The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-03

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The bill
passed by the senate today for the in
crease of the navy, attracted consid-
cradle attention in view of the tension
over Spanish-Cuban affairs.
In explaining the measure, Mr. Hale
of Maine, who reported it from the
naval committee, said that While ne
did not believe the United States would
be involved in war as a result OF me
present troubles yet he considered 1t
desirable to give the president author-
ity in case of emergency to call out
the naval militia and charter private
ships for naval transportation. The
bill was passed authorizing the add1-
ton of
1000 ENLISTED MEN
to the navy. the enlistinS for not more
than two years of the naval militia
forces in case of emergency and the
chartering of transport ships in case
of emergency. The bill passed under
the five minute rule and by unanimous
vote. Another bill of general interest
passed which established a retired list
for the revenue marine service, similar
to the retirement system of the army
AID navy. Most of the day was given
ITO the senate calendar and many minor
bills were passed.
The Spanish Cuban question came to
the attention of the senate soon after
the days session opened, when Mr..
Call (Dem) of Florida, urged the adop-
ton of the following resolution:
Resolved, by the senate, that the
president of the United States be re-
Quested to demand OF the government
of Spain a statement as to the truth
of the charges made in a letter pub
lished in the newspapers purporting to
be from Gomez, late editor of the La
Lucia, a newspaper published in Ha-
vana, that he had been tortured while
confined in a dungeon on the bare
ground for two months in Ceuta, the
penal colony of Spain, to eXtort from
him evidence against Julius Sanguilly,
a naturalized citizen of the United
States. and subsequently killing the
said Gomez; also to insist upon a full
report of the evidence and all proceed
ingS in the
ALLEGED CIVIL TRIAL
of julius Sanguilly, in which it is charg-
ed that the said Sanguilly was con-
demned to imprisonment for life at
Ceuta, on suspicion only, and without
evidence; also to demand the release
of Charles Nicholson and Lorenzo Re
tancourt, correspondents Of New York
newspapers, who are charged only with
entering within the insurgent lines TO
obtain information also to demand Of
Spain that all American citizens who
shall be captured by the Spanish forces
shall be treated as prisoners of war,
and be accorded humane treatment
and to inform the Spanish government
that the United States will insist on
this demand
Mr.. Call read from newspaper ex-
tracts the reports of barbarities perpe-
.trated on Gomez and others. These
set forth that the wife of Gomez had
received a letter from him written in
his blood shortly before he died in the
Spanish penal colony in Africa
The senator declared that Americans
serving in the Cuban army were being
SHOT TO DEATH WITHOUT TRIAL.
He declared that the recent action of
the senate should be supplemented by
steps to secure humane treatment of
prisoners taken by the Spanish troops.
Mr.. Sherman moved to refer the res
olution to the foreign relations COM
mittee which was agreed to. Senator
Gear presented Senator Allisons Gre
dentials for the term beginning March
4, 1897.
A resolution by Mr. Allen, of Ne
braska, was agreed to, calling on the
secretary of the treasury for informa-
ton on the earnings of the Pacific
railroads from the time of their organ
ization.
The presidents veto of the bill con-
corning Arizona lands, with a report
from the house that the bill had been
passed over the veto in that body was
presented and the entire subject refer
red to the committe on public lands.
The bill passed to prevent the carry
ing of
OBSCENE LITERATURE
and articles designed for indecent and
immoral use from one state or territory
to another.
The following bills were passed
Providing certain requirements for
vessels propelled by naptha, gas, fluid
or electric motors: establishing a. ma
val training station on Goat island,
in the harbor of San Francisco; appro-
priating $1,000 to the Fort Donaldson
National cemetery, Dover, Tenn; for
the promotion of COmmodOres l.. C..
Sartori and o. c. Badger to be rear
admirals; to authorize the ST Louis &.
Oklahoma City Railroad company to
construct railway through the Indian
and Oklahoma territories; appropriat
ing $150,000 for a revenue cutter for
service in the Gulf of Mexico and tri-
butaries. and amending the law as to
the conspicuous marking of vessels
names on their bows and sterns and
for marking the draught.
The bill to prevent the dissertation
of the national flag was made the spe-
cial order for Friday next at 2 o'clock.
The house
RESOLUTIONS ON CUBA
were reported and referred 70 4ba cono-
mittee on foreign relations.
At 4:40 the senate held a. brief exec
utive session and shortly after adj
journed.
1T WAS TOUGH.
PERRY. Ok, March News of a
terrible fight between fifteen officers and
four outlaws lust reached here by cour-