The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-09
CALLS LODGE A PYGMY
Senator TurpIe Enjoys Himself at The ES-
pense Of Senators Sherman and Lodge.
HELPLESS INERTIA AFFECTS SHERMAN.
The Bill TO Abolish Compulsory Pilot
age Taken Up md discussed ut
Length, Mr. Cummings Opposes
the Ppssngc of the Hyessure-Mr,
chamberlain Az u Lobbyist.

Washington, April S.-Senator Turpie,
who has achieved quite reputation in
the Senate for his skill In clothing the
snost singing sarcasms in picturesque
language, gave an illustration of his
powers in that lien to-day. affording an
hour and q half's entertainment to his
brother Senators and no a, large audi
ence in the galleries. The speech was
made In suppor. of the joint resolution
introduced on the 1st of April by Mr..
Call, proposing intervention in the war
now being prosecuted in Cuba. The OBJ
3ects of Mr.. Turpie's invective was not
so much General Weyler and the Span
Ssh Government as the chairman of the
Committee on Foreign RELATIONSHIPS.
Sherman-and the junior Senator from
Maasachusetts-,Mr. Lodge. He ascribed
TO Mr.. Sherman helpless Inertia, delay
and. Irrational obstruction. and spoke of
his taking refuge in the crypt OF the
conference committee. verv glad to be
cid of his, former action.
MIR. Lodge was portrayed by him
as belonging to the jingo class OF ex-
eremists, and as being singularly gifted
with the power to cloth an interesting
ana exciting subject with all the dull
ness of time worn commonplace. He
drew an amusing sketch of the con-
troversy between Mr.. Lodge and the
Spanish Minister. and said that he had
Mr. Lodge would go into the fray fully
armed and with visor down. but in
Ftead of that Mr.. Lodge had regaled
himself on puffs, mesa puffs. Mr.. Turpie
closed his sarcastic remarks on Mr.
Lodgs by thei quotations that 'Pygmies
are pySmiei SIM, though perched on
Alps"
After the above described personal
reference TO Sherman and Lodge, Mr..
iurpie said 1t was impossible to con-
reive Of "A more wholly unlegisative
legislative proceedings more wholly
abnormal proceeding-than the action
<akcn by the chairman of the Commit
Zee on Foreign Relations"
There could not be Il more unfortunate
disposition of that matter than that
which II suffered from the action the
snaction and the reactio, (f the honor
ary chairman OF the Committee on For
eign Relations.
Mr. Turpie contlastcd the to!nt reso-
Sution introduced by Mr.. Call with the
concurrent resolutions reported from the
Conference Committee. There was in
thc former no double cntendre, as there
was in the other. 1t contained plain
statement of the necessity of interposi-
zion.
In the third resolution of the confer
~nce report intervention" was men
<ioned twice. but II did say on which
eide the United States should intervene
For his own part, he was in favor of
intervening on the side of Cuban free
dom, and for the sake of freedom and
independence; and for no other reason
or cause. He had listened 10 twenty or
thirty addresses by the junior Senator
from Massachusetts and ito remarks
OH several occasions by the Senator
from Ohio. but all that he had been able
TO gather out of them was that there
was war in Cuba and that the Cuban
question was great question. G.augh-
terO The Senatc had heard nothing
from the chairman as to the territory i'm
the hands of the Cubans. That Senator
seemed to be as much afraid of an
coaching that territory as General
Weylcr was lie had mot even looked
over the fence" U.aughter1 He NIr.
Turpie) proposed to take n fair and i'm
partial view of that territory and its
condition. He then proceeded to draw
sketch of the Cuban Government and
of the operation of the forces on either
side.
lie had kept tally. he said of the
Valds made by the Spanish troops upon
country stores IN the eastern provinces
OF thd Island, the portion held by the
insurgents. And he argued that the yerv
existence of country stonss in that re-
zion meant that there were no thieves
ehere or that the thieves had been over
Tawed or punished. 1t meant that there
were no burglars, no robbers in that
segion. or that they had been overawed
or punished. lie reminded the Senate
that about four weeks ago. the Captain
General of Cuba made a pause IN his
campaign, mot so long a pause" he ad-
ded, "as the chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations made in his
tLaughteD. General Weyler had made
a pause and has issued proclamat ton
offering amnesty 10 the priests who are
within the revolutionary lines He ar
6ued froml this that, wnere there priests
there were churches. and where there
were churches there were people. But
not q priest had accepted the offer. He
spoke of the Weyler compaign as being
an imitation of that OF the Duke of
SAlva, In the Netherlands. and said that
the result would be the same. The Meth
erlands had been lost to Spain and Cupa
would be lost to Spain NAY" he ex-
claimed. Cuba is lost to Spain-irrevo-
rably lost There IS no more chance on
che face OF things to-day for the re-estab-
tishment of the Spanish Government in
the Island of Cuba than there is for the
ve-establishment of the French domain
IN San Domingo. He added that the
Cuban Republic of Cuba was an organ
tzed body: that 1t had country; that
IT had maintained war for twelve years,
and that 1t had earned fo. itself the
right and the title to recognition as bel
aigerents. Ho quoted from the Earl of
Chatham's speech to the Lords OF Great