The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-10

AlT. Hale SAID the spanish minister
Senior Dupuy de LONE, had made a state
ment as TO the Inaccurate representa-
! tons against Spain. 1t was not surpris-
that, in view of the attacks on Spain
that the minister had done this, httlngly
and automatically.
Mr.. Hale sent the Spanish minister's
! statement to the clerks desk to be
read. 1t had hardly been begun when
Senator Davis of Minnesota, arose and
| interrupted.
4 object said Mr.. Davis. Ito the
! reading of any communication coming
from the representative of foreign
! country on any matter, transmitted TO
! congress through such channels and re-
| hecting upon members of this body
! Immediately there was a stir on the
floor and galleries. Mr.. Hale protested
against such objection. There was
nothing
PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE
/ to senators in the Spanish minister's
! statement. 1t was not an attack on the
/ senate, but was couched with a nicely
! of Difference to senators.
! Mr.. Mitchell of oregon, asked if it was
not an invariable RUE that foreign min
! listers credited to this country should not
/ publicly discuss political questions relat-
! ing to the affairs of the United States.
There were points OF order from var
/ iouS quarters and many senators were on
their feet seeking to gain recognition.
! The vice-president announced the rule,
! that in case of objection to reading
! communication the senate must decide
! by vote as to receiving it.
Mr.. Teller of Colorado said the objec-
! ton TO the minister's statement was not
! based on its offensiveness to the senate,
/ but TO the established rule that any COM
! munication from a foreign minister must
! be submitted through the channels OF the
J state department.
I Mr.. Morgan made a point of order
| against proceeding with the ministers
statement.
Mr.. Hale had stood calmly during the
| storm of protests. He said it was
MOST REMARKABLE FACT
! that senators would not hear this state
! ment of facts.
Mr. Frye suggested that Mr. Davis
Withdraw his polnthof order and allow
/ the paper TO be read, and that in reply
/ Post of a prominent Cuban sec
rotary of legation in Washington
/ be read. This suggestion TO also
! give the Cuban side a hearing was
! received with a demons tration by the
/ galleries, so pronounced that Vice-Presi-
dent Stevenson warned the spectators.
At > O'clock the unfinished business,
/ the Dupont election case was temporarily
/ laid aside. Mr.. Sherman, chairman of the
! foreign relations committee gave notice
that he would insist on action
When the Spanish minister's communi-
1 cation had been read Morgan asked that
4 the reply of the Cuban secretary OF the
! legation be read, but Mr.. Hale declined,
saying it could be read in the tlrle OF
4 some other senator. Continuing, Mr.. Hale
/ sent to the desk and had read com
/ munication to the New York World
| from DR. William Shaw Bowen, aScCm-
muniCation not concocted IN the oIe'ths
! of the insurrection," but written by
I man compelled to tell. the truth IN
( newspaper whose sYmpathies we're with
the Insurgents, but which was LToad
| enough
TO PRINT BOTH SIDES.
The extract referred to General S'Eey-
Ter as a greatly traduced man VINO
had been Systematically attacked by
! the enemies of the Spanish cause. Ihls
. communication, extracted from an I'M
/ willing witness" Mr. Hale said he would
place against anything written by Gu
bans in this city.
He also rea& from current news dis
patches of the burning by the insurgents
of thirteen towns and the destruction OF
tobacco, and of the inhabitants wandering
helpless and starving through the coun-
Srhese.9 said he, ARE the methods
adopted TO defeat Spain.
Here he continued, ARE the eXalting
details in newspapers which sympathize
with the insurgents. Liberty does not
fight its battles in that way. Freedom
often springs from prison bars, from
burning lips, aye, from its own ashes,
hut not such horror and confiagration and
devils work. The heart stirred by the
story of Bunker Hill turns with loathing
from such tales as these. 1t is not war,
torch, murder and outrage. 1t is the
STROKE OF sAVAGERY.
I will never vote to give aid and com
fort to leaders whose exploits are thus
chronicled"
There is another side" Mr.. Hale was
proceeding to say. when Senator Sherman
interrupted him and asked how long we
were to allow this state of affairs to con-
tinue.
''That." replied Mr.. Hale, SIS the same
question which was put to the diplomats
( of Europe during the war of the rebellion.
Whenever our arms sustained a reverse
they were asked whether that did not
disclose a state of war That was the
great burden which rested most heavily
on those then at the head of our affairs
That question gave stoop TO the tall
shoulders OF Lincoln, it weighed most
anXiously upon the able Seward and
broke down the lion-hearted Stanton. The
answer to it is to be found in the
But" interpoSed Mr.. Sherman, Spain,
England and France had acknowledged
the belligerency of the confederacy be-
fore a single battle was fought in Ian
these resolutions"
Il am not speaking of belligerency," re-
piled Mr.. Hale, but of independence.
SEWARD'S ANSWER
was that the United States was engaged
in one of the most herculean tasks in the
L =,
at the court of st. James, and our min
lister to France. were instructed to say
that the United States would suppress
the rebellion. but in a way to be selected
by us, and that no foreign power would
be allowed TO interfere
Mr. Hale said he depored the aggres-
sive spirit of the past year; the desire to
ncite trouble, the building up of instru-
nlents of war, instead Of those of peace;
the turning aside from the POUCH and
the taking up of the sword-thfs was
mlitarism. There was but one result
when militarism took possession of a
great people. Ths arts of peace disap-
peared and in their place come vast ar
mament and the dominion of some great
military chieftain. This was the growing
spirit of the day in this country
Out Of Il all, however Mr.. Hale said
he felt that the good sense of the Ameri-
can people would assert itself, bringing
peace rather than war.
Mr.. Hale closed at o'clock.
Mr. Mills urged Mr. Sherman not to
endeavor to reach a vote today as sew
eral senators desired to be heard Mr.
Sherman yielded 10 the suggestion ard
the Cuban resolutions went over.
Mr.. Turpie CDen1 Ind, was then re-
cognized for an argument against the
claim of Mr.. Dupont to a seat in the
senate from Delaware.
The senator had not concluded when at
4S5 o'clock the senate held a brief ex-
ecutive session and soon thereafter adj