CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9144, 21 April 1898, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

SPAIN AND AMERICA.

SCENES IN CONGRESS

DUKATION OF THE WAR.

SPANISH PROTESTS.

AMERICAN ULTIMATUM-ONE DAY TO YIELD

RUMORS PROM ITALY.

United Press Association,

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,

(Received April 21, 12.15 am.)

Washington, April 20. The struggle in Congress lasted seventeen hours, until the persistence o! the House convinced the extremists in the Senate that it was impossible to carry a resolution committing the Government to the recognition of the Cuban Republic. , ~, . . ~ The galleries and lobbies ot tne Capitol were thronged with men and women until three in the morning. The Senate finally voted for the compromise already cabled by 42 votes to 35, the House carrying it by 310 to 6. , There were many angry scenes and emotional incidents, party politics dominating the situation. The was intense national relief when the decision was known. There is a general feeling that the war will be short and little blood shed. The Spaniards, however, declare that it will last three years, and that they will fight to the last. Madrid, April 20.

Premier Sagasta, addressing his supporters in the Cortes preparatory to ita opening, passionately protested against the infamous aspersions made by America on Spanish honor. Hβ said that at the instance of the Pope and the European Powers Spain had made several concessions, but now America was driving Spain to war. Spaia would never yield territory to menaces. Acts, not words, were now necessary. London, April 20. *Mr Smalley, the Jtfew York correspondent of The Times, cables to that journal that President M'Kinley has signed the resolution arrived at by Congress. On the other hand a Eeuter s message says that President M'Kinley will sign the resolution to-day, with an ultimatum giving Spain one day in which to yield. Anglo-Saxon opinion throughout the world is solid in favor oE America in the coming war with Spain. Bomk, April 20. L'ltalie, the Marquis di Eudini's organ, states that the Powers intend to request that the war between America and Spain be localised and confined to Cuban waters.