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MORE TALK FOR CUBA
Senator Morgan Makes Speech
on the Subject.
PRONOUNCES In FAVOR OF OPEN WAR,
Congressman Woodman's Resolution In
Favor OF Observation-Disclosures Allen
Seeks Investigation of Use of
Money In Elections.

Seeks Investigation OF Use of
Money In Elections.
Washington, Dec. 16.-In the absence
Of the vice president Senator Frye
(rep., Me.) presided at the opening of
Tuesdays session. Prayer was offered
by Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage.
The credentials of Edmund Winston
Pettus, as senator from the state of
Alabama to succeed Senator Pugh,
were presented by Senator Morgan
(dem., Ala.) and placed on file.
The concurrent resolution for the
holiday recess from Tuesday, Deceni-
Der 20, to Tuesday, January s, was re-
ported back from the committee on ap-
preparations and agreed to. The pen
sion appropriation bill was reported
back from the same committee and
Senator Hale (rep., Me.) gave notice
that he would call it up Wednesday.
Wants the Election Investigated.
Senator Allen (pop., Neb.} offered a
resolution for the appointment by the
senate of committee of nine senators
on the use of money in elections, with
instructions to investigate thoroughly
the extent, If any, in connection with
the recent presidential election, either
In promoting the nomination or influ-
presidential electors and to inquire
whether or not such expenditures were
excessive, illegitimate, corrupt or un-
lawful; and especially to inquire into
and ascertain to what extent, for such
purposes, the owners of silver mines,
gold mines, the bankers, the .mnnufac-
turers, the railroads or other corpora
lions or millionaires of all classes made
contributions; and what contributions,
If any, were made by persons and cor
porations residing abroad, end to re-
port to the senate all the facts, whether
or not, in the opinion of the committee,
eny legislation of congress is expedien.
and necessary to lessen or to prevent
the use of moneys in the elections. The
committee is to sit during the present
session of congress and until the first
Monday. of December, 1897.
Senator Morgan's Hot Talk on Cuba.
The resolution offered by Senator
Morgan (dem., Ala.) requesting the
president to furnish copies of papers
relating to the condition of affairs in
Cuba, particularly as to the Competitor
case, was taken up, and Senator Morgan
addressed the senate on the subject.
In commenting upon the presidents mes
sage Senator Morgan said that 1t was a
marked feature in 1t that the president as
stunned that the issue between Cuba and
spain was either independence or extermi-
nation. The president had warned Spain
that the time for decisive action was near
at hand, and If he should now say that
the time had arrived the American people
would sustain him. American citizens of
Cuba had rights under the law of nations
which the courts of the United States
and OF all neutral countries would protect
and enforce, even in despite of opposition
from the president, II he should oppose
them. The United States government
would be in the most humiliating state Of
1nnocuous desuetude" If it extended no
helping hand to the sufferers in Cuba and
e 1t refused to forbid further devasta-
ton and death which cruel government
was now inflicting.
Favors Open Warfare.
Senator Morgan went on to discuss the
case OF American citizens sentenced to
death In Cuba on account of their con-
nection with the Competitor and spoke
OF the United States standing by and wit
Messing that tragedy because interference
tain business interests. If the United
States were to intervene at all, he would
prefer open war. And he would vote for
resolution to that effect-his justification
being the laws of nations as he understood
them and the feeling that he entertained
tor those who lifted up their appealing
hands ana called for help against appalling
cruelty and misrule. No state in Spanish
America had ever been forced to endure
such oppression, in peace and war; as
4 m Qpp ho1 it,ct
charged to Spanish rule in Cuba The
United States, he declared. had no alterna-
tive but the single choice between the con-
tinuous repetition of the terrible evils por-
trayed by the president or base humili-
ating and cruel delay while rapine and de-
struction We're rampant in the hope that
some fortunate turn in events might re-
tieve the United States from a duty which
It owed to humanity and Christian civiliza-
ton.
At the close Of Senator Morgan's
speech, which was read from manu-
script to very small number Of SEN
ators, the resolution was agreed to.
Over the Presidents Veto.
The senate bill granting pension OF
$50 month to Nancy G. Allabach,
which was vetoed last session by the
president, was taken up on report
from the committee on pensions, made
May 0 last, recommending that the bill
pass Notwithstanding the presidents
objections, which was on the ground
that the soldier had lived for so years
nfter his discharge, and had never
claimed pension for disability, nor
had his death been caused by injuries
received in the army. The bill was
passed over the veto by vote of Al to
II.
The senate then at 2:47 p. m. went
Into executive session.
Senator Allen (pop., Neb.) introduced
bill appropriating $1,ooo,o0o for sur
veys and examinations of TIE head
waters of all the large rivers of the coun-
try-some 100 being named, beginning
with the Penobscot and extending to
the Rio Grande, to determine the cost
and location of reservoirs to be con-
structed and maintained for the storage
Of waters of these rivers and their tribu-
taries, to be used for Industrial pur-
poses.
At the end of the executive session
the senate at three p. m. adjourned UNI
til Wednesday.
Strong Cuban Resolutions
Washington, Dec. 16.-Mr. Woodmaa
(rep., HID introduced in the house Mon
day joint resolution directing the
president to act in Cuban affairs.
The resolution, after reciting Gen. Maceo,s
assassination and Spanish cruelties in
Cuba. says the president has failed tc
carry out the wishes of the people; that
the honor of the United States is at stake,
md that history gives no precedent on
which to base hope that Spanish operators