. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. n, al-though Minister Woodford was directed todemand the recall of the disgraced first Spain seemed disposed to stand onher dignity and refused to apologize, but theMaine disaster placed the Spanish govern-ment in a perilous position and it disclaimedofficially and in a positive manner the re-flections contained in the De Lome letter. While the naval board of inquiry was hold-ing sessions in Havana-and Key West, gath-ering testimony relating to the Maine ex-plosion, the trend of daily
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. n, al-though Minister Woodford was directed todemand the recall of the disgraced first Spain seemed disposed to stand onher dignity and refused to apologize, but theMaine disaster placed the Spanish govern-ment in a perilous position and it disclaimedofficially and in a positive manner the re-flections contained in the De Lome letter. While the naval board of inquiry was hold-ing sessions in Havana-and Key West, gath-ering testimony relating to the Maine ex-plosion, the trend of daily events set unmis-takably toward trouble with Spain. v Con-gress took this view of the case, for onMarch 8 the house of representatives, by aunanimous vote, appropriated $50,000,000 tobe used at the discretion of the president innational defenses. The next day the billwas passed through the senate and wassigned by the president, and at once agentswere sent abroad to purchase warships. American warships were ordered to as-semble at Key West. Congress authorized . THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. AMERICAN SOLDIERS GRAVES OX THE ROYAL ROAD-SANTIAGO. the formation of several additional regimentsin the regular army; contracts were let forcoal for the navy, ammunition and war sup-plies; orders were issued by the war de-partment to man all coast fortifications, andword came from the Philippine islands thatthe insurgents, encouraged by the turbulent prospect, had renewed the rebellion againstSpain with increased vigor. On March 14 the navy department an-nounced that two cruisers, which were beingbuilt for Brazil in England, had been pur-chased by the United States. On the sameday a Spanish torpedo flotilla set sail from 12 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES Cadiz, Spain, ostensibly for the Canaries,where Admiral Cerveras squadron alreadyhad assembled. Senator Proctor, who had gone to Cuba per-sonally to satisfy himself concerning theclaims made by Cuban sympathizers that theSpaniards were
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