The record-union., 1896-03-17

norant Immigrants Pugh Ad-
Coinage of Silver at Mints of the
United States With the Same Rights
as Gold-Morgan Speaks in Support
of the Conference Report on the
Cuban Belligerency Resolutions.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-There
were three speeches made in the Senate
to-day on as many different subjects.
The first was by Lodge Rep.) OF Mas
sachusetts, and was in favor Of such a
change in the immigration laws as will
keep out illiterate and ignorant immi-
grants The second was by Pugh of
Alabama, and was in favor of the coin
age of silver at the Mints of the United
States with the same rights as gold.
The third speech was by Morgan of
Alabama in support of the conference
report on the Cuban belligerency reso-
lutions. He referred to the alleged dis
patch from the Spanish Prime Minister
which Senator Hale had read last week,
and said that it now came out that Mr.
Canovas was not responsible for it. The
Senator from Maine had been over
reached. He had mistaken the Span
lard, who had neither mercy nor consid-
Grafton. Morgan without finishing his
speech, yielded for a motion to adjourn.
When the Senate met ElkinS of West
Virginia offered a resolution instruct
ing the Committee on Foreign Rela-
items to report to the Senate, before a
vote is taken, setting forth whether or
not there exists a state of war in Cuba.
If so, how long it has existed; the num-
Der of men and officers engaged on each
side; whether or not the insurgents
have a legislative and organized Gov
ernment; what cities and towns in the
interior and on the sea coast they oc-
cupy, and what effect the passage of
the resolutions would have on the in
surgents, the Spanish Government and
the United States. The resolution went
over.
Cannon Rep) of Utah called up
bill in reference to the Uintah and I'm
ccmpahgre Indian reservations in Utah,
and attacked the policy of the Secretary
of the Interior in relation to those lands,
declaring that the Secretary had no
against the plain provisions of the law.
He protested in the name of the people
of the West against the course of the
Secretary The bill went over for the
present
Call Dem.) of Florida offered a res
olution, which was agreed to, directing
the Secretary to inform the Senate
what orders have been issued from the
Treasury Department to seize vessels
loaded with arms apd munitions of
war and with passengers aboard, sup
posed to be destined for Cuba, and by
what authority such seizures and ar
rests have been made.
Palmer Oem.) of Illinois offered a
resolution, which went over for a future
day, declaring that the unlimited coin
age of silver by the United States with
forced legal tender quality would sub
vert the existing legal and commercial
established values.
Lodge Rep.) of Massachusetts then
took the floor and addressed the Sem
ate on the immigration bill. He made
a strong argument in favor of the fur
ther restriction of immigration, so far
as illiterate and ignorant immigrants
are concerned.
At the close of Lodges remarks the
measure was returned to the calendar,
and the House tariff bill with the FL
nance Committees free coinage amend
ment was taken up.
Pugh Dem.) of Alabama addressed
the Senate on the financial question He
argued as a remedy for the present
financial situation, the restorat ton of
silver to the same rights of coinage that
gold has by the re-enactment of the
Coinage Act of 1887, which President
jackson approved, ana the re-estab-
lishment thereby of the only true BIZ
metallic system.
At the conclusion of Pughs speech
the conference report on the Cuban bel
ligerency resolutions was taken up, and
Morgan Dem.) of Alabama, a member
Of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
addressed the Senate in favor of the
adoption of the report.
Morgan went through and gave a
brief resume from a pile of petitions
and memorials from all parts of the
country in favor of the independence of
Cuba. They came, he said, from almost
every county in the United States, and
represented wide-reaching range of
petitioners.
Hale (Rep.) of Maine remarked that
ali Senators were familiar with the
methods of which most of the petitions
presented to Congress were gotten up
He did not know whether it was soIin
this case, but he presumed that all these
petitions were under a printed heading
sent out from a single source. The
spontaniety of the petitions came, not
from the country, but from New York
and Washington.
Morgan made some deprecatory re-
marks about the business, conserva-
tive and property owning men who
wanted to prevent any legislation that
might cost them little money or cause
a little disturbance of business rela-
tions. He went on to say that the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations had not
supposed that it was dealing improp-
erly with that great mass of petitions.
His object was, he said, to show the
amount of pressure that had been
brought to bear on the committee to
show how conservative and careful
that committee had been.
Hale made an inquiry about the paper
from the Spanish Minister to which
Sherman had 'sunwarily'' referred to
the other day; and he asked why the
Committee on Foreign Relations had not
reported the fact of that paper to the
Senate
Morgan explained that the paper had
been communicated by the Spanish Min
lister 10 Mr.. Olney and that Mr.. Olney
had concluded it to be his duty to send
it to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions. It had not been sent in any form.
1t was the original paper that had been
sent, and it was returned to the Secre-
tary of State