Senators Talk War

Washington, March 29. - Discussen of the Cuban question, in any oi its phases, is evidently an irresistible attraction. The prospective consideration oL the critical problem in the senate drew anothor tremendous crowd to the galleries. and, as on the previous day when Cuba was the foremost topic, hundreds of people jammed the corridors, disappointed because they could not gain admission. Rawlins of Utah introduced a joint resolution recognlzing the independence of Cuba and declaring war against Spain. Foraker offered a resolution for Cuban independence. He spoke of the delays caused by the De Lome incident and the Maine incident, but declared that the Cuban question would come up whatever was done with the Maine. Prye introduced a resolution reciting tha conditions in Cuba, and directing the president in his discretion to take steps to drive the naval and military forces from the island. The resolutions went to the senate committee on foreign relations. War Speech by Masón. Masón 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. Mason said the catastrophe should be replied to vigorously. He could not speak for others, but for himself he was for war. This declaration brought out a vlgorous outburst of applause from the galleries He 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 responsibility. The law did that. If it was a torpedo or a mine it was a Spanish torpedo or a Spanish mine. Say Spain Mut Angwer. Henee, 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 of 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 that Cuba 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 as rotten as Spanish diplomaey we had better not wait." "Let us awake," said Mason, in conclusión, "to giorious war as did our fathers - a war that sha 11 insure the honor and respect of uur flag all over the world." May Overrule the Chair. A very determined movement is on foot among the members of the house in which prominent men of both parties are co-operating to bring a proposition for intervention in Cuba to a vote, if necessary, by arbitrarily overruling the chair. The situation is being thoroughly canvassed, particularly on the Republican side, as the Democratie leaders have given assu ranees of their cooperatlon as soon as the Republicans who are engineering the scheme are ready. Huil, chairman of the military committee, is at the head of the movement on the Republican side, and it is asserted with great positiveness that t has decided strength. Kesolutiun for Iutervention. It was the intention of these members :o attach a resolution for intervention o the appropriation for the relief of the ubans, which it was expected the presdent would ask for in a message Tuesday, and it is claimed that it was the fear of this which induced the president to change his plans and withhold :he message. If the message is not sent n the programmp is to present a resoution and if it is ruled out of order, to overturn the ruling of the chair. A very prominent member who is using all his energies to promote the foregong programmp aaya that there will be no delay beyond Thursday. War Kesolution in the House. Marsh of Illinois, chairman of the house committae on the militia, introduced the following joint resolution declaring uar between the government of Spain and its dependencies and the United States and her territories: It is as follows: "That war be and the same ia hereby declared to exist between the Kovernment of Spain and her dependencies and the United States and her territories, and that the president of the United States is hereby authorized to use the vhole land and naval foree of the United States, including the militia and the nav&I militia thereof, to arry the same into effect."