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Show RESOLUTIONS DBOLARINO WAR llflrrnt li Marvh In lliai lli-at Heveral lr the t.n.le. 1 Washington, Marsh W llpfrvat. tire Marsh of Itllnol. chairman of lite houte eouimlttee on the mllltla, today Introduced Joint retolutlont declaring war bolweeu the gorerument of Spain and ita dependeneteei nnd the Untied . , States and her territories 11 I as follona That mr l and the same It hereby declared to cxltl botwicu the government govern-ment of Spain and hor depetidcn!ci and tho United Htatos and her territories terri-tories and that the President of the I'd I ted Htate I hereby nulhorlsed lo ute the whole land and nnr.il fore of tho United Htatet, including thn mllltla nnd the naval tullltln thereof, to carry the tame Into effect Mr Manh aald that while prior to the submlttlon of tho Maine report, he had not believed it pontlble that tho bpanlsh government hud anything to do with the Maine disaster, Hu report hat eelabllihcd enclnlrey that tho Malno wa blown up by a submarine mine, and that the mine could not have been placed then hy prlraio parllc It could haro been placed there, ho aald, by no other power than that which control tho Uland lie added that he believed that a government that could deliberately atarre 300,000 men, women and children, la capable ot Juat auch an act llepreaentatlre llartman, of Montana, Mon-tana, today Introduced a retolutlon In the houte, declaring that the United Htatea recogntret the Independence of the republic of Cuba, and pledge tho full measure of lit aupporl for tho maintenance of that Independence In the senate Henator Itatvlln Introduced Intro-duced Hit only dlrrct retolutlon for war, though Henator Kry resolution had the aame effect, though couched In more dlplomalla language Mr, llanltns' retolutlon quite lengthy, and act out the facta from the beginning begin-ning of the war to the preient time, concluding at followa "Keiolrrd, by the tenate and houto of repretentatlrca of the United Htate of America, In eongrctt atttmblcd, that tho Independence of the republlo of Cuba be and the aamo It hereby reo ognlxed, and that war ngalntl the kingdom of Hpaln be, nnd the aamo It, hereby declared, and that thoprcil-dent thoprcil-dent It hereby authorized aud directed toomploy the land and naval fnri.es of the United Htatet of America to wage auch war totuccctt " henator V'ry'e retolutlon differed from thli only in the fact that it authorized au-thorized tho prettdenlto "take auch effective alept at would result In the speedy termination of war In Cuba anil the withdrawal of the military and . naralforce of Hpaln," without referr Ing to active hottllltle Resolution recognising the Independence Inde-pendence of Cuba went offered by Senator Sen-ator Allen ot Nebraska and t'orakor of Ohio All were referred to oora- mlltoea Urely time arc eipected when they are returned for contldera-tlon, contldera-tlon, and the bellof I quite general among public men that unlet Hpaln make atonemont within forty-eight hours, war will be dcolnred |