| Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS Th The newspapers generally insist that thai the wreck of the battleship Maine Maint should be ba removed San Francisco Chronicle It i is past east twelve years since bince the tho Maine aine went Sown clown own and ana in in twelve years ears more more- it may maybe maybe be safe enough to 10 Drin bring her herup up Tip am an alid shamo shame the devil dovil Providence J Journal One One bu hundred and sixty of the Maines Maine's dead ar are buried at Arlington twenty-five twenty at Key KeyWest KeyWest West Vest and three sixty-three in the tho mud of Havana harbor The country wishes to give an hon rable interment to the remains of these three sixty-three and incidentally incidentally inci inci- dentally to obtain what further light lightS is S tin the cause of the wreck Troy roy Times A long step toward action which the American people will wil commend heartily was taken when the house of representatives at Washington passed the bill bilI providing for raising ami ani removing i tile the wreck of the battleship battleship battle battle- ship Maine in Havana harbor Detroit Free Freo Press The president of the United States has repeatedly urged the raising and removal of the Maine laine and arni various various other authoritative voices have likewise been heard to tho the same iamo purpose and it is entirely safe to say that tho the movement in congress to finally finay carry out this demand will havethe have llave the he approval of the best sentiment of the tho he nation St. St Louis Post Dispatch The government gov gov- of the United States should remove remove re re- move moe the broken and wrecked hulk Such bodies as are found within il it should be brought homo home for honored honor burial in in some national cemetery Cleveland Leader In the long loni longview longview view of history the American republic cannot afford to leavo leave open to question question ques queSt tion the nature of the explosion which wrecked tho the Maine Justice must be hi bedone bedone done to Spain if the battleship was not blown up from outside In any ease case the truth must be made known Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing less will serve the needs of tho the nation nation nation na na- tion and the tho world Philadelphia Record The passage by tho the hous of representatives of the tho bill bIB appropriating g money to raise the battleship Maine lying in iii Havana Haan barbor har bar 1 bor Ol with the consent of the tho Cuban authorities authorities au au- will no doubt receive the sanc sane sanction sanction tion lion of the he senate Tho failure of congress congress con con- gress to raise this ill fated vessel and ande g give e proper burial to the dead seamen who went down with her has long been the subject of sinister conjecture New York Tribune Thero There will be deep and widespread gratification at the action of the tho house of representatives in m in passing Mr Louds Loud's bill biB for tho the raising raising rais rais- ing and removal of the wreck of the theM M Maine ine and the proper disposition of the remains of the tho crew which may be bo found The reasons for such work are aro numerous and urgent while not one has been presented against it which is is of serious weight Pittsburg Dispatch Of late years there has been a noticeable veering around to the tho view that the tho hull should be removed and the victims accorded burial in their own land If which however does not seem at all probable the removal should disclose that the Maine was sunk in another way from I that commonly believed the truth will hurt no one and cannot alter what has happened No one now doubts that tho the destruction of the Maine supposedly hastened the tho in in- in by ly Spaniards m merely rely evitable Washington ton Star Ever Ever since the destruction of the battleship there has been an unceasing chorus of demands not nt only from the tha press hut but fr from pa na- na tr organizations organization that th at the tho United States give decent interment to tho the victims victims vic vie tims tinis of the wreck The action of the house was literally in in response to a virtually unanimous public sentiment and the will doubtless give heed to the universal that the wreck of the Maine Maino should bo raised without further delay |
