Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-09
IN N SENATE.
Some Cuban Affairs Discussed in UppeI
Branch Of National Congress.

Washington. June SIN the Senate.
Il resolution concurring in the with
drawal from the trust funds of the
Chickasaw Indians of 500. 900 to he sub
ject to warrants drawn.4pon it by the
treasurer of the tribe. Vas agreed to.
The Senate bill authorizing the Pres
ident to appoint Lieut.. Robert Platt,
L. S. NJ. to the rank OF commander.
was passed. and the Senate bill extend
ing relief to indian citizens in regard to
ia on their lands.
AT p. NJ, the immigration bill was
taken up. Morgan. Dem. of Alabama.
offered an amendment providing that
the bill shall not apply to persons com
ing from Cuba. He addressed the
Senate in support of it. saying these
Ctlbans am to this country to escape
from the prosecutions of Spain II I'VE
under free institutions. Morgan Wen
into the CUBAN question at great length,
He asserted that the Cubans had been
selected 10y the Spanish government for
%rtiinous, oppressive and unbearible tax
alton. Ee confessed he vas not averse
to a war with Spain if h continued
in her cours,. Of abominablc despotisin.
He did not deny that his sympathies
W, re with IA, he said, but as a
American citizen and as a senator he
had confined his action in the matter
entirely to constitutional duties of the
of the United States to its
own people. Morgan disclaimed having
heretofore said anything offensive to
the Queen regent of Spain.
lie eulogized her as a Of very
high character and almost ~unexampled
virture and said she was entitled by
virtue of regency OF womanhood to the
utmost respect and every senator so
treated her n so spoke of her.
He remarked IL the Queen of Great
Britain. Queen Regent of Spain, Queen
of Greece and the Empress OF Germany
were to meet in Cuba and witness some
things done there in the name OF Spain
innocent women II children
Who were shot to death by a brutal
Soldiery, those great and noble women
would rise in their majesty and strike
to death the power which enabled a
brute like Weyler to inflict such wrongs.
But. he said. We are Il stand by,
according to the Presidents theory.
idle and mute. and witness continued
repetition of these brutal acts In that
island. | wish noble women were there
TO see them. They would lay their
hands on the arm of a brutal soldier
who now Yields the sword of Spain
there and would tell him in the name of
God and humanity and Christianity to
fol bear his inhuman deeds"
Morgan's speech was interrupted by
the presentation of a partial confer
ence report on the District of Columbia
appropriation bill, which was agreed
to and a further conference ordered.
Mr.. Morgan then continued his
speech.
lie referred to Gen. Weyler as one
who plunged his bloodstained sword
into the bosoms of women ana chill
dren.' and whose policy was declared
to pc II of determination.
In the second interruption of Nor
cams speech. the final conference re-
port on the p%ostoffice appropriation bill
was presented and agreed to. Resum-
ing his remarks. Morgan spoke of the
newspaper statements attributing to
President Cleveland a purpose of com
bining the question of belligePencv with
Il of reciprocity. and expressed hone
that the President would not interfere
with Cuba as he nae interfered with
the Hawaiian Islands.
AT the close of Morgan's speech the
Senate proceeded to executive business.
and at $40 adjourned.