Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-12
WORK OF CONGRESS

y =ANAs "" III At'N
in the Delaware contested senatorship
was made in the senate to-day, when
Mr.. Mitchell of Oregon, presented Il
letter and accompanying records to
the senate, from III. A. Dupont, claim
ing the right to be admitted as a sen
Rtor from Delaware. Delaware's
Democratic senator, Mr.. Gray, there
upon did the courteous act Of moving
that the privileges of -e floor be
! given his Republican quasi-colleague
pending determination Of his case, Mr.,
Dupont was brought in and introduced
to the senators.
Mr.. Chandler rep, n. H presented
a mass of petitions alleging election
frauds in Alabama, and claiming the
election as governor of Reuben +.
kolb.
Several petitions for the recognition
of the Cuban insurgents were offered,
and Mr.. Squire (Rep., Wash.), in in
PRODUCING z bill for Notifications of
Atlantic, Pacific and lake ports, said
the senate was being asked TO extend
recognition to Cuban ~belligerents, and
TO firmly reassert the Monroe doctrine.
I'VE are talking of these matters as
though we had a chip on u should
ers," he added, land we go along in
blissful ignorance or inactual as to
the unfortified' condition Of our ports"
Mr.. HOar (Rep., Mass.) offered the
following: .......a
THAT the senate will support the
president in the most vigorous action
he may deem fit to take for the protec-
ton and security of American citizens
in Turkey and TO obtain dedreSs for
injuries committed upon such citizens
there
The Allen resolution of yesterday,
defining our foreign policy, was taken
up, and Mr.. Allen urged the recogni-
ton Of the rcyolutionists and the an
nexation of Cuba. He declared rflat
the foreign policy of the United States
had been "a hiss and a byword for the
last twenty-five years" ..#"
He specified the inaction in the case
of Mrs. Maybrick and ex-Consul Wal
Ter. The senator strongly urged the re-
assertion of Monroe doctrine, so broad
ened as to secure the ultimate with
drawaI of monarchial dependencies
from his continent. The resolution
was temporarily laid aside and the SEN
ate, after ten minutes executive SEES
sion, adjourned at 135 p. IN.
Washington, Dec. There was a
very good attendance when the senate
met at nOon to-day. The first bill in
troduced was one by Mr.. Mills Dem,
Tex for the coinage of the silver in
the treasury.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Chandler
Rep., n. H. for the coinage of silver
ut the ratio of i II to /, the bill to be-
come operative when England, Ger
many and France pass similar laws,
was listened to with great attention.
Mr.. Call Dem. Fla addressed the
senate in advocacy of his resolution
for the recognition of the belligerency
of the Cuban insurgents n for strict
neutrality by the United States In the
war. Mr.. Call drew a graphic picture
of the ruin, disagreement and bar
barous cruelty against which the
Cubans were ~contending and their
long struggle for freedom. He de-
scribed the former revolutions and de-
clared that the progress against
tyranny made by the native Cubans,
who maintained, as we had maintained
in 1TI6, that just government must de-
rive its authority from the consent of
the governed, entitled them TO recogni-
ton as belligerents and the neutrality
of other nations. lie considered it an
outrage that the United States should
not hold out an encouraging hand 10
those who We're struggling for indie
pendence. But instead Of speeding
the Cubans il their course, he insisted
that this government was actually re.
|. tarding the revolution-was, in fact,
furnishing aid to the Spanish tyrant.
This government, said ne. Ell
phatically, 'is responsible for many OF
the outrages that have been com,
mitted. | do not mean TO say that the
! president and his cabinet are RESPONSE.
BILE. but the attitude OF this govern.
, ment negatively, 10y moi recosnizire
|. the rayo..:icG!::s g hcii.scrents IL
: our ports and territory, is maintain.
ing today the power Of Spain on the
island of Cuba"
In conclusion, he described Cuba as
/, the queen of the Antilles, the future
. center of a confederated republic that
: would include all the islands of the
West Indies, aud called upon the com
5 mittee on foreign affairs to consider
, his resolution in the spirit of our fore.
fathers and report fayorably at an
early day.