The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-17
is FAR WORSE


more precious even than forms of
government are the mental and moral
qualities which make what we call our
race. While those stand unimpaired
all is safe. When those decline alb is
imperiled. They are exposed to but a
single danger, and that is by changing
the quality of our race and citizen
ship through the wholesale Snfusicn of
races, whose traditions and inherit
ances, whose thoughts and whose be-
liefs are wholly alien 10 ours, and with
whom We have never aSsimilated or
even been associated in the past. The
danger has begun. 1t Isl small as yet.
comparatively speaking, but it is large
enough to warn us to act while there
is yet time and while it can be done
easily and efficiently.
There lies the peril at the portals
of our land; there it is pressingsin the
tide of unrestricted immigrationS The
time has certainly come if not to stop
AT LEAST. TO CHECK,
to sift and to restrict those immi-
grants"
Mr.. Lodge spoke for an hour and was
followed by Mr.. Pugh (Dem.) of Ala
bama, in support of the silver amend
ment to the tariff bill. Mr.. Pugh ar
gued that the economic troubles of the
United States were caused by an in
sufficient and congested currency. The
senator declared that the restriction
on our money to the single gold stand
ard was the root of our financial trou
bles. He added that if the Democratic
party under the leadership of one man,
forsakes the cardinal principles of
maintaining both metals. ii will be the
most remarkable revolution in political
history. The senator referred sarcastic
ally to those Democrats who had been
converted TO gold in the cleveland
infirmary." No two presidents were
more widely apart on finance than An
drew Jackson and Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Pugh said he could name members
of Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet who were
clamorous for free silver up to 1893,
and who were now parading for gold.
AT $3.50 Mr.. Pugh yielded the floor
to continue his financial speech tomor-
row.
Mr.. Sherman at once called up
THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
and Mr.. Morgan of Alabama, address
ed the senate on this question The
senator said the American people had
expressed their views on Cuban bellig-
erency and independence by a great
deluge of petitions and memorials
Mr.. Morgan read from many petitions
showing the wide public feeling in be-
haH OF Cuba. Those came from city
counclls, q. A. r. posts, A. P. A bod
les, ministerial unions, normal schools.
boards of trade, citizens meetings.
labor and trade assemblies. typograph-
zeal unions, declarations of labor, etc.
Inc individual petitions were also very
numerous
Mr.. Sherman rose to state he was
authorized to say that the house. of rep
resentatlves has received Cuban petit
lions f1lling a large boxss ss-s-
MI Hale, OF Maine, here precipitatad
a Controversy by saying that senators
were Iamiilar with the methods employed
IN, getting up petitions. He did not know
Whether 1T was the case in this mattsr
put ne presumed they were all on printed
heads, sent out from one source. Those
represented
NO SPONTANEOUS PUBLIC SENTI-
MENT
from the country at large but were en-
anatlons of agencies at New York and
washington. 1t wa sdoubtless part of a
deliberate plan to influence sentiment
MI. Morgan passed the petitions to Mr..
1ale and asked the latter to examine
them ana see If any fraud had been com
nritted. ~
Does my colleague (Hale) know of a
remonStrance against Cuba?'' asked Mr..
Frye.
Yes said Mr.. Hale, 81 have hundreds
of letters from leading business men,
am not talking about letters" xaid
Frye.
/ regard letters as much more import
ant, declared Hale, land they give the
views of conservative business men,
Mr.. Morgan referred contemptuously to
these business men" who were in the
habit of trying to defeat legislation by
private letters to senators. The senAtor
next referred to Minister Dupuy de
Lome's statement received from Secre-
tary Olney by the committee. This was
the signal for
FURTHER SHARP QUESTIONS
from Mr.. Hale. He said this statement
needed explanation even at this late
day, and he referred to the conflict be-
tween Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. Sherman as
to the minister's statement.
Mr.. Sherman interrupted to say that
Mr.. Hale was not correctly stating the
listers statement, and when Mr.. Hale
persisted, Mr.. Sherman added that he
would not be led to ''wrangle.,'
Mr.. Morgan went on to say that the
Spanish minister's statement had been
drawn out by SPANS desire to delay &C
ton in Congress. Spain feared the I'm
tied States would get in a tantrum The
Spanish minister, therefore, sent a mem
ter sent it to the senate committee. He
(Morgan) had sent to the secretary, re-
questing authority to make public the
minister's statement. Mr.. Olney an
swered that he had conferred with the
Spanish minister and the latter had no
objection to it's use.
Mr.. Morgan proceeded to read from
the Spanish minister's statement and
commented on it as he went along. The
statement said the insurgents had no
fixed place of organization. being driven
from place to place. The senator asked
what permanent place
OUR CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
held during the revolution. 1t was
driven about, and when the British
burned Washington, in 1914, the members
of our congress were refugees in Vir-
ginia, and yet this Spanish minister
raised the point that struggling people |
must have a permanent capital AS |
matter of fact the senator insisted the
insurgents had a capital, as was shown !
by reports from newspaper correspond |
ents.
Mr.. Hale interrupted to ask if Mr.. Nor
gan really credited the Reorganization of
the correspondent who claimed to have
located this nebulous insurgent capital. |
81 supposed responded Mr.. Morgan |
warmly, that / was to address the SEN |
a child in Kindergarten to submit to
the questioning of the senator from
Maine (HaleD
'It is not my fault" proceeded Mr.. i
Hale that the senator is put in the posi-
ton of a school child in a. kindergarten"
Here Mr.. Morgan appealed to the |
chair and declared that if Mr.. Hale con-
tinued his interruptions, he CMorgan) /
would call him to order.
Mr.. Chandler added to what Mr.. Nor
gan had said as to the insurgent CAPT
tai. that it had an actual existence and |
that the Spanish troops had not been
able to take it.
No said Mr.. Morgan, Gomez and