The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-12

able to report what was true and what
was not true
Mr., Hoar warned senators that the
adoption of the resolutions meant the
denial of the rule of international law
which we insisted on so strenuously dur
! ing the rebellion and to which the
! United States committed itself through
our ministers to all foreign courts, in
Guiding that OF Spain.
IF we are pledged in national honor TO
anything said he, cit is that the
| Cubans are not entitled to belligerent
! rights under any circumstances"
/ He read some OF the Instructions of
! Secretary Seward, and quoted the words
! of President Wolsey of Yale college,
against granting the right of belliger-
ency, to show that if granted belligerency
1t would have to be withdrawn once the
SUCCESS OF THE REVOLUTION
seemed impossible He would like to
know, he said, if it was not matter of
great gravity for forty-five states to de-
! clare against otTr traditional policy and
the statement of that eminent interna-
tional authority.
! viii you he asked. looking atsout the
senate, put the seal of your condemna-
| ton on the doctrine which Lincoln and
| Seward, and later Grant, stood by in two
OF the most important crises in our bis
Mr.. Hoar cited writers of interna-
tonal law, showing the elements re-
! quisite before a state of war could be
recognized as existing. Then, returning
to his personal reference to Mr.. Sherman
who had temporarily left the chamber
| Mr.. Hoar, added: Referring to Sherman,
| he will go down in history as one of the
great men of the day,-along with Lin
coin, Grant, Fish and Seward and his
own illustrious brother-men to whom
/ God in his providence had given the task
OF maintaining the government and L
trust that if my friend (Shernnan) has I'M
guardedly placed himself in a position on
this question. washing out as it were with
sponge that
ILLUSTRoUS RECORD
of the past, he will pause in his course
and will prefer to continue with those
great characters with whom he has been
! associated.
This proposed Cuban resolution had no
! plnd1ng effect, Mr.. Hoar went on. 1t did
not bind the president, or the senate, or
the house, or the people. 1t was a mere
declaration that this means nothing"
ba Inc conn tie in reporting it should
tlnctly understood that this is Pick
| Wlckian resolution without force, or
| Vlgor, or potency, or meaning"
IN oILerlIlS TINS resolution we had not
dared to tell Spain that we recognized the
| insurgents; we had not dared to give the
! president authority to take decisive &C
ton. 1t was merely a mooted debate, to
allow senators to see who could make the
most
! Here Mr.. Hoar related a story showing
that public excitement did not always
Drlng serious results Applying this to
! the local situation the senator said that
II we see great crowd gathered about
! the navy yard and much excitement pre-
Yalllng, 1t does not mean that we are
gong to have war, but an election
is going on
The laughter had hardly subsidized when
Mr.. Hoar added: 'And so it is with this
| resolution from the committee. After all
| it
MAY NOT MEAN WAR
but that a presidential election is ap-
The senator said if this resolution was
| adopted and any American maker of
arms sold arms to Cubans he could be
| indicted for a breach of the neutrality
/ laws, and would have no defense in the
resolution recognizing the Cubans as bel
| ligarents
rs not that so? I ask my honorable
| friend from Ohio?'' asked Mr.. Hoar ad-
dressing Mr.. Sherman, amid laughter
! poSition?"
Mr.. Sherman did not answer and Mr..
| Hoar, continuing, said that all this
AGITATION AvAILED NOTHING.
The president was the only power cap
able of relieving ambassadors, making
treaties and recognizing belIigerents.
At this point Mr.. Hoar created a stir
| Oiuey. The senator led up to this by re-
ferring TO the constant meddling of con-
| greSs with foreign questions. He re-
ferred to the Venezuela question, in
which, however, the course of congress
had been temperate. But if it had been
found that the president was conduct
ing negotiations with Great Britain on
that subject, then it would have been
well for the press and the public and the
senate to let 1t alone and allow the ne
EQUATIONS TO proceed through the US
ual channels of the state department
Mr.. Olney has got a very good head,
in my opinion. ] do not agree with him
in politics, but he is a good, square, hon
est, clear-headed, old-fashioned
MASSACHUSETTS YANKEE
and am willing to trust him with the
diplomacy of this government.
They say that the presidents mes
sage contained menace of war with
England. England does not seem TO I'm
derstand it so. but suDposing it did he
! said in the face Of the civilized world
and he has said in the rightfUl exer-
else of his authority and discharge of
his duty as the chief executive OF this
republic and to humiliate him for it,
or to condemn him fer 1t, is to humiliate
and condemn America in the face of the
| nations of the world. There is not any
danger OF war with England. We do not
mean to make war with her, and she
does not mean to make. war with us
When the president of the United States,
discussing the QueSLlOn WneIner JOnn
Bull was crowding a little American
state out of her rights, utters a phrase
which cannot be recalled, 1 think. we
had
BETTER HOLD OUR PEACE
if we do not like it and go on with the
negotiations"
Mr.. Hoar related how the first Napo-
leon was walking with a lady 1Then a
workman, bearing a heavy burden was
encountered. The naughty woman sought
to have the workman step aside, but
the emperor said: Madam, respect the
burden" Applying this to the great Vene-
zuela controversy. Mr.. Hoar said he
felt like saying 10 the critics of Presi-
dent Cleveland, Respect the burden"
The presiding officer announced that at
o'clock Mr.. Hears resolutions would
lose theIir place and go to the calen-
dar. Mr.. Aldrich asked that unanimous
consent be given that the resolutions re
tain their place. Mr.. Morgan objected.
Mr.. Sherman interposed that he pro-
posed to press the privileged question,
the conference report agreeing to the
house Cuban resolutions before the SEN
ate He did not intend to allow it to be
put aside by this resolution of Mr.
Hoar's for delay. The presiding officer