The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-12
HoAR'S ANTI-cUBAN HARANGUE
THE COMMITTEE on FOREIGN RE-
LATIONS ARRAIGNED.

The senator Accuses Its Members OF
ReporfinE the Concurrent ResOIu-
,ton without Having Any Facts at
HAND 20 Back IL UP-afr. Allen Sug-
rests a Rigid Investigation Into
tbe Manner in which the War ~
carried On.
washington. March 11.-Senator Hoar's
solution to postpone the conference re-
rorr on the Cuban concurrent resolutions
I'M Monday, April 6. was taken up early
IN the morning hours to-day. and after
speech by Mr.. HOar in support Of it,
1ost its place in the morning hour and
vent 10 the calendar. from which there
probably will be no effort TO resurrect it.
prt the debate will go on all
the same in the Senate tomorrow and
,,r-l the subject is disposed of. as the
conference report is privileged ques-
lion. at least until o'clock every day,
when it comes in conflict with the resolu-
ton for seating Mr.. Dupont as a senator
from the state of Delaware question or
still higher privilege.
Mr. HOar's speech was largely an ar
raisnment of the committee on foreign re-
lations for reporting the concurrent reso-
buttons without having any facts to JUS
sherman, whom he placed on the same
pedestal with Lincoln. Grant. Fish, Sew
ard and his own illustrious brother, Gen.
sherman. to recede from the position
which he had taken; and the only reason
for which was, he intimated. because a
presidential election was at hand. Mr.
Hoar said some very severe things about
the action of the committee on foreign
relations, and said that when it wrote
the word concurrent at the head of
the resolution il meant 1T is to be dis
tincty understood that this is a Pick
Mir. Turpie. dem, of Indiana, concluded
his three days speech against the claim
Of Mr.. Dupont TO a seat in the Senate
Mr.. Pritchard, rep, of North Carolina,
took the floor on the Delaware election
question; and then the Senate proceeded to
executive business and at 4 O'Clock ad-
journed until tomorrow.
During the morning business a Joint res
olution was introduced by Mr.. Allen, pop.
OF Nebraska, and was referred to the
committee on foreign relations, authoriz-
ing and requesting the President of the
United States to cause a thorough and rig
id Investigation into the manner in which
the war between Spain and the belliger-
ents in Cuba is being conducted; whether.
in accordance with the established rules
of civilized warfare, and whether unusual
and exceptional cruelties, barbarities and
atrocities are and have been perpetrated
by either party toward the other, and
particularly toward nOn-combatants. The
joint resolution appropriates $4,000 for the
expenses of the inquiry.
Mr.. Pritchard, rep, of North Carolina,
was appointed on the committee on pen
sions in place of Mr.. Hawley. rep, of
Connecticut, relieved at his own request.
The debate on the Hoar resolutions fol-
lowed, as outlined above.
In opening the debate Mr.. Hoar said
he did not suppose that, at his time of
NE, IS was necessary for him to pro-
claim his sympathy wsth any people
struggling against oppression.
The question of belligerency. he said,
was a question of fact and it was rea-
sonable that the usual precautions should
be taken. The Senate should have be-
fore it the finding of facts by the proper
committee charged with the investiga-
ton. TINS subject was discussed On the
committee Tor several days, and was then
brought into the Senate without any re-
port but accompanied by speech from
Senator Morgan, who laid his sword on
the table and asked Spain to take it up,
and declared his belief in the power Of
congress, without the President, to grant
bellgerent rights. The other speech,
that of Mr.. Sherman, contained Quota
tons from work that was repudiated
Upon these statements, and without any
to act.
Mr.. Morgan interrupted Mr. Hoar to say
that he was entitled to his own opinion
as 10 the authority to grant belligerent
rights and would express them whenever
he saw fit. As a matter of fact, Mr. Morgan
said, the committee on judiciary, of which
Mr.. Hoar was chairman had before it the
question of determining the nature of a
concurrent resolution and involving the
status of the Cuban resolutions them
selves. There had been unusual delay
there, and the committee on foreign re-
lations waited patiently, but in vain, for
the light from that committee.
Mr.. Hoar accused the committee of bas-
ing its resolution upon statement con-
tanned in a letter from the Cuban junta
Mr.. Sherman took exceptions to this state
ment declaring that the latter came from
the state department itself.
Mr.. Hoar was complaining of the lack of
Information before the Senate on the Gu
ban question, when Mr.. Sherman called his
attention to a printed document of 200
pages containing a message from the
PRESIDENT and all the correspondence con-
Quoted by the state department
This document has been before the Sen
ate for more than two weeks and was open
to the Senate all the time" said Mr.. Sher-
man, somewhat petulantly.
Il don't believe anybody ever read it,"
retOrted Mr.. Hoar. whether the mem
bers of the committee did, do not know"
speech literally" said Mr.. Morgan, "and
that speech was in the nature Of a re-
port from the committee"
Then" said Mr.. HodT, with apparent
glee you spoke for the committee when
they laid your sword on the table, and
asked Spain to take 1t up. Is that not
So and did you not speak for the com
nittee when you said there had been 5000
prisoners executed in Cuba ?"
Mr. Morgan said he did not speak for the
committee with regard to the execution
OF prisoners. Mr.. Morgan said the record
mad been deliberately misquoted. He gave
10 the Senate a quotation from a printed
work, and not as a statement of his own.
Mr. Hoar, quoting from one of the let
ters of Mr.. Seward on the subject of
6elligerency. to be read in the ear of
Great Britain by the United States minis
ter during our civil war, laid particular
emphasis upon the word deliberate"
and turning toward Mr.. Sherman, he said,
with touch of sarcasm in his voice:
i m afraid that that word deliberate
IS new to my honorable friend from Ohio,
and my honorable friend from Alabama"
(Mr. Morgan).
Mr. Hoar said he did not believe the
alleged facts before the Senate were suf
uclent to override the great American au-
1noHtles on international law. The Sen
ate was asked to put the seal of its con-
gemnation on the doctrine of Lincoln and
seward, and later, the doctrine of Grant
The resolutions as passed might as
wei have ascribed over Them Mr.. Hoar
sdld, the inscription that they were
PASSED in a Pickwickian sense. Congress
IA not dare to tell Spain that we recog-
nzed the belligerents and proposed to
axe the consequences -
After reciting the definition of an old
democratic judge in Massachusetts on cir