
struction of the Maine. This country
was stopped from going to war on that
account on the report of it's own naval
Board of Inquiry, and no effort has been
made to discover who was responsible
for its destruction.
"Spain very promptly offered full rep
aration for the destruction Of the vessel
if it should be determined by arbitra-
ton that Spain was in any way re-
sponsible for it's destruction. We should
have Immediately pushed the destruc-
tion of the Maine, and If 1t was found
that Spain was in any way responsible
through any of its citizens or residents
of the island and did not Immediately
proceed to bring to justice and execute
the persons engaged therein and to offer
such other reparation as was necessary,
then we would have been justified in
Furnishing the Spanish nation with all
the power at our command.
IT don't believe any nation has right
to intervene and sacrifice the lives of it's
own citizens to save those of another
country.
81 regard the majority resolution as
a particularly vicious one, for the rea-
son that 1t not only promises war, but
threatens to involve us in other serious
complications. I regard it as danger
GUS precedent, too, to turn over the
war making power to the discretion of
the President, confident as 1 am that
the power would not be abused by Presi-
dent Mckinley"
Delay Welcomed
NEW YORK, April ia special to
the Tribune from Washington says:
The failure of the Senate to act on the
Cuban resolutions reported by the For
eign Relations Committee has given the
conservative element in that body the
necessary breathing space to rally their
own forces and to appeal to the sober
second thought of the extremists who
seem bent on taking an irrelevant and
unnecessary issue with the program of
Cuban Intervention framed by the Presi-
dent and overwhelmingly indorsed by
the House of Representatives. No
thorough and candid discussion could
fail, of course. to demonstrate the in
effectiveness of the Senate resolutions,
their inadequacy and one-sidedness as
compared with the more direct, explicit
and comprehensive instructions to the
Executive by the House.
Another twenty-four hours of serious
reflection has done much indeed to con-
vince the less inflammable and cool
headed members of the deliberative
branch of the impolicy of antagonizing
by some extreme expression Of senti-
ment the careful and settled plan Of
action already recommended by the
President and approved by the popular
House of Congress. That the Senate
may seek to stake its final judgment
against that of the Executive and the
House is still among the possibilities:
but every additional hour of delay en-
courages the hope that the conservative
leaders in the body may unite to FORE
stall the spectacle of a government di-
vided against itself on a most vital and
urgent question Of foreign policy, AND
may by the timely exercise Of spirit
of conciliation and moderation restore
that unity in national councils which
every consideration of interest and pa
triotism demands.