The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
1t Is Time, Declares the Ala.
bama Senator, for Uncle
Sam to Step the Pillage.
CONGRESS SHOULD CVERRULE
THE PRESIDENT.
This Government Must Extend a
Hand TO Those in the Grip of
Robbers and CutthroatS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 15.-Morgan
cd of Alabama occupied more than an
hour In the Senate To-Day in presenting
-. arguments to show why the United States
should at once intervene to put an end to
3. the war IN CUBA. The speech attracted
:; very little attention either on the floor or
in the galleries.
-: i. The resolution offered yesterday by
Morgan requesting the President to
:furnish copies of papers relating to the
Condition OF affairs in Cuba as to the Com
.Petitor case, was taken up and Morgan
addressed the Senate on the subject.
The people and the property of the
island were, he declared, the prey of COM
missioned guerrIllas who had become
:robbers, cutthroats, assassIns, ravishers
ahd pirates, and an end had TO be put to
that 'saturnalia of blood and fire.
. In commenting upon the Presidents
., message, Morgan said that it was
marked feature in it that the President
assumed that the issue between Cuba and
: Spain was either independence or exter-
mination. The President had warned
Spain that the time Tor decisive action
was near at hand and that if he should
.
d. American people would sustain him.
American citizers OF Cuba had rights un-
der the law of nations which the courts of
the United States and of all neutral coun-
tries would protect and enforce even IN
despite Of opposition from the President,
if he should oppose them. The Unitsd
States Government would be in the most
humiliating state of 'innocuous desue-
81, Il.
the sufferers in Cuba and if it refused to
forbid further devastation and death
which cruel government was now infict-
ing.
After quoting some paragraphs from the
Presidents message Morgan asserted that
Congress had never been presented with
stronger or more moving statement of
facts than had been thus solemnly laid
before the political and warm making de-
parrments of the Government.
Speaking OF the Presidents annual mes
sage on he subject of Cuba, Morgan said
lit was or the most i'm pressive importance
as statement of the leading facts, and
that he had not heard that Spain contro-
verted any OF the Presidents state
ments. He condemned .'the cruel and
inhuman butchery' practiced by the
Spaniards, and said that if the United
States wanted TO stop war of annihIl-
alton and extermination it was time to do
so. Congress, he said, should not hesitate
TO declare (for the reasons stated in the
Presidents message) that the indepen-
dence be recognized.
Morgan went on to discuss the condi-
ton OF Americans sentenced to death in
Cuba on account of their connection with
the Competitor, and spoke of the United
States standing by and witnessing that
tragedy because interference would be
perilous and injurious to certain business
interests.
If the United States were to intervene at
all he would prefer open war. And he
would vote for a resolution to that effect,
his Justification being the law OF nations
as ne understood it and the feeling he
entertained for those who lifted up their
appealing hands and called for help
against appalling cruelty and misrule.
No State In Spanish America has been
forced TO endure such oppression, in peace
and war, as the Presidents message had
Justly charged to Spanish rule IN Cuba.
The United States had no alternative but
the choice between the continuous repeti-
ton of terrible evils practiced by the
Spanish or a base humiliation and cruel
delay while rapine and destruction were
rampant He hoped that some fortunate
turn in events might relieve the United
States from duty it owed to Christian
civilization.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Morgan's
speech, WHICH was read from manuscript,
the resolution was agreed 10.