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Show THE MAINE. The plan of tho army engineers to whom is intrusted the raising of the Maine is first to surround the ship with a cofferdam and then pump the water out, so that by daylight the ship can be thoroughly examined, says the Salt Lake Telegram. This will be but in accordance accord-ance with the requirements of the law, which provides the means of raising the ship, for it comprehends the placing of her hull in such a position that "an expert investigation can be conducted to determine whether the explosion was an internal or an external one." The sinking of the ship may have hastened the declaration of war, but the war would have come without it. Indeed, while Mr. Cleveland was still president, he hinted very strongly that there must bo a cessation ces-sation of Spanish cruelties there, even at the cost of war, and the lately issued book of Captain General Weyler, in which he unfeelingly unfeel-ingly justifies those, cruelties, supplies sufficient proof that the war was put off too long. But the people w-ant the facts, whatever they may be. If it shall be found that the bottom of the ship was blown in, and that the magazines of the ship are still intact, or that the bottom was blown out from under a magazine on board the ship, the country wants to know the truth. Moreover, it wants the dead sailors within that hull taken out and given graves in our soil. When the cause is determined de-termined and the dead removed, then wc hope the wreck can be patched up, floated out to sea and given final sepulchre there. |