236 to meet, and the queen had given from her private fortune a million pesetas to the navy fund. In America the United States regulars were already moving southward byrail. But nevertheless the two countries were still at peace. Polo de Bernabe was at Washington,Woodford at Madrid. It was even said bysanguine men that war might still be averted, just asby adeathbed mensay that while there is life there is hope.

The two Houses had shown that a two-thirds majority could be obtained for a war resolution, a majority which wouldimposethe THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.

the morning of Tuesday, the 19th, that a joint resolution was at last accepted by both Houses. In themorning Mr. McKinley laid it before his Cabinet and discussed with them the form to be given to the ultimatum to Spain. The text of the resolution as actually adopted by Congress was the following:— " Whereas the abhorrent conditions which independence of Cuba, and the lengthy debate did not end in a vote till the 15th. It then carried by a majority of 07 to 21 a resolution recognising the Republic of Cuba, demanding the withdrawal of Spain from the island, and directing the President to use the United States army and navy to enforce the demand.

Spain had meanwhile summoned the Cortes have existed for more than three yearsintheisland of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shockedthe moral sense of thepeople of the United States, and have been a disgrace to Christian civilisation, and culminating as they have in the destruction of a United States battleship, with 266 of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit to the harbour of Havana, cannot longer be endured, as has been set forth by the President of theUnitedStates in his Messageto CongressonApril nth, 1898, upon which the action of Congress was requested: It is therefore resolved;— KING AI.KOS.so XIII. (From a /-holograph fy I'alentiitc, Madrid.)

will of Congress on the President andgivehim no choice but to act. But for this purpose the Senate and the Lower House must adopt the same resolution, and so far they were in disagreement. The Senate called for armed intervention to establish an independent Republic in Cuba. The House of Representatives called merely for immediate intervention to end the war,and hadrejected anamendment recognising the Republic.

It wasnot till between one and twoo'clock in " I.That the peopleof the islandof Cuba are, and ofright ought to be, free andindependent. " 2. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the D States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain shall at once relinquish its authority and government in the islandofCuba, and withdraw- its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.

"3. That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, directed and empowered to