Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-03-26
The NATIONAL CAPITAL
synopsis Of Proceedingr in Con.
gross, and Matters Per.
ming Thereto.
4 REVIEW OF THE WEEK,
silver Is Aired In the Senate
The Watchdog Of the
Treasury.
THE SENATE,

Sherman at once called up the Gu
ban resolutions and Morgan of Ala.
bamQ addressed the senate on them
The senator said the American people
had expressed their views on belliger-
eDcy and independence BY q great de-
LUCE Of petitions and memorials. Nor
gan next referred to Minister De-
LomEsStatement received from Score.
tarysOlney by the committee. This
statement the senator said had been
drawn out by SPANS desire to delay
action In congress. Spain feared the
United States would get in q tantrum.
The Spanish minister therefore sent a
memorial to Olney and the latter sent
it to the senate committee. He Nor
gan) had sent to the secretary request
ing authority to make public the min
ister's statement. Olney answered he
had conferred with the Spanish min.
ster and the latter had no objection
to its use.
Morgan read from the statement
and commented on it as he went
along. The statement said the insur-
gents had no flxed place of organiza
ton, 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, members of our
congress were refugees in Virginia,
and yet the Spanish minister raised
the point that q struggling people
must have q permanent capital. As q
matter Of fact, the senator insisted,
the insurgents had q capital, as is
shown by reports from newspaper o r
respondents.
Morgan went on to read from the
statement, detailing the Cuban
methods. Of fighting, their failure to
come out for an open fight, and the
theatrical effect of their movements.
Morgan referred to q grim tragedy be-
meath the "theatrical effect" men,
toned by the minister. When the
senator read the minister's criticism
on insQrgent methods of burning cane
fields, he added it was q recognized
right of war to destroy and burn prop
erty in order to cripple the enemy.
During the reading of the statement,
Morgan had several sharp contr0-
versies with Hale over various phases
of the Cuban question, and in con-
Guiding his remarks said it was clear
Hale had no sympathy for the Cuban
negroes and doubtless he would not
care to see the negroes of the United
States free il they did not vote the re-
publican ticket.
Mr.. Morgan, who reported the Gu
ban resolutions originally and has
from the start taken q prominent part
in the senated debate favorable to
recognition of the Cubans, introduced
the following joint resolution:
Resolved, by the senate and house
Of representatives OF the United
States in congress assembled, that 1t
is hereby declared that q state OF
public war exists in the island OF
Cuba between the government OF
Spain and the people of that island
who are supporting q separate repub-
lie of Cuba, and that q state OF belllg'
erency between said governments is
hereby recognized" =
The significance of the resolution is
that il was q joint resolution instead
OF concurrent, and that it is confined
to the bare recognition of b~elllgerency
upon the basis Of q declaration that q
state Of war exists in Cnba.
The president will have to approve
or disapprove Of the first joint reso.
luton. which would then become law,
whereas the concurrent resolution
O under discussion is merely the
expressed sentiment of congress with
effect.