The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-18
ON THE CUBAN RESOLUTION
,SENATOR MORGAN OF -4LABAMA
CONTINUED HIS SPEECH.

Authorities-He Read Communications
Charging Barbarities by Spanish Troops.
Washington, March 17.-Mr. Morgan,
dem., of Alabama, a member of the
committee on foreign relations, contin-
ued the speech begun by him yesterday
in the senate in favor of the Cuban res
olutions. He began by speaking OF the
super-sensitiveness of Spain because
she felt the sand sliding from under her
feet while the "gem of the Antilles
was passing out of her grasp. SPAIN
had sucked the orange well nigh dry
until it's sweetness was about all gone.
Mr.. Morgan spoke of the ''furtive allu-
sion to sugar" in the paper of the Span
ish minister made public yesterday and
said that it was intended to sweeten the
invocation for American sympathy and
aid to crush the rebellion. He sent to
the clerks desk and had read what he
called the Spanish minister's "diatribe
against the senate and senators" He
spoke of Senior de Lone as ''a super
cilious foreign minister" and said that
it was high time for the house and the
senate to close their doors against such
attempts to influence them. This was
the first time, he said, when the foreign
representative of monarchy could call
in question the members of these bod
les for words uttered in debate.
Senior de Lome's statement to the
press having been read by the clerk,
Mr. Morgan resumed his speech. He
spoke of the censorship of the cable be-
tween Cuba and America by the Span
ish authorities, and said that, so far as
the mails We're concerned, he had been
informed yesterday by a Catholic priest
who knew, perfectly WELL both Spain
and Cuba, that the mails between Cuba
and the United States were constantly
opened and their contents examined
1t was perfectly well known, Mr. Nor
gan added that all the telegraphic in
formation from Cuba was doctored, un-
less it happened to be favorable to the
Spanish cause. He had lost respect for
a minister who undertook to misquote
a senator as the Spanish minister had
misquoted him, and he read from the
Congressional Record the statement
which he (Mr. Morgan) had made in
the senate, and which he said the Span
ish minister had misquoted.
Mr.. Morgan said that the facts cited
in that speech stood confessed by Spain
through the lips of her own minister,
who had evaded the statements and
left them unanswered. He dissented
from the opinion that a foreign minis
try had the right to resort to the press
for the purpose of affecting any mat
ter pending in congress or in respect to
any policy of the United States, which
he might consider to be offensive or in
furious to his country. He character
lied Senior de Lome's statement to the
press as a fragrant abuse of privilege" :"
1t was time, he added, that the diplo-
matte affairs of the United States were
withdrawn from public tinkering and
tampering. Mr.. Morgan read the Incl
dent of Jefferson and the French minis
ter, Sevet, and exclaimed passionately:
''Would to God that we had somebody
here now who had a just conception of
the constitutional rights of the differ
ent parts of this government"
81 have not asked" he continued, "for
the dismissal of this minister. Let him
stay; but l have a right to claim the
protection of the constitution against
any assault that may be made upon my
votes or speeches. I am not going to
subordinate myself quietly to any man
in the world, but more especially to a
foreign minister whose country is now
a subject of serious examination in the
councils of the senate
Mr. Hale stated that the chairman of
the committee on foreign relations, Mr..
Sherman, had said that Mr.. de LONE
had a perfect right to defend his gov
ernment and people.
Mr.. Morgan said that he did not agree
with Mr. Sherman on that point. He
would now place against Mr.. de Lome's
statement that of Mr.. Quesada, the
representative of the Cuban republic
Mr. Morgan had the clerk read Mr..
Quesada's letter to a Washington pa
per describing several horrible atroci-
ties alleged to be perpetrated in Cuba
during the last rebellion in which Gen
eral Weyler is reported as having had
ladies stripped naked, whipped and
given up to the lust of his troops.
The reading was interrupted by Mr..
Chandler on the ground that the state
ments were too indecent for public re-
hearsal, but Mr.. Hale insisted that the
reading should he proceeded with to
show how utterly unworthy of credit
its statements were.
MIR. Morgan read other communica-
tions charging barbarities by the Span
ish troops during the last rebellion, also
an interview with General Daniel E..
Sickels, who was at that time minister
to Spain-recently published in the New
York Sun Mr.. Morgan maintained
that a state of war existed in Cuba.
The line of action to take was to de-
clare that open war existed in Cuba and
that the laws of war should apply to
it. If neither party to the struggle in
Cuba could defend the rights and prop
erty of Americans citizen in Cuba who
were there then he proposed that the
government should intervene to pro-
tect them.
When the American people and con-
gress had expressed their opinion in
a way which was practically unani-
nous if the president did not concur
as he CIr. Morgan) believed he would,
the president would simply have to re-
sumo the responsibility. He did not
want to give Spain an apparent ground
for criticism, but if that fanatic and
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