The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17
"SP4xy has NO MERCY
Senator Morgan Makes an appeal for
the Ctb0ns,

WASHINGTON, D. c.. March 16-In
the Senate to-day Elkins (R.) of West Vir-
ginis offered a resolution ipstructing the
Committee ON Foreign Relations to report
TO the Senate before vote is taken set
ting forth whether or not there exists
state of war in Cuba; if so, how long it has
existed; the number of men and officers
engaged on each side; whether or not the
insurgents have a constitution and organ
lied government; what cities and towns,
inland and on the seacoast, they occupy
and what effect the passage of the resolu-
tions would have on the insurgents, the
Spanish Government and the United
States.
The resolution went over until to-mor-
row.
The conference report on the Cuban
belligerency resolutions was taken up and
Morgan CD of Alabama, member of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, ad-
dressed the Senate in favor of the adoption
of the report.
Morgan went through and gave brief
resume from pile of petitions and me-
MORALS from all parts of the country in
favor of the independence of Cuba. They
came, he said, from almost every county
in the United States and represented a
wide-reaching range of petitioners.
Hale (R.) of Maine remarked that all
Senators were familiar with the methods
of which most of the petitions presented
to Congress were prepared. He did not
know whether it was so in this case, but
he presumed that all these petitions were
under printed heading, sent out from a
single source. The spontaneity of the
petitions came, not from the country, but
from New York and Washington.
Morgan made some deprecatory remarks
about the business, conservative and prop
erty-owning men who wanted to prevent
any legislation that might cost them a
little money or cause little disturb
ance of business relations. He went
ON to say that the Committee on
Foreign Relations had not supposed that
il was dealing improperly with that great
mass of petitions. His object was, he
said. to show the amount of pressure that
had been brought to bear on the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations to show how con-
servatiye and careful that committee had
been.
Hale made an inquiry about the paper
from the Spanish Minister to which Sher-
man had "unwar1ly" referred to the other
dav. and he asked why the Committee on
Foreign Relations had not reported the fact
Of that paper to the Senate.
Morgan explained that the paper had
been communicated by the Spanish Minis
fer to Mr.. Olney, and that Mr.. Olney
had concluded it to be his duty TO send it
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
If had not been sent in any form. 1t was
the original paper that had been sent, and
II was returned to the Secretary Of State.
MORGAN said that he had written to the
Secretary for a copy of the paper, and had
been informed that Mr.. Olnev would con-
suit the Minister about it. The Minister
had piven his consent, and copy of the
paner had been sent to him (Morgan), and
he would now read it. with comments to
the Senate.
Hale remarked that he would be glad
even al this late date to have 1T brought De-
fore the Senate. Morgan then began to
read the paper from the Spanish Minister
by sentences and to comment upon 1t as ne
went along. When he came to the emu OIL
it he said that that was all of that 'mIracu-
lous and mysterious paper 1t was
mere petition for delay and the Senate had
granted that delay. The paper, ne salo,
was dated the 18th of January, 1896. IL
contained dispatch from General Campos
stating that the so-called Cuban Govern
ment had no fixed residence, and that 1t
hardly knew where it wandered ABOUT.
Morgan commented upon that
THAT is all true" he said, mo doubt.