The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-03


Done In the Senate and House Yester-
day.
washington, March 2.-Mr. Frye presented
ap petition on the American Protective
Assoelaton OF Maine, protesting against
placing the statut of Pierre Marquette, in
Statuary hall of the Capitol
A conference, on the order of the army ap-
appropriation bill was ordered and Senators
Quay, Republican of Pennsylvania, Hale of
MAINE, and Faulkner, Democrat of West Vir-
g1nia, were appointed conferees.
sihe frest's veto on the bill for Lexington
school lands in Ariz was read The bill and
message were referred to the committee on
public lands.
The Senate b i'll to prevent the carrying of
obscene literature from one state OF territory
into mother, was taken up, amended and
passed.
The Senate resolution relative to the arrest
OF Mark E. Rodriguez and Louis Someillan
and his son. cilizens of the United States in
CUBA, requesting the President if the arrests
were found to be unjust, to demand their
| release, was agreed to. The Cuban resol-
utlons as passedby the House, were passed
by the Senate and referred to the cmmittee
on foreign relations.
| Mr.. Call, Democrat of Florida, offered the
following resolution: Resolved by the Senate
that the President of the United States be
requested to demand of the government of
Spain, statement as to the truth of the
charges made in letter published in the
newspapers purporting to be from Mr..
Gomez late editor of La Luchae, a news
paper in Havana, that he had been tortured
While confined in a dungeon on the bare
ground, for two months, in the Ceuta penal
colony of Spain, to extort from him evidence
against Julius Sanguilly, a naturalized citi-
zen of the United States and subsequently
killed. Also to insist ON full report of teh
evidence and all proceeds in the alleged
civil trial of Julius Sanguilly, in which it is
charged he was condemned to imprisonment
for life at Ceuta, on suspicio n only, without
evidence and also to demand the release of
Charles Nicholson and Lorenzo Betancourt,
correspondents of New York newspapers,
charged only with entering within the in
surgent lines to obtain information also de-
mand of Spain all American citizens who
shall be captured by the Spanish forces,
shall treated as prisoners of war and be
be accorded humane treatment; and inform
the Spanish government that the United
States will insist on this demand. After re-
marks by Mr.. Call the resolution was referred
to the committee on foreign relations.
After an executive session the Senate ad-
| journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
The Senate joint resolution directing
the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase
| and distribute seeds, etc., as in the pre-
ceding years, was agreed to.
| Mr Hit, chairman of foreign affairs
m m Iod fa hc,,
questions. and moved to suspend the
rules and pass the resolutions reported
| by the House foreign affairs committee
in lieu of the Senate resolutions. The
| House resolutions recite briefly that in
the opinion OF Congress, a state Ct war
are entitled to belligerent lights, deplore
the destruction of life and property in
the islands, believes the solution of
| trouble lies Ia the establishment Of GOV
ernment. the choice of the Cuban people,
and conclude with a declaration that the
| United States should protect American
| interests thereby by intervention il neoes-
sary.
Mr.. McCreary, Democrat of Kentucky.
desired to know why the fourth in the
above series of resolutions was not read.
The resolution pledged to the rest, the
support of Congress in carrying out the
foregoing resolutions.
Mr.. HIT said the greater nu mber of
the committee requested him to drop the
fourth resolution since its sense was
contained in the preceding resolutions.
Mr.. BoutsIie demanded second to the
motion and it was ordered 175 to 49, At
the request of Mr.. Hit So minutes on
each side was allowed for debate.
| Mr.. Boutelle of Maine opposed the
resolutions. He said he hardly expected
to convince all the members of the House
that their public duty did not require
them to vote for the resolutions. He
desired to emphasize his expression of
a few days ago when he objected to the
summary disposition of question of the
gravest character by what ought to be