The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09
It Would Be Well for Unc.e Sam
to Check the Course of
Island Cruelties.
as TO THE QUEEN REGENT
The Alabama Senator Says She Should
Witness the Barbarities and
Stop Them.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June S.-The
Senate passed the general deficiency bill
in less than three-quarters of an hour.
Ordinarily bill OF 130 printed pages
would have taxed the powers OF the read
ing clerk for at least two hours. but the
reading of this bill was com pleted in half
an hour. An attempt was made by Harris
of Tennessee to have the claims under the
Bowman act, aggregating about half a
million dollars, placed in the bill, but they
were ruled out on points of order and the
bill was promptly passed. A final con-
ference report was made on the postofice
appropriation bill and was agreed to.
Partial conference reports on the Indian
bill and the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill were agreed to and further
conference ordered.
The immigration bill was taken up and
Morgan of Alabama made another long
speech upon the question OF the war in
Cuba, in the course of which he disclaimed
heretofore having said anything offensive
to the Queen Regent OF Spain. He eulo-
gized her as a woman of very high char
acter and of almost unexampled virtue,
and entitled by virtue of the regency of
woman hood to the utmost respect, and
every Senator so treated her and so spoke
of her. He spoke of General Weyler,
however, as brutal soldier who plunged
his blood-stained sword in the bosoms of
women and children.
Morgan went into the Cuban question at
great length, giving statements of occur
rences in the present and in the preceding
ten years war, and asserting that the
Cubans had been selected by the Spanish
Government for ruinous, oppressive and
unbearable taxation. He confessed that
he was not adverse to war with Spain if
she continued in her course of abominable
despotism. 1t was a misfortune. that the
people of the United States should be
drawn into it By reason of their ancestry
and traditions. He did not deny his
sympathles with Cuba, but as an Ameri-
can citizen and an American Senator he
had confined his action in the matter en-
tirely to the constitutional duties of the
Government of the United States to its
own people.
Alluding to a newspaper statement that
he had on the floor of the Senate made
hard and unpleasant remarks as to the
Queen Regent of Spain, Morgan said that
he had on that occasion referred to the
Queen Regent merely in connection with
her speeches from the throne, where she
claimed that the United States was in con-
troversy with Congress and in controversy
with the people as to their sentiments
about Cuba. If the Queen of Great Brit
ian, the Queen Regent of Spain, the Queen
of Greece and the Empress of Germany
were to meet in the island of Cuba and
were 70 wi tuesa Soma Of the thinca doue
there in the name OF Spain, upon innocent
women and children, who were shot to
death by a brutal soldiery, those great and
noble women would rise in their majesty
and would strike to death the power which
enabled brute like Weyler infict such
wrongs.
"Would to God" Morgan exclaimed,
that the Queen of Spain were there to see
these things. The delicacy of her nature
would not permit the infiction of such
brutalities upon women and children.
But are we to stand by, according to the
Presidents theory, idle and mute, and
witness the continued repetition of these
brutal acts on that island2 l wish those
noble women were there TO see them. They
would lay their hands on the arm of the
brutal soldier who now wields the brutal
sword of Spain there, and would tell him
in the name of God and humanity and
Christianity to forbeat his inhuman
deeds"
On motion of Perkins (R.) of California
the Senate bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for a
public building at Oakland, CAL, was
taken from the calendar and passed, and
the Senate adjourned.