The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-20
And the Question Of Accordlng Her BslIlgar-
emit Rights Discussed In The Senate.
SEN. Chiffon DREW. A DARK PICTURE.
The (:entIeman Said the Resolutions
wcrc offered to cater 30 the W"r-
like Spirit Now Dominant l" Inc
United Statcs-Mr. Gray Calls Mr.
Hale tho senator From Spain.

3 of n character to maintain the fntenSa
4 public interest in that question. II
was TO have been opened by Mr. Mills.
but that Senator was too III TO be pres
!. emf. and the debate was opened by MIR.
Stewart. IL, declared himself anxious
for action. said that the facts were
too notorious 10 need further state
mtints; Favored the adopt!on OF the
conference report and said that II
concurrent resolution did not produce
the desird result Congress ought TO
pass q Joint resolution ana place the
responsibility on the President of the
United States
Mr.. Gluy. u member Of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations. then took
the floor and occupied it about an hour.
Mr.. Gray closed with the hope that
Spain, without rupture of friendly re-
lations shall sit down with us at the
council board of nations and consider
whether there may not be some other
issue OF this sorry controversy than the
determination of q whole people fighting
for their liberty Mr. Gray was in
tenrupted adj through his speech by
Elr. Hale. in the course of which MI.
Hale fatty contradictcd a statement re-
peatedly made by Mr. Sherman. chair
man of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, as to Spain having violated all
the promises and reforms stipulated in
the capitulation of 1878. when the in
surgents of that day laid down their
arms. Mr.. Sherman had said, among
other things, that although representa-
ton in the Spanish Cortes was then
promised, the Cubans had only one
delegate there, but Mr.. Hale affirmed
that he had Il list of forty-five mem
bers in the House of Deputies and iif-
(. tetnp members in the Senat from the
two Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico.
Afr. Hale declared with warmth that he
was laboring under sense of indigna-
tion at the suppression OF facts by
the Foreign Relations Committee.
Mr.. Gray made Il mock APOLOGY to
Mr.. Hale for interrupting his speech
30 much, and spoke of him, by an inten-
tional slip of the tongue, us 1.-THE Sena-
tor from SPAIN The junior Senator
from Texas CHR. Chiitom advocated the
passage of n joint resolution rather than
of concurrent one, and declared his
belief that intervention by the United
\ States meant the ultimate annexation
+ of Cuba-to which he was opposed.
The last speech OF the day was made
by Mr.. Caffery Dcm), of Louisiana.
and was against the entire proposition,as
having no better Rasis than stories I'm
the Ara bian Nights. The United States
+ he declared, was bound by International
law not 10 intermediate in the affairs Of
* Cuba. If the United States did not
4 from the circle of civilized nations.
Mr.. Gray. one OF the members OF The
Committee on Foreign Relations, said
that he wished to state briefly, the rea-
sons which compelled him 10 withhold
his assent from the conference report
IT wns easy to say, MIR. Gray remarked
that the resolutions Of the two houses
were substantially the same, but in n
matter of this kind, words were things
III would he ND In N 81 tppnt IN licr,nt,.,
the feeling OF sympathy that occupied
the breast of every true American in
regard 10 that struggle. And yet the
United States, as in duty bound had
been strictly observing its duties TO-
wards the friendly government of Spain
IT had strictly enforced the neutrality
law 1t had suppressed all aid in the
shape OF military expeditions and had
gone to the Very verge OF its interna-
tional obligations in protecting Spain
from the effect OF that widespread sym
pathy. That feeling had found prorcr
respectful and courteous EXPRESSION In
the resolutions passed by the House
However much Spain might be irritatcd
by that action she had no right In any
international point OF view to find ra,Il,
with. or to call TO account the Govern.
ment of the United States for That OK
preston OF its people.
MT. Gray argued that there
was no reason why the Sanate
should accept the House resolu.
ttons after its own rcsolutsions he.
ing contemptuously swept aside. liz
Thought that there was grave objection
TO the language of the House resolution
1T did not put the attitud, of Cnnrrns.
where 1t ought to be put rs correctslv n
the Senate resolution did
He was SO frequently interrriDtcd u,
MT: Hale that ne. saTcastically apollo
giving for breaking so often into All,
Hale's spesach, and referred 10 him n,
by slip of the tongue. as the Senate,
from Spain. Gaughter)
Mr.. Chiffon spoke against the Cuba
resolution IN their prcsen. form ~
was In favor of joint resolution rec
ognizing the beligercncy of the Cuba ms
put not as concurrent resolution. an,
ne did moi think that Congress alon,
rad the right to declare war or to Civ,
beliigerency rights without the concur
renee OF the President. except wheI
congress accorded thfse rights over I'll,
Presidents veto by a two-thirds vol
he agreed that the tone of publiy opin
ION, while mild in the beginning. wa.
growing more ana more aggressive wifi
each turn OF the wheel The oripIpa
resolutions of the Foreign Relation,
committee were mild enough and coul[
give no offeAse 10 Spain. but ano.hn,
Turn or the wheel was taken and Inc
Neolutions of Senator Cameron. Offer.
Ing the lntermediatiSn of the IJn;, I'D
states FOR. the recognition of Cuba In.
a,ospenoehce, we're Incorporated in the
s. s sl 1 committee resolutions Tn,
& senator from Pennsylvania had Az
G 3Iinctiy stated in his speech that S,,o;n',
3 aeciinatlon of our intervention mn.
result IN war between the ITnite1 CO..