Morris tribune., 1896-12-16
MORGAN ON CUBA
The Alabama Senator Fires a
Few Oratorical Broadsides
at Spain.
IF War Is Necessary to Make
Spain Let Go We Should
Not Hesitate.
Mr.. Allen Wants an Investiga-
ton of Election Ex-
penses.


the opening of the senate. In the alb
sence eff the vice president, Mr.. Frye
occupied the chair.
Mr. Hale rep, Me- reported the
pension appropriation bill without
amendments of any kind, and gave
notice that he would call it mp in the
morning.
The house concurrent resolution fol
a holiday adjournment from Dec. % to
Jan. 5 was reported favorably and
agreed to.
| Use of Money in Elections.
Something of STIR was occasioned
when Mr. Allen Pop, Neb.) offered a
resolution for a committee of nine SEN
ators ION the use of money in cleo
tions.' The resolution directs that the
| committee shall thoroughly investi-
gate the extent to which money, if any,
was used, in connection with the recent
! presidential election, either in promot-
ing the nominations, or influencing in
tial electors, and to ind glre whether
any such expenditures were excessive,
illegitimate, corrupt or unlawful, and
especially to inquire and ascertain to
what extent for such purposes the own
ers of silver mines, gold mines, the
bankers, the manufacturers, the rail-
road or other corporations and million
aires of all classes made contributions,
if any were made by persons and cor
porations, residing abroad.
The resolution further empowers the
proposed committee to send for persons
and papers, and directs report by the
first Monday Of December, 1897.
Morgan Speaks on Cuba.
Mr.. Palmer Dem, Ills.) called up
one of the pension bills, heretofore We
toed by the president but yielded to
Mr.. Morgan for speech on Cuba. Mr..
Morgan said:
II will confine my remarks to COM
ments upon the facts stated in TIE re-
cent annual message of the president,
and the report of the secretary Of state.
1 am not ableto discover that the presi
dent has made any specific recommen-
dation or indication as to any action he
deems it proper or expedient for con-
gress to take with reference to Spain
or Cuba nor that he has indicated any
course, except still patient waiting,
that the executive proposes to take.
Congress, thus left to its own initia-
tive. must assume its own response
bility in a matter of the most
serious gravity. Congress must give
to the statements of the
president unhesitating acceptance as to
matters that were committed by the
constitution to his especial charge.
When he undertakes to state the facts
that affect our relations with other
powers, we must accept those facts un-
less the disproof of them is overpower-
ing. This message is therefore of
The Most Impressive Importance
as a statement of the leading facts and
conclusions that bear upon our duties
in respect to the conflict of arms which
has ragged for over two years in the
island of Cuba, and it has the support
of nearly unanimous American belief.
have not heard that Spain controverts
any statement Of the president in his
message. The evidence that comes
from private sources relative to the
condition of Cuba, and the horrors of
persecution, rapine and determination
visited upon the people of Cuba, admits
of no doubt as to its credibility. Yet
it presents pictures so incredibly in
human and so disgraceful to the civil
ization of this age, that it stuns the
mina into disbelief that such things
can be true. !"
AS Mr. Morgan spoke, the galleries
filed and his words were followed with
close attention by the senators and tLe
large number of spectators.
Mr. Morgan went on to speak of the
trying situation, which required prompt
action to save thousands of innocent
people from cruel and deliberate butch.
cry.
The wholesale massacres of SPAIN
was no surprise to the senator, who had
anticipated it.
IF war with the United States isl
necessary to reconcile the Spanish PEG.
pie to the loss of Cuba by foreign con.
quest, +" said Mr. Morgan, 1--WE shall be
compelled to meet that emergency. I'll
the destruction of Cuba is enough tC
satisfy the popular sentiment of re.
venge, we can avoid war with Spain
by remaining inactive, while our own
people are being ruined or slaughtered
along with the Cubans. If we mean tc |
take any action towards stopping this
war of humiliation and determination,
we have no time to lose.
Mr. Morgan spoke of the resolution
of congress at the last session which he
said gave to the president the choice OF
concurring with, the policy Of congress,
or delaying. The president chose de.
lay. The war has continued, said Mr..
Morgan, until it has reached the final
and desperate stage Of war of devas.
tation and determination, with the
people of Cuba as a prey to those who
have set aside the usual honorable !
usages of warfare, and have become
robbers, cut throats, assassins, ravish. |
ers and pirates.
Mr. Morgan closed his Cuban speech
at 2:10 p. M, and the senate then
agreed to his resolution calling for in.
form fiou nm tha Gam pat ifo,. aud ofEa,