| Show LIUT I LIX IS POSITIVE Nothing but a Mine Could Have So Wrcckck the Maine I 1Mr We clowll Upon that Innt Could Not nltb Und that Slrtl t New York March 31LIut Commander Com-mander Marl Judge advocate of the court of Inquiry Into the Maine disaster disas-ter has remained his duties as executive execu-tive officer of the receiving ship Ver mont The lutnant commander released re-leased from the oath of secrecy in relation re-lation to the blowing up of the battleship battle-ship had this to say We know that the Maine was blown uJ by a min as surely as a physician knows it man was poisoned when he finds him suffering from the effects of such poison It was suggested that the conclu cuncu alone qf the board seemed based on circumstantial evidence Surely exclaimed 1Iut Cum mander Marlx You have not read carefully the report or the boar or you would not feel I a particle oC doubt as to hbw the Maine war destroyed The evidence was circumstantial t Is I true In the sense thai we did nut Und any remnant of the mine or find the person whoso hand caused the explosion explo-sion but I was conclusive The Maine keel was found blown upward her plate were blown Inward and nothing oi earth except 1 mine could have produced that result The effect of the explosion oC a mine on n ship is I as well known an the effect of a polson on the human system The wieck of the Maine was the mute Inconttsllble evidence of the explosion ex-plosion of a mine and after exhaustIng exhaust-Ing all available evidence the board has so reported athodlt Slu to r rri 31Klaty New York March 31 Patriotic men tlmcnts broke out strongly al the Very beginning ur the session oC the Nw York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church Bishop John r Ilurct alluded lo the war situation In his opening address and Rev J W Macomber amid tremendous applause suggested that the American Hag be displayed on the top of the church during the continuation of the confer Pace A resolution commending the action of President McKlnley during the present crlal wa adopted and ordered to he telegraphed to the chief executive lllihop Hurst In his address said We are today overshadowed and surrounded sur-rounded by something of a war cloud I have never been prouder of the American Christian people and es peclally oC the member oC our own church than I am today We are all united In a peaceloving I nd a liberty loving President Our President know mhat war man to the humblest hum-blest citizen His Idea on the subject were not gathered by reading about It He carried a musket and shouldered a knapsack as a private soldier He aw the horrors o war I know he sympathizes with that little Island to th south ot us I am sure that If we exercise a little pa sterols and n little coolness and put a little trust In those In authority all will come out zLIIon The following resolution was then adopted The bishop and members oC the Xw York annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church assembled assem-bled In this city of New York send their greeting to the Christian chief ot our Christian nation assuring him of aurng their confidence In his Patriotism courace and capacity ael that they Implore the God of nations to guard his person and grant him the wisdom that shall enable him to lead the republic re-public out of darkness Into light out of discord Into honorable peace out of consenting copartnership with barbarous bar-barous cruelty Into active alliance with Christian cvization |
