The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-11

munications for newspapers and maga- zines on both sides of the Atlantic touching great political questions and everybody was glad to read them.
 MT. Gray suggested the case of some person in the house of lords, saying that it was matter of history before the execution of Major Andre he was tortured by General Washington and had his eyes burned out, and he asked whether the American ambassador at London would not be perfectly justified in writing to the London papers that that history was unauthentic. MT, Hale accepted the suggestion with thanks and said thatneXt morning every reader of the London Times would have found on his table polite and courteous let ter from MT. Bayard stating the error of history.
 MT. Teller thought that that was an analogous case.
 In further illustration of his point touching the use of the press by public men, MT. Lodge stated by what motives he was influenced by bringing to the attention of the senate and referred to the dismissal of Genet, the French minister, by President Washington, who, he said, was not jingo, and would not be taken to task for his in- temperate action. He also referred to the dismissal of the British minister, MT. Sackville- West, during MT. Cleve- lands first administration, for writing a private letter which had got into the newspapers.
 At the close of MT Lodges remarks the discussion was closed, but a new branch of the Cuban question was brought up by the vice president lay ing before the senate the resolution offered by MT. Hoar, rep, of Massa- chusetts, postponing the conference re- port on the Cuban resolutions until April and directing the committee on foreign relations to the senate com mittee the facts which, in it's opinion, would justify the passage of the reso- lutions As MT. Mitchell, rep, of Ore gon, manifested some anxiety to pro- ceed with the Dupont election case Mr. Hoar expressed his willingness, in fact his desire, as he did not feel very we'll, to let the resolution go over, but objection was made by MT. Sher- man, who wished to dispose of the question.
 This nettled MT. Hoar, who standing close to MT. Sherman, the aisle only separating the two senators, addressed some rather sarcastic remarks to the Ohio senator That senator, MT. Hoar said, was a man of marvellous pene- tration and of great scientific attain ments; but he doubted whether he had yet so mastered the new discovery of the X-rays as to penetrate into his (Mr. Hoar's) brain and to find out his motive in offering the resolution.
 q think I can," MT. Sherman said, with an air of confidence in his own opinion which caused some laughter.
 MT. Hoar declared that he had no such motive. He did not want to call the attention of the senate to the mer- it's or demerits of the Cuban question, but to the practice which was growing up of the senate dealing with the for efgn relations of the government. The ordinary methods of action prescribed by the constitution were carefully avoided and shrunk from. The whole subject of the concurrent resolutions was nothing but matter for a moot debate. The senate and house were elchGu lO dSClciL ' cOiilSlllillSo NlilSil Wcoio have no effect after it was declared. The American people was not bound, congress was not bound, the president was not bound, no individual American was bound, by the concurrent resolu- tions now before the senate. The small est private claim for $100 when bill was reported by a committee, for 1t had the facts and evidence presented to the senate in an accompanying report
 T have listened to the senator from Massachusetts" MT. Sherman broke in, unable to restrain his impatience. Let me make my point" Mir Hoar remon- strated with some show of petulence When I begin to state my point the senator from Ohio demands that he shall be allowed to make the state ment."
 The two senators glowered angrily at each other as they stood near one anoth- CT, and 8 ripple of interest went through the chamber and galleries. Mr Sherman took his seat with an air of injury and resignation, remarking as he did so that he would let the senator from Massachusetts go on.
 MT. Hoar said he had not initiated the debate. He had asked that his res olution should go over until tomorrow and the senator had objected. He re- peated the remark about all small pri- vate bills being accompanied by reports, but here. in this grave foreign compli- cation, there was no report made, al though the former chairman of the committee, MT. Morgan, had said that he brought to the senate a sword which Spain was at liberty to take up if she chose, and with the full understanding that the resolution would not unlikely lead to war.
 MT. Morgan denied having made the statement which MT. Hoar attributed to him. He stated that he had said to the committee on foreign relations when the subject first came up and when the committee had before it thou sands of petitions for the recognition of Cuban belligerency or independence that the committee would have to do one of two things-either report back the resolution adversely and ask to be discharged or turn its face in the other i direction, but that whatever it did he was confident that the folly and over strained pride of Spain would force her into improper and wrong proceed 1ngs toward the people of the United States and would lead her to engage in war, and that in such case he drew his sword and laid it on the table and Spain might take it up if she chose. MT. HOar said with 9 Sb1-1Icr of ;,,