The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-21
THERE WAS NO TIME LOST
CUBAN RESOLUTIONS WE'RE QUICK
LYTAKEN UP IN the SENATE.

Mr.. Caf1'ery Continued His Speech on the
subject-senator Platt Agreed With the
Eema ks of senator Call-Joint Kesoiu-
ton introduced by Senator Morgan.
Washington, March 20.-There was no
time lost in getting at the conference
report on the Cuban resolutions this
morning. The reading of yesterday
journal was dispensed with and there
was little or no morning business to pe
disposed Of Mr.. Sherman, rep, of ONO,
promptly moved that the conference re-
port be taken UP, but as soon as that
motion was agreed to and the report
laid before the senate Mr.. Allen, pop,
of Nebraska, requested that ne mlghe
address the senate for half an hour on
the Dupont election case, Mr. Sher-
man, recognizing as he said that the
Dupont case was a privileged question,
yielded the point gracefully, ana Mr.
Allen addressed the senate in opposl-
tion to the claim of Mr.. Dupont to
seat in the senate from the state or
Delaware.
One of Mr.. Aliens points being thatno
senator should be admitted without a
gubernatorial sertiticate, or without an
application for mandamus for such
certificate, Mr.. Chandler suggested that
that rule would have excluded the sem
ator from Florida (Mr. CalD and would
have deprived the senate of the many
eloquent arguments on various subjects
which that senator had made. Mr. AL
len wound UP his speech by declaring
that he would vote against Mr. Dupont
being recognized as senator.
A motion to adjourn over until Mon
day was made by Mr.. German, DEM, of
Maryland, and was, in the absence of
Mr.. Sherman, objected to by Mr.. Lodge,
rep, Of Massachusetts,, who desired to
have action on the Cuban resolutions.
A call of the senate was had, in order
to give time for Mr.. Sherman to return
to the chamber; and sixty senator's re-
sponded.
In the meantime Mr.. Sherman return
ed and he expressed the hope that the
motion to adjourn over would not be
agreed to unless there was first an
agreement reached as to a time for TAX
ing the vote on the Cuban resolutions.
To that proposition a strong objection
was made by Mr.. Hale, rep of Maine,
on the ground that two-thirds of the
time occupied in the Cuban discussion
had been occupied by the members of
the committee on foreign relations or of
those who sympathized with their re-
port, and that there were many sena-
tors who desired to be heard on the
~ ei Ia nf "a Question The vote
was taken on Mr.. Gormans motion and
1t was agreed to-yeas 40, nays %, as
follows:
Yeas-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Brice, Bur-
rows, Butler, Caffrey Cannon. Carter,
Chiffon, Cockrell, Davis, Dubois, Faulk
ner. Gibson. German, Gray, Hale, Har-
ris, Hill, Irby, Jones of Arkansas, Me-
Millin, Martin, Mitchell of Wisconsin,
Morrill,, Pasco, PETER, Platt, Pugh,
Roach, Sewell, Smith, Stewart. Teller,
Thurston, Turpie, Villas, Walthall, Wet
more, White, Wolcott-42.
Nays-Baker, Blanchard, Brown, Call,
Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Frye, Gal
linger, Kyle, Lodge, Mills, Mitchell of
Oregon, Morgan, Nelson, Perkins, Proc
tor, Sherman, Shoup, Tillman, Vest,
Wilson--22.
Mr. Mitchell, rep, of Oregon, chair
man of the committee on privileges and
elections, reported joint resolution for
the election of United States senators
by the people, and gave notice that,
as soon as possible, he would move to
have 1t taken up and considered.
LAS one of the minority of the COM
mittee," MI. Chandler said, 81 give no.
tice that the motion of the senator from
Oregon will be vigorously opposed"
Mr. Gray, dem, of Delaware, another
member of the committee, said that the
views of the minority would be pre-
pared and submitted to the senate.
The conference report on the Cuban
resolutions was then taken up and Mr.
Caffery, DEM, of Louisiana, continued
the speech begun by him yesterday in
opposition to the report and contending
that the exercise of the power of recog-
nizing belligerent rights was exclusive
ly in the executive branch of the gov
ernment.
Mr.. Caffery protested against the
epithets that had been hurled at Spain
during the debate He characterized
them as not befitting the dignity of the
senate. He argued that the resolutions
were gratuitous insult to Spain and
amounted almost to war; Why, he
asked, was Spanish history raked up to
show the sanguinary character of
Spaniards, if it was not to inflame the
warIike passions of the American peo-
pie. He objected to considering the
question of belligerency from any other
point than that sanctioned by interna-
tional law.
Mr.. Call spoke of the opponents of the
resolutions as advocates of Imperialism
and criticised the argument of Mr.. Caf
frey. Mr. Call relied upon "outrages
upon American citizens in Cuba" as
a reason for taking into consideration
the recognition of belligerency or of
independence in that island.
Mr.. Platt, rep, of Connecticut, said
that he agreed with Mr.. Call that what
ever the United States should doNin the
Cuban matter it should do it in a manly
and straightforward fashion. If the
United States intervened to the extent
of saying to Spain that the United
States government had concluded that
Cuba ought to be free and Independent
then the United States should aid Cuba
and go to war to give that aid. He
wanted to know what Mr.. Call thought
the United States ought to do.
Mr.. Call-The first action would be
to say what Mr.. Seward said to Spain,
and then see what effect that would