Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — FOR RAISING OF THE MAINE [ARTICLE]

FOR RAISING OF THE MAINE

Item to This Effect In the Sundry Civil Bill. Washington Feb. 19.—The House committee on appropriations is to include in the sundry civil bill an item looking toward the raising df the battleship Maine, the wreck of tyhlch still lies in the Havana harbor. The subcommittee which is preparing the bill has decided tb Insert a clause which provides for a commission to investigate the condition of the wreck and to determine the feasibility and cost of raising it.