The record-union., 1896-06-09
Passed in Less Than a Quarter of an
Hour After Being Read.
rIorgan flakes Another Long
Speech Upon the Question of the
War i'm Cuba, in Which He Eulo-
gizes the Queen Regent of Spain,
But DenounCes General Weyler as
Brutal Soldier.

WASHINGTON, June S.-The Sem
ate passed the new general deficiency
bill in less than three-quarterS of an
hour. Ordinarily a bill of 130 printed
pages would have taxed the powers of
the reading clerk for at least two hours.
but the reading of this bill was COM
pleted in half an hour.
An attempt was made by Harris of
Tennessee to have the claims under the
Bowman Act, aggregating about $780,
600, placed in the bill, but they were
ruled out on points of order, and the
bill was promptly passed.
A final conference report was made on
the POstoffice appropriation bill, and
was agreed to.
Partial conference reports on the In
dian appropriation bill and on the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
We're made and agreed to, and further
conference ordered.
The immigration bill was taken up,
and Morgan of Alabama made another
long speech upon the question of the
war in Cuba, in the course of which he
disclaimed heretofore having said any
thing offensive to the Queen Regent of
Spain. He eulogized her as a woman
&C very high character and of almost
unexampled virtue, and said she was
entitled by virtue of the regency of
omanhOod to the utmost respect and
every Senator so treated her, and SO
spoke of her. He spoke of General Wey-
Ter however, as brutal soldier, who
plunged his blood stained sword in the
bosoms of women and children.
Morgan went into the Cuban ques-
ton at great length, giving statements
of occurrences in the present and in
the preceding ten years war, and as
serting that the Cubans had been Sc
lected by the Spanish Government for
ruinous, oppressive and unbearable tax
alton. He confessed that he was not
averse to a war with Spain, if she con-
tinued in her course of abominable des-
potiSm. 1t was a misfortune that the
people of the United States should be
drawn into the matter by reason of
their sympathy with Cuba, but as an
American citizen and an American Sen
ator he had confined his action in the
matter entirely to the constitutional
duties of the Government of the United
States to it's own people.
Alluding to a newspaper statement
that he had on the floor of the Senate
made hard and unpleasant remarks as
to the Queen Regent of Spain, Morgan
said that he had on that occasion re-
ferred to the Queen Regent merely in
connection with her speech from the
throne, in which she claimed that the
President of the United States was in
controversy with Congress and in con-
troversy with the people as to their
sentiments about Cuba. If the Queen
Of Great Britain, the Queen Regent of
Spain, the Queen of Greece and the
Empress of Germany were to meet in
the Island of Cuba and were to witness
some of the things done there in the
name of Spain upon innocent women
and children, who We're shot to death
by a brutal soldiery those great and
noble women would rise in their maj
esty and would strike to death the
power which enabled brute like Wey-
Ter to infiict such wrongs.
Would to Cod" Morgan exclaimed,
that the Queen Regent of Spain were
there to see these things. The delicacy
of her nature would not permit the in
Fiction of such brutalities upon women
and children. But we are to stand by
according to the Presidents theory
idle and mute, and are to witness the
continued repetition of these brutal
acts in that island. / wish those noble
women were there to see them They