The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-26
SENATOR BACON
FAV0RS CUBAN
INTERVENTION
GEORGIA SENATOR URGES PASS
AGE OF SUCH A LAW IN
CONGRESS.
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Atlantic Fleet is Ready to Surround
Island Republic for Protection of
J Life and Property of Americans,
, Threatened by Negro Rebels.

Washington, May Ex-senator Ba
ate today that the president would
have no authority of law for send
ing an armed force into Cuba, then
introduced a resolution which pro-
yided for instrCcting the committee
on Cuban relations to suggest legis-
lation authorizing Intervention under
the conditions provided in the So
called Platt amendment. This amend
ment, which applied to an old law
governs the United States court to-
ward Cuba
Before the senate passed the res
olution, Senator Bacon pointed out
that while the Platt amendment gave
fundamental authority for interfer-
ence, there never had been any spe-
cifc enactment prescribing the con-
ditions under which action might be
taken, and naming the American au-
thority which may decide this i'm
portant point.
Mr.. Bacon said the resolution had
no application to present conditions
in Cuba, but under pressure of a
question from Senator Rayner, ex-
pressed the opinion that congress
should be convened in extra session
if intervention in the preset crisis
should appear necessary after ad-
journment.
No intimation was given as to when
the committee might take up the
question.
Many Conflicting Reports. f..
From the mass of conflicting re-
ports that have reached the state and
war departments as to actual condi-
tions in Cuba, conclusion was drawn
today that crisis impends in the is
land, and that this is sufficient to
Justify full preparations for protect
ing American interests.
Therefore word was passed to the
navy to hold itself subject for call,
and at noon two divisions of the
great Atlantic fleet were under Or
ders to rendezvous at New York and
Hampton Roads, within striking dis
tance of the troubled zone.
The navy does not expect that the
battleships, as such, will be neces-
sary for Cuban operations, but 1t nap
pens that they furnish the only con-
venient means of providing sIfl-
cient number of the always ready"
marines at various points. on the Gu
ban coast to afford protection and
rallying points for Americans on the
island.
The immediate need for these ma
rines is believed to be the nelghpor-
hood of Nipe Bay, on the north coast
of the east end of Cuba, where an IN
vestment of nearly $2O,O00,O00 OF
American money is represented in the
great sugar plantations, iron mines
and other industries, within a range
of twenty or thirty miles.
100 Marines on Island.
Some of today's dispatches seemed
to point to the need of dlspatchlnS
marines to various plantations anu
American properties in the island TO
act as guards. Until the arrival or
the cruiser Prairie about Monday,Wltn
the battalion of marines, and the gun
boats Paducah and Nashville, prob
ably late today, there Is not mucn
of an American force to be used, as
only one company of marines, com
prising about 100 men, is kept at the
naval station.
There is no possibility of an agree
ment between the striking CUBAN
stevedores and the steamship hnes'
according to state department ad-
vices today. The fifteen days truce
ends at midnight and the stevedores
say they will walk out at that time
This will furnish another serious
complication to Cuba's troubles. The
importation of food supplies will be
stopped, which in turn has the serl-
GUS effect of cutting off customs re-
ceipts at time when the republic
needs them most.