Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-17
MESSRS. MORGAN AND PUGH Made Two of the Three Speeches
 Yesterday. LODGE THE OTHER SPEAKER Senator Pugh Spoke in s of the BimetaIc
 SY~ SENATOR MORO DID NOT FINISH His Speech Was ,ted to the Conference Report on1' jn7 a- Cuban Resolutions. MT. Hale Gs an Unexpectedly
 Prompt Answer. l
LODGE THE OTHER SPEAKER

Washington, March 16-There were
 three speeches made in the senate today
 on as many different subjects. The first
 was by Senator Lodge and was in favor of such change in the immigration laws as will keep out illiterate and ignorant l immigrants The second was by Mr. Pugh and was in favor of the coinage of silver at the hints of the United States with the same rights as gold. The third speech was by MT Morgan in support of | the conference report on the Cuban reso- | lutions.
 | MT. Call offered resolution which was agreed to, directing the secretary of the treasury to inform the senate what orders have been issued from the treas | ury department to seize United States vessels loaded with arms and muni- tons Of war and with passengers on | poard supposed to be destined for Cuba and by what authority such seizures and arrests nave been made Mr. Lodge then | LOOK the floor and addressed the senate on the immigration bill At the close of MT Lodges speech the immigration bill was restored to the calendar and tha house tariff bill, with the finance com mittee's free coinage amendment. was taken up.
 MT. Pugh addressed the senate on the financial question. He said the people of the united States today-70, 000 900 in number-advanced in the highest ciyili- zatlon, increasing rapidly In all things that require the use of money were con 1essedly unable to understand the pres- ent condition so as to deal with 1t wisely ana satisfactorily. What, he asked. was the the matter and what was the remedy9 The cause was manifestly the insufficient supply Of money, the lack of Circulation ana the unequal distribution of the money now in existence The remedy was the restoration of silver to the same right or coinage that gold has by the re- enactment CE the coinage act of 1S97 which President Jackson approved. and the re-esta ablishment thereby of the only true bimetallic system
 '. At the conclusion of MT. Pugh's speech the conference report on the Cuban beI- n@serency @ resolutions was taken up and MT. Morgan, @ member of. the committee l on foreign relations, addressed the sen ate Tn favor of the adoption of the re- port. lie spoke of the numerous petf-
 tons that had been referred to the com mittee on foreign relations for recoeni- tion of Cuban belligerency or independ- ence They included, he said the action or the legislatures of Mississippi and New fork. The committee on foreign re- iatlons had not gone anywhere to the ex- tent to which the legislature of Mississip- pl nad gone. The action of the New York Legislature favored the recognition of Cuban independence
 MT. Hale made an inquiry about the
 paper from the Spanish minister to which MT. Sherman had unwarily referred tbe other day, and he asked why the com
 mittee on foreign relations had not re- ported the fact of that paper to the sen- ate. ~ N MT; Morgan explained that the paper had been communicated by the Spanish minister to Mir Olney and that Mir Oi- ney had concluded it to be his duty to send 1t to the committee on foreign rela- tions' 1t was the original paper that had peeh sent, and 1t was returned to the secretary of state.
 He (Mr. Morgan) had written to the secretary of state for copy of the paper ana had been informed that MT. OInev would consult the minister about it. The munster had given his consent and copy or the paper had been sent to him tMr. Morgan) and he would now read if With comments. to the senator,
 MT. Hale remarked that he would be |. giad, even at this late date, to have 1t brought before the senate.
 Tt is not late date" Mr. Morgan re- piled, somewhat angrily. "The Spanish soVernment-through its minister seems to have more summary relations with the state department than the com m1ttee on foreign relations had The committee regarded the paper as a peti ton on the part of Spain for further time that the committee would delay action until the spanish government would be ready to have some favorable report made to the senate In its behalf"
 MT. Morgan then began to read the pa- per from the Spanish minister by sen tences. and to comment upon it as he went along. When he came to the end of 1t he said that that was all of that miraculous and mysterious paper" It was a mere petition for delay and the senate had granted the delay The paper. he said. was dated the 11th of January. 1896.
 It containedsa dispatch from General Campos stating that the so-called Cuban government had no fixed residence and that he hardly knew where 1t wandered about. MT. Morgan's comment upon that was: That is all true, no doubt. How many places of habitation had the gov ernment of the United States and the continental congress during the reyolu- tionary war? They had no less than nine capitols, and the British government could not chase down to cover Where was the United States when this capitol was burned to the ground? A fugitive in Virginia. And SO the complaint of Cam pos is only that the insurgcnt govern ment has no fixed residence"
 Without finishing his speech Mir Nor gan yielded to motion to adjourn and at 530 o'clock the senate adjourned until tomorrow.
 The House.
 This was suspension day In the house, and the following bills were passed un- der suspension of the rules or by unani- nous consent:
 Providing free homesteads on the pub lie lands of Oklahoma for actual, bona fide settlers, with an amendment sus- pending until further legislation can be had by congress the operations of the land laws in Greene county. Texas, due to the decision today of the supreme court declaring that county a part of the public domain.
 Increasing the penalty for mutilating or defacIne coins. and making the pas sage of such coins felony
 The house at 415 adjourned until to-