The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28


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debate. Morgan got very hot bcfor
he had finished, and while advocatint
the resolution as the author of it
lprophccied that its result would b,
war with Spain, for which he wa
eager. He also worked in his anti
Clevelandism, talking about the RICH
of congress 10 "makc this declaration
of the recognition of the cllic"rrlcy
or Of the recognition of the indepeud
cnce of Cuba though such actor
would have no diplomatic or inter
national recognition unless indorsco
and promulgated by the president.
This resolution requires the consent OF
both houses before it is passed and
80 comes under the constitutional
prcrogativc of executive veto. His
purpose evidently was to create the
impression that Cleveland has no sym
patty with the Cubans, He quoted
! the statement of an accurate and able
! historian that in the last 10 years
war in Cuba the Spanish minister adj
mitted that in addition TO the 1900
! Cubans killed in battle, i3, 800 pris.
oncrs had been put to death. When
he first read that, he said. he inquired
of himself what Christianity had been
doing in the world, if this age 1t were
possible that such things could be dore
in an island like Cuba, and that this
grand, free re ublc could sit indiffcr-
emily by. knowing the facts. and not
unsheath the sword and strike TO death
the brutal monarch who inflicted
them
Senator Gray, wGo is credited with
being tho spokesman Of the admins
tration followed Morgan Tuesday. He
said that il was within all the propri.
cites which should govern Il great
nation like this that congress should
give dignified and proper expression to
the sympathies of the American peo,
pie for the struggling patriots in
Cuba. But he argued that there WAS
nothing in the constitution Of the
United States in relation to the rccog,
milton of bclligerencv: that was an
out growth of International law and
therefore it belonged in this county
where IN all other matters of similar
aud analogous nature it belonged that
is, To the executive. He did not he.
licve congress had IA right TO accord
the status of belligcrency even by a
Joint resolution.
The House has given most of the
week to the Indian Appropriation bill,
and had q lively fight Tuesday over
the continuance of the commission, of
which President Gates of Amherst is
the head and which had been in ex
istence since President Grants time.
The committee omitted to make any
for it on the ground
that the work could Just as well be
left TO the Indian bureau. But Mccall
Of Massachusetts, succeeded in amend
ing the bill go as 10 restore the com |
In committee of the whole Monday |
the house decided, by vote of SO to |
a. that none of the appropriations for
Indian schools should 90 to sectarian |
reversing the policy proposed
" President Grout and entered upon
Il 1870. Different scots were en- |
outraged to undertake this work, hut
t so happened that the Catholic
,hurch has been most active and sumo
hing like $500, 600 has gone to Cath
'lic schools. The appropriation this
ear was $3.50, 600 1t is generally
greed that the policy has been mis-
aiken and un-American one, and the
Ian was adopted by the last congress
o reduce the appropriations 20 per
emit q year. The attack was led by |,
linton of Michigan, who is the most
Pronounced and open avowed \. 7. A.
lember on the floor. 4 feature of
he debate was that many of those who
acked him are supporters of Mckinley
or president. The Democrats were
did against interfering with the plan ,
dopted by the last congress and Sher-
IAN of New York and Gamble of South d
Dakota, both Republicans, stood with
lom, the former making an especially '
rong argument against so radical Il
nd sudden change. n
The House judiciary committee has y
agreed on the bill to u
oolish fees in the United States Il
1urts and substitute salaries. The p
es last year aggregated S7i,000 and
le proposed schedule of salaries will +
we nearly 500, 900. The same com r
ittee has als) agreed to report the n
orrey bankruptcy bill providing for b
9TH voluntary and involuntary bank o
lptcy. u
Six of the thirteen general appropria- t.
on bills have already been passed by v
C House, and the others are nearly a
adv for the calendar. The senate II
is also disposed of all that it's COM P
ittee has reported.
Senator Morgan has brought out the II
ct, in his examination of &. p. M
before the Senate Pacific q
ilroad committee, that all the pre- dt
utions possible have been taken to a.
event the discovery of the truth l
out the scandals connected with the M
hiding of that road. Huntington VI
ears that all the books and records Jr
We been destroyed and he can't ia
en- remember who the stockholders ca
re. sp
4 last effort will be made to stop tr
G determination of the Alaska seals, IN
d the United States will invite
lssia and England 10 cooperate in We
'ivendi limiting the sea catch in Pc