The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-12-11
NATIONS LAWMAKERS
Both Houses of Congress Getting
Down to Business.
MR. OULLOM SPEAKS FOR CUBA


and Urges Speedy Action on the Part Of
Our Government.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE senate got
into the regular channel of business yes.
terday. taking up the immigration bill
and partly perfecting it, and also hearing
the first of the speeches on Cuba, those Of
Mr.. Cullom and MIR. Call. The DISPOSE.
Gon to put through the immigration bill
was shown by the defeat Of motion by
Mr., Gibson. Of Maryland, to postpone the
measure until after the holidays Only
thirteen votes, all Democrats, were given
In favor of postponement The PROPOSE
ton served to involve Messrs Chandler,
Lodge and Gibson in several spirited per.
sonal colleagues. The merits of the immi-
grafton question were discussed in gen.
eral way ON several proposed amendments,
Mr. Vest and Mr.. Palmer suggesting that
limits should placed on the restrictions,
while Mr. Lodge aad Mr. Chandler urged
that the restrictions be sweeping in char
acter.
The bill was not passed up to the time
Of adjournment but the senate agreed to
what is generally known as the Lodge bill
as a substitute to the house measure. The
substitute requires that all immigrants
over the age Of "A years shall BIO able to
read and write their native language, and
shall be required to read and write In the
presence of United States official at least
five lines of the United States constitu-
tion.
The Cuban speeches Of Mr.. Cullcm and
and Mr.. Call were listened to by crowded
galleries, indicating the public interest
felt in this subject. Senator Cullom's
speech was vigorous plea for immediate
action. In the course Of his address he
said:
1.-THE logic of the insurrection means
liberty for Cuba What does the world
palaces in Spain, enshrouded as they are
in the cerements of war, which but recall
an awful history instead of glorious
past2 Shall 1t be that the nation where
the inqulsition found congsnial home
and where the so called Holy Brotherhood
was established for the crushing out OF
life and liberty, and where manhood and
womanhood were made the playthings Of
brutal might-shall it be that the incom-
ing century will chronicle longer con-
tinuance Of such power almost within
sight Of the unfurled Stars and StripesP
An Almighty God relgns still in the uni
verse. All the petty subterfuges Of princes
and mobiles, of kings and tyrants, will fail
them In the day of their adversely.
ut Is about time that this free country
ceased to be police establishment for the
aiding of the most Outrageous warfare
against struggling people. The Spanish
government three weeks ago bought and
shipped for General Weyler numbers of
mules and horses raised in this country
and purchased in Missouri and other
western states. Under present stringent
rules every federal official is a spy to in
form against any attempt to convey arms
OF clothing or supplies to General Gomez
or General Maceo or the Cuban army.
Men are now under arrest In the United
States for attempting to succor their
friends and relatives in Cuba.
HAS Spain any sympathy with or friend
ship for this country? Americans have
been imprisoned and punished in Cuba
for even expressing sorrow for the poor
young medical students who were cruelty
shot and murdered In Havana a few years
ago. There is not family of any stand.
ing in Cuba which has not lost one or
more of its members by arbitrary arrest
and murder.
"If other means fail we may consider
the propriety of fair purchase of Cuba.
That method has had its share of consider.
alton under previous administrations. 1t
is not that we want the territory, but we
mean that the trouble shall meet just
ut ha nd
come, and come quickly. Let the blood
shed cease, and let freedom and humanity
be glorltled."
Pending the preparation Of the next ap.
preparation bill the house again yesterday
devoted Its time to the consideration of
bills on the calendar, but only two were
passed during the four hour session. One
Of them was a bill which the prominent
playwrights and theatrical managers of
the country have been laborlng for some
years to induce congress to pass. The pur-
pose of the measure is two fold: First, to
secure to musical compositions the same
measure of protection under tho copy
right law as is now afforded productions
of q strictly dramatic character; second,
to add by proper court injunction pro-
cesses, this protection to the authors OF
dramatic and operate works. The bill
imposes a fine of 800 for the first and $50
for each subsequent unauthorized produc-
ton.
A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in
the Capitol building was also passed A
bill advocated by the delegates from the
territories to modify the law forbidding
the alien ownership Of lands in the tori
tories, SO as to give them the right to ac-
quire under mortgage and to hold for ten
years real property, was defeated. An i'm
portant bill to transfer the rights of the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad under its
charter to- the mortgages when they re-
organize the road was postponed until
dan