The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-16
The Proceedings.

Washington, Dec. 15.-In the absence
of the vice-president, Mr.. Frye, (Rep.
Me.), presided at the opening of to-
days session. Prayer was offered by
the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage.- A re-
port of the final ascertainment of the
| election of the president and vice
president in the state of Arkansas was
presented and placed on file.
The credentials of Edmund Winston
Pettus, as senator from the state of
Alabama to succeed Mr. Pugh. were
presented by Mr.. Morgan, (Dem. Ala.),
and placed on file. The concurrent res
olution of the holiday recess from
Tuesday. Dec. %, to Tuesday, Jan. 5.
was reported back from the committee
ON appropriations sand concurred in.
The pension appropriation bill was re-
ported back from the same committee
and Mr. Hale, (ReD. Me), gave notice
that he would call it UP tomorrow.
MONEY AND ELECTIONS.
Mir. Allen (Pop.), Nebraska. offered a
resolution for appointment by the SEN
ate of a committee of nine senators on
the use of money in elections, with in
structions to investigate thoroughly the
extent to which money was used, if
any, in connection with the recent
presidential election, either in promot-
ing nominations or influencing in any
manner the choice of presidential cleo
tors, and to inquire whether or not any
such expenditures were excessive ille-
gal, corrupt or unlawful; and especially
to inquire into and ascertain to what
extent for such purposes the owners of
silver mines, gold mines, the bankers,
the manufacturers, the railroads or
other corporations or millionaires of
all classes, made contributions ind
what contributions. if any. were made
abroad. and to report to the senate, all
the facts, and whether or not, in the
opinion of the committee, any legisla-
ton of congress is expedient and neces-
sary to lessen or to prevent the use of
money in the elections. The committee
is to sit during the present session of
congress, and until the first Monday of
December. 1897.
Mr.. Allen sent to the clerks desk and
had read, in connection with the reso-
luton. an editorial article from the
New York Tribune of December II,
headed The Silver Outbreak" then one
from the Farm. Field and Fireside of
Chicago. of December 5, headed 1.-THE
Election Echoes. The resolution was
then, under the rules. referred TO the
committee on contingent expenses
MORGAN ARRAIGNS SPAIN
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Morgan (Dem.), Alabama, request
ing the president TO furnish copies of
papers relating to the condition of af-
fairs in Cuba as to the Competitor case,
was taken up, and Mr.. Morgan adj
dressed the senate on the subject.
The people and the property of the
island were, he declared, the prey of
commissioned guerrillas who had be-
come robbers, cutthroats, assassins,
ravishers and pirates, and an end had
and fire. In commenting upon the
presidents message, Mr.. Morgan said
that it was a marked feature in it that
the president assumed that the issue
between Cuba and Spain was either in
dependence or determination. The
president had warned Spain that the
time for decisive action was near at
hand, and if he should now say that
the time had arrived the American peo-
pie would sustain him. American citi-
zens of Cuba had rights under the law
of nations which the courts of the
United States and of all neutral
countries would protect and enforce
even in despite of opposition from the
president if he should oppose them
The United States government would
be in the most humiliating state. of
'innocuous dissuetude" if it extended
no helping hand to the sufferers in
Cuba, and if it refused to forbid fur
Their devastation and death, which a
cruel government was now infiicting
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