The Topeka State Journal

CUBA MUST BE FREE.
The Senate Committee Today Unanimously Agrees on The Cameron Resolution Recognizing the Independence OF 'REPUBLIC OF CUBA' The Resolution to Be Reported on Monday Next.
The Declaration Made More Emphatic Than Cameron's.

NEWS IN NEW YORK
Prices Recede Sharply When Information Reaches Wall St. Of the Action Taken By the Senate Committee.

Washington, Dec. 18—The foreign relations committee of the senate has agreed to report the Cameron Cuban resolution,

The Cameron resolution was as follows:

Resolved, By the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled that the independence of the republic of Cuba, be and the same is hereby acknowledged by the United States of America.

Section 2. That the United States should use its friendly offices with the government of Spain to close the war between Spain and Cuba.

Washington, Dec. 18—The senate foreign relations committee changed the Cameron resolution so as to make it more emphatic. The title was changed to read "Joint resolution acknowledging the independence of the republic of Cuba," the words "The republic of" being inserted. Instead of declaring that the United States "should use its friendly office," makes it read "The United States will do so."

The Cameron resolution as agreed upon by the foreign relations committee is as follows:

Resolved, By the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that the independence of the republic of Cuba, is hereby acknowledged by the United States of America.

Section 2. That the United States will use its friendly offices with the government of Spain to bring to a close the war between Spain and Cuba."

Washington, Dec. 18—Secretary Olney it is claimed by the members of the committee who favored action on Cuba did not have any new information to present and they say the committee knew as much about the condition of affairs in Cuba, as was known by the state department.

Secretary Olney urged that no action be taken at present and pointed out that there is no real government to recognize.

The agreement to report the Cameron resolution was reached immediately after Mr. Olney left the committee room, a quarter past 12 o'clock and was arrived at without division or expressed difference of opinion.

The only division was as to the time that the resolution should be reported to the senate. Senator Cameron moved its report on Monday next. Senator Sherman suggested that the report should not be put in until after the holidays. When the question was put to the committee the Cameron motion prevailed by a large majority.

EXCITEMENT IN WALL STREET
Wall street, 1:30 p. m.—The Washington dispatches defining the attitude of the senate committee on foreign relations concerning the Cuban affair created excitement in the stock exchange and prices receded very sharply. The railway stocks and sugar were the greatest sufferers. The declines in the active list ranged from 2 to 4 per cent.

The tone at this time is feverish. The more noteworthy declines were Burlington 3 7/8; sugar 3 3/8 cts.; Manhattan and Chicago gas, 3; Rock Island 2 3/4, and St. Paul and Reading 2 1/2.

UNANIMOUS FOR CUBA
Senate Committee as one Man on the Cameron Resolution Regarding Recognition.

Washington, Dec. 18—Secretary Olney did not make any statement to the senate foreign affairs committee regarding the attitude of foreign governments in case the United States took some action in favor of the Cuban revolutionists.

All that I can say as to our proceedings," said a member of the committee, "is that we adopted a motion to report the Cameron resolution immediately after Mr. Olney left.

Another member of the committee is responsible for the statement that there was no division on the proposition.

"Do you mean," he was asked, "that the committee was unanimous?"

"Yes, it amounts to that. There was some difference of opinion as to the time the report should be made, some of the members holding that the question should not be opened in the senate until after the holidays."