Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1898 — WAR TALK IN SENATE. [ARTICLE]

WAR TALK IN SENATE.

Resolutions Introduced by Frye, Foraker and Rawlins. STORM GATHERS AT CAPITOL Two Senators Cail for Belligerent Action Against Spain. WANT CUBANS’ WOES ENDED Upper House of Congress a Scene of Intense Excitement. Rawlins of Utah Offers Resolution Recognizing the Independence of Cuba and Declaring War Against Spain—Allen and Foraker Offer Resolutions Recognizing Cuban Inde-pendence-Senator Mason Makes a Red-Hot Speech in Favor of WarGalleries Applaud Bellicose Sentiments. Washington correspondence: The Senate plunged into the Cuban question Tuesday with a merciless disregard for the President’s peace plan. Two Republican members of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senators Foraker and Frye, took the lead. Four resolutions on Cuba were introduced in rapid succession. Senator Frye of Maine, a conservative member of the Foreign Relations Committee, who by precedent of long service was entitled to the chairmanship of foreign relations, but yielded to Senator Davis, offered a resolution calling upon the President to intervene at once by force to stop the war in Cuba. Senator Foraker’s resolution recognized the independence of the Cuban republic. Rawlins (Utah) offered one declaring a state of war between Spain and the United States. Allen (Neb.) offered one recognizing independence and Senator Foraker said he would insist upon early consideration of his resolution. Mason (Ill.) followed the introduction of the resolutions in the Senate with a vigorous war speech. He described vividly the disaster to the Maine. He said that if ninety of the victims had been Senators or sons of Senators we would not have been forty days declaring war. Yet the lives of all Americans were sacred alike under our law and equally entitled to consideration. Mr. Mason said the catastrophe should be replied to vigorously. He could not speak for others, but for himself be was for war. This declaration brought out a vigorous outburst of applause from the galleries. The Illinois Senator declared there could be no peace so long as a European nation owns and butchers its slaves on this hemisphere. He said it was not necessary for the Maine court to fix the rcsponsibilitay. The law did that. If it was a torpedo or a mine it was a Spanish torpedo or a Spanish mine. Hence Spain must answer. He would oppose any proposition looking to indemnity, as he would ! oppose making a diplomatic incident of . the catastrophe. He would oppose any kind 01 autonomy or any plan to assist Spain, but his demand was that the Spanish flag should be driven from the western hemisphere. Neither did he believe Cuba I should be required to pay an indemnity to Spain. “We are told,” he said, “we must wait on the Spanish elections, but if Spanish elections are ns rotten as Spanish diplomacy we had better not wait. Let us awake,” said Mr. Mason, in conclusion, “to glorious war, as did our fathers — a war that shall insure the honor and respect of our flag all over the world.”