St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-21
BY SOME BELIEVED tn xNn1caTn
WEAKNESS OF THE CUBAN
CAUSE.
BUT Mr.. SHERMAN SAYS NOT.
MANY FAVORABLE TO CUBA woman
FOR THE MOTION TO AD-
JOURN.
chance for Those Who Have On.
posed the Pending Motion to
Show Good Faith.

WASHINGTON, March 20. - Senator
Morgan presented a new phase of the
Cupan question to the senate TODAY
by oHering resolution declaring that
state or war exists in Cuba and rec
ognizing the insurgents as belligerents.
The pending resolutions are concurrent.
while these. being joint, would. il
adopted, require the presidents sig
nature.
The resolutions before the senate re-
celved an unexpected reverse today.
Mr.. Sherman sought to interrupt the
usual course Of adjourning over Satur-
day unless unanimous consent was
given to take the final vote on the
Cuban question at a stated time next
week. The luminous consent was not
given, however, and the senate voted.
A to %. to adjourn over tomorrow.
The defeat was considered as an evil
dence of growing opposition to the
Cuban resolutions. The detailed vote
was as follows:
Yeas-Republicans, Burrows Cannon. Car
ter. Davis, Dubois, Hale, Mcmillan Morrill,
Platt. Sewell. Teller, Thurston, Wetmore and
Wolcott; So Democrats, Bacon; Bate Brice. CAT
German. Gray Harris, Hill Irby, Jones. Ark,
Martin, Mitchell, Wis. Pascoe. Pugh Roach,
Smith, Villas, Walthall and White; Populists.
Allen, Butler. PETER. Stewart-42.
,Nays1Republlcans, Barker. Brown, Gram
dler, Clark, Cullom, Frye, Galliager Lodge
Mitchell. Or, Nelson. Perkins. Proctor. Sher-
man, Shoup and Wilson: Democrats. Blanch-
ard. Call Mills, Morgan, Tillman and Vesti
Popuiist, Kyle-22.
Some Of the opponents of the Cuban
question were inclined to accept the
vote in favor of adjournment in the
face of the opposition of Senator Sher-
man as an indication of the weakness
Of the Cuban question in the senate.
Senator Sherman does not take this
view of the matter. He says that many
of the strongest supporters of the Gu
ban cause voted for adjournment for
various reasons of their own. Conse-
quently he does not regard the vote in
any sense a test.
Mr.. Caffery Dem., Lay, after the
vote, proceeded with his seech oppos-
ing the resolution. Mr. Caffery urged
that the resolutions were a gratituous
insult to Spain, and amounted almost
to war. At 2 o'clock Mr.. Caffery con-
cluded and Mr.. Mills was recognized,
but declined to take the floor at this
time in order that those opposed might
proceed
Mr.. Mccall then addressed the sem
ate. At one point, when Mr. Call was
urging intervention, Mr. Platt asked:
Suppose we suggest intervention
and Spain does not accept it, then does
the senator propose that we shall go
to war;"
First, let us make our declaration
and see what effect that has" an
swered Mr., Call. Next. let us repeal
our neutrality laws, allow our brave
tn fSiS
in the cause of freedom, an opportunity
to do so. That will settle the question
without a war and will settle 1T with
in ninety days"
Mr.. Call read a letter recently re-
ce1Ved from a personal friend in Ha-
vana, telling of the slaughter of twen-
ty and the imprisonment of seventeen
Cubans. Mr.. Palmer took the floor on
the Cuban resolutions. but postponed
his remarks until Monday.
Just before the senate adjourned
Senator Morgan, who reported the Gu
ban resolutions originally, introduced
the following joint resolution:
Resolved. BY the senate and house of rep
hereby declared that a state of public war
exists in the island of Cupa between the gov
ernment OF Spain and the people of that
Island who are supporting a separate gov
ernment under the name of the Republic Of
Cuba, and the state of belligerency between
said governments is hereby recognized
The significance of the resolution is
that it is joint resolution instead OF
concurrent, and that it is confined to a
bare recognition OF belligerency upon
the basis of the declaration that a state
of war exists in Cuba. Senator Nor
gan said, in reply to a question. that It
was his purpose to afford those who
had objected to the concurrent form OF
the original senate and the house res
olutions and had expressed a willing
ness to support a joint resolution. a
chance to make good their promises.
The resolution was, at Mr. Morgan's
request. allowed to lie on the table.