The sun., 1896-03-14
CUBA'SCAUSE IN CONGRESS
ITs OPPONENTS IN THE SENATE
FIGH7IH0 FOR DELAY.

| FIGH7IE0 FOR DELAY.
They De-,.nd TINT the CONFIDENTIAL Corre-
| spondenco from the state Department Bo
Laid Herore tho sennto-Tho Commit-
too VIII DO SO In Executive Session.
| WARRINGTON, March 13.-No headway what.
| ever was made bv the Senate to-day toward
| adopting the conference report on tho Cuban
| resolutions, and II Is now certain that vote
| will not be reached for several days. The OPP
| ponsnts Of the Cuban cause, having exhausted
all Legitimate methods of delay have now raised
| the point that the information as to the situa-
tion OF affairs in Cui that formed the basis OF
the action Of the Foreign Relations Committee
should be laid before the Senate. and. on being
told that this Information was confidential.
they at once demanded that tho Cuban ques
ton should be brought into executive session.
On this point quito a lively episode occurred In
the early proceedings OF the Senate, and the
| antl-Cuban Senators managed to become quito
indignant at what they arc pleased to regard
as the unfair treatment OF the Foreign Rela.
uons Committee
The truth OF the matter Is that the confiden-
tial communication from the State Department
TO the Foreign Relations Committee, which wns
all the information possessed by the committee
Tint was not accessible to the public, is COM
posed chiefly Of statement of the Cuban situn-
tion by the Spanish Minister, Mr.. Dupuy dc
LONE, and read to the committee by Mr..
Frye. Members Of the committee are authority
for the statement that this communication,
which 1t seems is to be used for further
prolonging the debate In the Senate and delay.
Ing the taking OF u vote. confirms little In ad.
dition to what set forth In the letter
which Minister Dupuy dc LONE sent to the
newspapers for publication on Monday last
and for which he has been SO severely rebuked
In, In IN I,1n % tl,s,y fntx In
The Senators who favor the cause of Cuba
and who attempting to secure n vote upon
tho adoption of the conference report complain
that It Is very hard to suit their opponents. who
objected to the original Cuban resolutions be-
cause they were not strong enough. and who
now oppose those comprised In the conference
report because they are too strong. These OBJ
jections, they say, are all made for the purpose
of delay and to complicate the situation in the
Senate that the vote OH the conference report
can be longer nostponed.
When the Cuban question again comes up IN
tbs Senate it Will be in executive session, when
the members of the Foreign Relations Com
mttee will point out to their opponents that
the facts upon which they based the rcsolu-
tions in behalf of Cuban bclligerency amply
justified their action. The Administration is
very desrous of creating the impression that
the Foreign Relations Committee acted with
out sufficient knowledge Of the facts on file In
the State Department. These facts, the state
Department officials say. are not such rs to
warrant the passage of Il resolution by Congress
assuming that a var is in progress and rccog-
nzing the n,urgent army rs bclligerents. Sen.
ators Sherman, Lodge, and others have care
ully perused all the documents III the state DE.
partment bearing upon the Cuban question and
Information, and they have no fear of being
able TO convince the Senate and the country
fhns flNn fnpf lnI hnn lnsfI
Ned tho action OF the Foreign Relations Com.
mttees Of both Houses In framing 81, the re,Cln Is
shape of the conference report.
by the United Press.
metiately after the reading of the jour
nal in the Senate to-day Mr.. Lodge rep.
MasS.I called attention to II statement made
YESTERDAY by Senator sherman rs to II cominu-
ncaton which he Mr. Lodge) was supposed to
private papers which he was supposed to have
received CONCERNING affairs il Cuba III"
had no communication with Mr. Olney, and
had received from him no private pnnsrs. The
the question. and which was sent 70 the, com
rend 10 the full committee by one OF It's mem
bers. NJ; Frye OF Maine; The rcndng Of those
ana had been mentioned by the Senator from
Ohio simply by inadvertencc.
shs He nreea the a at III ha na hs
tn which he hnd referred had come from the
State Department. at the request of the com
m!t!ee. and had been fully read BY the Senator
from Mnine.
Mr. Hoar n,ep. Mass, commented uron
these disclosures rs presenting remarkable
papers referred to ought not to be laid before
tho Senate
Certainly. in executive session." said Mr..
Sherman.
All right" said Mr.. Hoar; ''lct tho Senator
from Ohio move an executive session."
Mr.. Wolcott tRCp.. COl.D suggested that the
Senate found itself in an unusual dilemma. IF
1t were essential The did not think il wasl that
Congress should act on the question Of tuban
brligerency, the Senate was confronted with
the position of having to vote on questions of
fact on testimony rcposi nS in the breasts of the
members Of the Committee on Foreign Re!a-
tions alone-teStmOny which they could not
executive session. Then the resolution had to
20 to the House. where there was no executive
session. and where the facts could never be
known. The members Of that body were ah.
solutely without Knowledge Of a single one of
the facts which til" Committee on Foreign Re-
have TO vot" for or against bclliscrency. IIe
would be glad to have explained To him whether
or not Senators were expected to yield their
own Judgment and conscience and to follow the
opinion tntelligently formed. no doubt of the
Committee on FOREIGN Relations. based upon
Information which could not oe divulged.
Mr.. Hawley rep. Comm expressed hope
TINT there might he some dec clnrntinn prepared
BY the Committee OF Foreign Relations in
which all Senators could join with satiSfac-
tion; and he said that he would Mt the proper
time move To insist upon the Senatc's disagree
ment to the House substitute for the Cuban
resolution and ask for II further conference.
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