The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
Oppressors of Cuba Praised as
a Nation Friendly to the
United States.
GOADS SHERMAN AND MORGAN
Angry Responses Called Forth by
Bitter Words-The Argument
Not Concluded.

April, was taken up early in the morning
hour to-day, and after speech by Hoar in
support of it, lost its place in the morning
hour and went to the calendar, from
which there will probably be no
effort to restrrect it. But the
debate in the Senate will go on all the
same tomorrow and until the subject is
disposed of, as the conference report is
privileged question, at least until 2o'clock
tomorrow, when it comes into conflict
with the resolution for seating Dupont as
Senator from the State of Delaware,
question of still higher privilege.
Hoar's speech was largely an arraign-
ment of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions for reporting the concurrent resolu-
ton without having any facts to justify
such action. He appealed to Senator
Sherman, whom he placed on the same
pedestal with Lincoln, Grant, Fish, Seward
and his own illustrious brother, General
Sherman, to recede from the position
which he had taken, and the only reason
for which was, he intimated, because
Presidential election was at hand.
Hoar said some very severe things about
the action of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and said that when it wrote the
word concurrent" at the head of the reso-
luton it meant it was to be distinctly un
derstood, that this was to be a Pickwickian
resolution. Hoar deplored the idea of
rushing matters through Congress that
properly belonged to the function of the
State Department. He did not agree with
Secretary Olney politically, but he knew
h oil ha hon.
est, old-fashioned Massachusetts, Yankee,
and Hoar said he was not afraid to trust
him in the diplomatic affairs of this Gov
ernment.
Hoar then related a story of one of the
old Emperors who was walking along
narrow path, accompanied by a fine lady
of his court, when they met a laborer car
rying heavy burden. The lady refused
to step aside, when the Emperor COM
manded her to respect the burden the man
was carrying. Applying this to existing
conditions, Hoar said the people and the
press, in criticizing the President and the
administration in the Venezuelan and
Spanish question, should respect the
burden that rested upon them and the re-
sponsibilities that belonged to the Execu-
tive alone.
1t was to be lamented Hoar said, that
the youth of the Spanish universities had
been so excited as to offer indIgnities to
the American flag, and that the Minister
from Spain, gentleman OF great accom-
plishments and the representative OF
friendly power, was stung into breaking
over diplomatic propriety and making an
appeal, in an irregular way, to the people
of the United States.
Hoar spoke in that connection of Spain
as the ally and friend of the American
colonies in the war of independence, and
as having exercised potent influence in
preventing armed intervention by France
and Great Britain in the Civil War.
The Senate, Hoar declared. must do its
duty with courage and frmness. WHAT
ever the Senate did should be done in a
calm, quiet, dignifed spir it. as befitted
the action OF great people. 1t ought to
initiate not the excitement of mobs; it
ought to indulge not in the impassioned
eloquence of orators and not in the stimu-
liant appeals or the love of liberty, or to
any other public passion, good or bad.
This was time and an occasion for the
judicial faculty.
Hoar said he had authorized his col
league some weeks ago to pair him in favor
of Senator Cameron's resolution asking the
President to use his good offices with Spain
for the recognition of Cuban independ-
ence. For that reason he stood to-day and
was prepared to defend it if necessary.
He said that the question of belligerency
was a question of fact. and it was reasona-
BILE that the usual precautions should be
taken. The Senate should have before it
the finding of facts by the proper COM
mittee charged with the investigation.
This subject was discussed In the COM
mittee for several days and was brought
into the Senate without any report, but
accompanied by speech from Senator
Morgan, who laid his sword on the table
and asked Spain to take it up, and de-
clared his belief in the power of Congress
without the President to grant belligerent
rights. The other speech, that Of Sher-
man, contained quotations from work
that was repudiated. Upon these state
ments and without any presentation of
facts Congress was asked to act.
Hoar accused the Foreign Relations
Committee of passing its resolution upon a
statement contained in a letter from the
agent of the Cuban Junta. Sherman took
exceptions to this statement, declaring
that the letter came from the State De-
partment itself.
Hoar was complaining of the lack of in
formation before the Senate ON the Cuban
question when Sherman called his atten-
ton to printed document OF 200 pages,
containing message from the President
and all the correspondence conducted by
the State Department.
This document has been before the
Senate for more than two weeks, and was
open to the Senate all the time," said
| Sherman, somewhat petulantly.
81 don't believe anybody ever read it."
retorted Hoar. whether the members of
the committee did 1 do not know"
II quoted from that document in my
speech literally" said Morgan, land that
speech was in the nature of report from
| the committee"
"Then," said Hoar. with apparent glee.
| ''you spoke for the committee when you