The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-18

feet right to defend his government and
people everywhere.
Mr.. Morgan said that he had not pro-
posed to notice that position, of Mr. Sher-
man: but now that 1t had been brought
forward, he would say that he did not
agree with Mr. Sherman on that subject.
He would now place against Mr.. De
Lome's statement that of Mr.. Quesada,
the representative of the Cuban republic
at Washington. who sent the case in be-
half of Cuba to the department of state
which statement the Secretary of State
sent to the committee on foreign relations.
strip Mr.. De LONE" said Mr.. Morgan,
"of his royal commission and put him on
his Spanish blood, on his Spanish charac-
ter and his history (of which / know moth
ing). Then bring Mr.. Quesada here on his
history and Spanish blood and character
(of which l know nothing and confront
them as they are confronted through the
newspapers, and let them both speak"
Mr.. Morgan sent to the clerks desk and
had read Mr.. Quesada's letter to a Wash
ington paper describing several horrible
atrocities alleged to be perpetrated in
Cuba during the last rebellion, in which
Gen Weyler is reported as having had
ladies stripped naked. whipped and given
up to the Iust of his troops.
The reading was interrupted by Mr.
Chandler on the ground that the state
ments were too indecent for public re-
hearsal, but Mr.. Hale insisted that the
reading should be proceeded with, in or
der to show how utterly unworthy of
credit its statements were.
Mr.. Morgan read other communications
charging barbarities by the Spanish troops
during the last rebellion; also an inter-
view with Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. who
was at that time United States minister
to Spain, recently published in the New
York Sun, and which, Mr.. Morgan said,
had been politely sent to him by Gen.
Sickles.
Mr.. Morgan said that he might have
rested the whole case on that interview
with Gen. Sickles. He did not choose to
cucumber the Record with more of these
sta tementS further than to show that a
state Of open, horrid war exists in Cuba
"a war involving the property, rights,
liberties and lives of American citizens
who happen to be there. The line of
action for congress to take was to de-
clare that open war exists in Cuba and
that the laws of war should apply to il.
He had expected to have an opportunity
to answer some of the filings thrown al
the committee on foreign relations by
the senator's from Massachusetts and
Maine, Messrs. Hoar and Hale. But the
occasion was one of too great solemnity
and too great Importance to permit him
to thrust himself into the debate, either
personally or as a member of the COM
mittee on foreign relations. The commit
tee had most faithfully, attentively, care
fully examined into the great mass of
petitions referred to it, and had under
taken to conform its opinion to that eX-
pressed by the great body of American
citizens.
In winding UP his speech. Mr.. Morgan
was very severe on american emigres
in the great cities of Europe" who own
ed or controlled newspapers in London,
Paris and New York, and who flared up
when the Senate uttered a word of SYM
pathy with Cuba; and he referred con-
temptuously to "the recent fiasco" of pub
fishing an alleged dispatch from the Span
ish premier. He would commend to the
Spanish premier the proverb about the
fieas which torment those who would
consort with the canine race.
The Senate, at 5:40 o'clock, adjourned
until Tomorrow.