The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04

the continents OF this hemisphere or the con-
tiguous islands. I do not see why the United
States should not interpose to prevent spain
from retaining territory by subjugation'
loud applause)
As Mr.. Hit concluded, Mr.. Hyde asked
him whether. If the President refused to take
any action on the resolutions, their effect
would be nil.
Mr.. Hit replied that he declined to en-
terrain such an hypothesis, response that
was greeted with tumultuous applause.
BOUTELLE POSING AS DIRECTOR.
Mr.. Boutelle. who has steadily opposed the
passage OF any Cuban resolutions, then took
the floor. He said he had never regretted his
course. and he thought his attitude had been
INDICATED by subsequent events. This pro-
ceeding was a remarkable illustration of
"how not to do it," The resolutions had no
legal effect. They amounted to nothing.
That had been proclaimed in the Senate, and
was well understood here The chairman of
the foreign relations committee in the Sem
ate admitted that the resolutions when
were as dead as Julius Caesar They could
never have passed the Senate and therefore
the House conferees thought it was wise to
Mr.. Hit emphatically denied that it had
ever been admitted in the Senate that IT
would have been impossible to pass them
again in that body. 1t was admitted that a
vote could have been INSTRUCTED, but he de-.
clared, emphatically, that there was in the
senate an overwnelming majority Tor each
and all Of the resolutions.
Mr.. Boutelle, continuing, argued that pub
lie ardor on the question had measurably
cooled. and that there was no demonstrable
proof Of the existence of the fact of Cuban
belligerency. He tainted the committee with
having refused TO make the resolutions
he Sd n seaf be
ligerency. He did not pretend TO voice the
who's, public. sentiment of the country. but
ne DID represent the conservative element
that deprecated foreign broils that might
eventuate in a foreign war. He attributed
much OF the feeling In the country to the sem
stantly seeking prefexts for inf1aming the
public mind Proceeding. he deprecated the
tales or horrible atrocities committed by
Spain in Cuba which had been retailed in this
country with view to firing popular pas
sion. He called the burning of negro,
bound bound to an iron, post in a public square in
thing that occurred in a generation.
Mr.. Grosvenor asked him If that outrage
Certainly, replied Mr. - Bouteiie. 'but the
point am making Is that the whole Span
ish people should not be indicted because
of law any more that the American people
should be indicted for the act of a mob
Mr.. Boutelle created much amusement by
a sarcastic description of the Presidents
twist of the British tail In his Venezuelan
array. with plumes streaming and sword
clanking. marching down to the seashore and
shaking his fist at John Bull crying: Fee,
Il, TO, FUN, l smell the blood of an English
man.. -Four days afterwards continued
Mr.. Boutelle, just as we wefe preparing to
pack our grips and go home for our Christ
mas turkey. this great warrior, with the
broken plume and spurs tangled in his trou-
sers, dragged himself up the steps of the
Capitol and made his Macedonian appeal:
The treasury's bankrupt; for Gods sake,
gentlemen, don't go home till you have given
US money enough to tide over the holidays :
That" he said, disgustedly, sis what you call
vigorous foreign policy" In support of his
contention against the recognition of bellg-
erency, Mr.. Boutelle read from the mes
sages OF General Grant, and charged that il
was the boast of the revolutionists that they
had burned and destroyed crops, fields and
villages In order TO drive the people into in
surrection.
After he had concluded, Mr.. Smith, of
Michigan, secured minute in which to read
the declaration of the Massachusetts Repub-
Hcan convention on the Cuban question.
Mr. Skinner closed the debate for the day
with brief speech In favor of the adoption
of the conference report. Without action, at
$40. the House took a recess until 8 O'Clock.