The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
HALE As an oBJECToR.
Opposes the Concurrent Resolution for
Cuban RecoQnition.


Opposes the Concurrent Resolution for
Cuban Recognition.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 19.-Ths
Cuban debate in the Senate to-day was of
a character to maintain the intense public
interest in that question. Itwas to have
been opened by Mills of Texas, but that
Senator was too i'll to be present, and the
debate was opened by Stewart of Nevada.
He declared himself anxious for action,
said that the facts were too notorious to
need further statement, favored the adop-
tion of the conference report and said that
If a concurrent resolution did not produce
the desired result Congress ought to pass
a Joint resolution and place the response
biiity on the President of the United
States.
Gray of Delaware, q member of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations rose in or
der, as he explained it, to give the reasons
which compelled him to withhold his as
sent from the conference report; but he
was subjected to so many Interruptions
that his brief statement occupied over an
hour. It closed with an expression of the
hope that "Spain, without rupture of
friendly relations, shall sit down with us
at the council board of nations and con-
slider whether there may not be some
other issue of this sorry controversy than
the determination of a whole people fight
ing for their liberties"
GRAY was interrupted all through his
speech by Hale of Maine, in the course of
which Hale fatty contradicted state
ment repeatedly made by Sherman of
Ohio, chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, as TO Spain having violated all
the promises and reforms stipulated in the
capitulation of 1878, when the insurgents
of that day laid down their arms. Sher-
man had said, among other things, that
although representation in the Spanish
Cortes was then promised the Cubans had
only one delegate there, but Hale affirmed
that he had list of forty-fve members in
the House of Deputies and fourteen or fif-
teen members in the Senate from the two
islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. Hale de-
cIared with warmth that he was laboring
under a sense of indignation at the sup
preston of the facts of the case by the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Gray made mock apology to Hale for
interrupting his speech so much, but spoke
of him by an intentional slip of the tongue
IS "the Senator from Spain"
The Junior Senator from Texas, Chiffon,
advocated the passage of joint resolution
rather than of concurrent one and de-
clared his belief that Intervention by the
United States meant the ultimate annexa-
ton of Cuba, to which he was opposed.
The last ST eech of the day was made by
Caffery of Louisiana and was against the
entire proposition, as having no better
basis than stories in the Arabian
Nights" The United States, he declared,
was bound by international law not to
meddIe in the affairs of Cuba. If the
United States did not cling to that law it
would be outlawed from the circle of civil
lied nations.
Caffery had not finished his speech when
the Senate at P. NJ. adjourned until to-
morrow.
The Senate bill to enable the people of
New Mexico to form constitution and
State government and to be admitted into
the Union as State was reported from the
Committee on Territories and placed on
the calendar.
The Senate bill authorizing the expendi-
ture of the unexpended appropriation for
the construction of canals and locks at the
cascades of the Coluln bia River in the con-
fNDSSN'
The conference report on the Cuban bel
Jigerency resolutions was then taken up.
Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada addressed the
Senate in support of the resolutions. 1t
was reproach to the American people
that they had stood by so long, he said,
and witnessed the vain attempt of Spain
to govern Cuba. He compared the case OF
SPAN in Cuba with that of England in
Egypt, and said that the English policy
in Egypt was being extended to this hem
isphere. If Spain held Cuba she would
hold her as she had done for the last hum
dred years with an army and would IN
crease the Cuban debt and enslave the
people. The heart of every patriot in the
United States went out to Cuba
Should the Senate, Stewart asked. an
swer the demand of the American people
and extend that sympathy in the most