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TO PROTECT THEM.
Interests Of Americans Condemned
to Death Being Considered,
Senate Adopts Morgan's Resolution
Asking for nformation-Du-
pont Voted Out.

Washington, May 1o.--1n response to
senate resolution, Attorney General
Harmon Saturday informed the senate
that there were no aliens employed in
the department of Justice.
Senate bill to provide compensation
| for bridge und other improvements
in the grounds OF the Yellowstone Ma
tional park was reported and passed.
Also senate bill granting right of
way to the Denver, Cripple Creek &
Southwest Railroad company through
the South Park and Plum Creek Forest
reservations in Colorado.
| Also senate bill appropriating $780,
900 for a public building at McKeesport,
Pa.
| Morgan Speaks on His Resolution.
The resolution offered Friday by Sen
ator Morgan (dem., Ala.) in relation to
the sentence of American citizens cap
tured on the Competitor in Cuban wa
tiers, was taken up, and Senator Morgan
addressed the senate thereon. The re-
| cent action of congress, he said, recog-
nizing belligerency Of the Cubans had
not been received by the Spanish gov
eminent and people as representing the
attitude Of the government and people
of the United States on the subject.
The United States had in no way melted
or promoted the instruction which
was attended with such barburities and
which had drawn into it's vortex citi-
portant rights of persons and property.
1t had been difficult task to restrict
the wrath of the American people when
they saw their own government stand
by while those un-Christnn barburitics
were being summarily perpetruted. 1t
was utterly preposterous to assert that
/; state of war did not exist there. 1t
shocked common sense that the United
States government was being compelled
| by diplomatic pcetenses to admit that
peace prevailed in Cuba.
Calls the Queen Regent Cruel
Senator Morgan referred to the recent
speech or message to the Spanish cortes
of the queen regent, speaking of her
as "cruel monaroh," and said that if
Spain had understood three years ago
that under the conditions that now eX
list the United States would recogniz,
the belligerency of both parties, Cuba
would have been to-day as free as the
Canadians are.
Every day that Americans suffered
imprisonment ut the hands of the Span
ish government was a day of national
humiliation to the American people.
Resolution Is Adopted.
AT the conclusion of Senator Nor
gan's speech the resolution offered by
him Friday was adopted.
| 1t directs the committee on foreign
relations to inquire and report to the
senate what are the rights of the United
States under treaties with Spain as to
the trial of American citizens arrested
in Cuba and now under sentence of
death; calls on the secretary of state for
a copy of the Cushing protocol of 1877,
and requests the president to furnish
| copies Of any correspondence bearing
upon the trial and condemnation of
! citizens of the United States who were
recently captured on or near the ves-
sci called the Competitor.
Dupont Voted Out.
The claim of Mr.. Henry A.. Dupont for
the vacant seat in the senate from the
state of Delaware was decided adverse
ly to him late Friday afternoon by ma
jority of one. The result of all the
legal and constitutional arguments for
and against was that the republican
senator's to u man voted in favor of the
claim; that the democrats voted Just as
unanimously ag:.inst it, and that the
populists allied themselves solidly on
the democi attic side, making the vote
on the amendment which declared that
Mr.. Dupont was not entitled to the seat
81 to 30.