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Agreement Is Reached

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Day
22
Month
April
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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Washington, April 20.- After one of the hardest fought battles between the two houses known in many years, congress at an early hour this raorning carne to an agreement upon I he most momentous qr.estion it has dealt with in a third of a century. The Cuban resolution was pas:ed, and sent to the president today. lts provisicns mean the expulsión of Spain from the island of Cuba by the armed torces of the United States. There ve:e many íoll calis in both houses, and each body held tenacicusly for its own resoluticB. The confarees had g:eit difficulty in agreeing. The first conference showed a determination on th2 part of the houss not to yiekl a s'.ng'.e point, and it was only after long consultation with the house leaders that they asroed to allow the lit'.lc words "are and" in the first section of the senate resolution, which declares that the people of Cuba are and of right ought to be free and independent. The resolution as finally adopted is that reported from the senate committee on foreign relations, with the addition of the fourth section, known as ihe Teller amendment, disclaiming any intention on the part of the United States to acquire Cuba. The conference report was quickly passed in the senate by a vote of 42 to 35. The house took considerable time, but adopted the report by the remarkable vote of 310 to G. The following voted against tho adoption of the report: Bouteile (rep., Me.), Brewer (dem., Ala.), Gardner (rep., N. J.), Johnson (rep., Ind.), Loud (rep., Cal.), McCall (rep., Mass.). The detailed vote on the adoption of the conference report in the senate was as follows: Yeas.- Aldrich. Allison, Baker, Bürrows, Carter, Chandler, Clark. Cullom, Da vis, Deboe. Elkins, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Foraker, Frye, Gailinger, Gear, Gray. Hale, Hanna, Hansbrough, Hawley, Kyle, Lodge, McBride, McMillan, Mason, Morgan, Morrill, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt (Conn.), Pritchard, Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Shoup Spooner, Warren, Wilson, Wolcott- 42. Nays. - Allen, Bacon, Berry, Bate Butler, Caffery, Cannon. Chilton, Clay. Cockrell, Daniel, Harris, Heitfeld, Jones (Ark.), Jones (Nev.), Kenney, Lindsay, McEnery, McLaurin, Mallory, Mantle, Martin, Mitchell, Money, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawüns, Roach, Stewart, Teller, Turley, Turner, Turpie, White- 35. The resolution in f uil is as follows: "Joint resolution lor the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the president of the fJnited States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect. "Whereas, The abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminatiijg, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battleship, with 266 of its offlcers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana, and cannot longer be endured, as has been set forth by thé president of the United States in nis message to congress of April 11. 189S, upon which the action of congress was invited; therefore, "Resolved, first, That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free ánd independent. "Second, That it is the duty of the United States to (Iemand, and the government of the Unïted States does hereby demand, that the government of Spain at once relinquish its anthority and governroent in the island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces rom Cuba and Cuban waters. "Third. That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the enfire land and naval forces of the United States, and to cali into actual service of the United States the militia of the several states, to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect. "Fourth, That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, ex?ept for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is aceomplished, to leave the goVernment and control of the island to its people."

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