The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-03-21
FlFTY.FouRTH CONGRESS.
UiEst sessIon.l
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, March ia- Senate bill
TO enable the people Of New Mexico to
form u constitution aud state govern.
ment and to be admitted into the Union
as state, was reported from the com.
mlttee on territories and placed on the
calendar:
a bill to purchase the portraits Of
Chief Justices Marshall, Taney. Chase
and Waite, was introduced by Mr.. Sher-
man rep, o. and referred.
On motion of Mr.. Harris (dem..
Tenn. house bill to authorize the con.
struetion of bridge across the Ten.
nessee river at Knoxville, Tenn, was
taken from the calendar and passed.
The conference report on the Cuban
belligereucy resolution was then taken
mp.
Mr.. Stewart pop, Nev.) addressed
the senate in support of the resolu.
ton. II was a reproaeh to the Amer
lean people that they had stood by so
long, he SAID, and witnessed the vain
attempt of Spain to govern Cuba. He
compared the case of Spain In Cuba
with that of England in Egypt, and
said that the English policy in Egypt
was being extended to this hemisphere.
II Spain held Cuba she would hold her
as she had done for the last 100 years,
with an army, and would increase the
Cuban debt and enslave the people.
The heart OF every patriot in the United
States went out to Cuba.
Should the senate. Mr.. Stewart
asked, answer the demand of the
American people, and extend the SYM
pathy in the most effective way; or
should II spend its time quibbling
about the fact whether there was war
in Cuba. He hoped to have action and
speedy action, and If it did not bring
results, let the senate pass joint reso-
luton and throw the responsibility on
the executive.
When Mr.. Stewart took his seat aud
no other senator sought the floor the
vice-president asked whether the SEN
ate was ready for the question; and he
stated the question to be on agreeing
to the conference report.
Then Mr.. Gray dem, Del), one OF
the members of the committee on for.
eign relations, rose and said that he
wished to state briefly the reasons
which compelled him to withhold his
assent from the conference report. II
was easy to say, Mr.. Gray remarked
that the resolutions of the two houses
were substantially the same. but
In matter Of this kind, words
were things It would be vain
to attempt to disguise the feel
ing of sympathy that occupied
the breast OF every true American in
regard to that struggle. And yet the
government Of the United States, as in
duty hound, has been strictly observ'
ing It's duties toward the friendly gov
ernment Of Spain. 1t had strictly
enforced the neutrality laws. II had
suppressed all aid in the shape
of military expeditions, and had
gone to the very verge of its interna
tional obligations in protecting Spair
from the effects of that widespread,
sympathy. That feeling had founc
proper, respectful and courteous ex
preston In the resolutions passed b,
the senate. However much Spail
might be irritated by that action, sh,
had no right, in any international poin
of view, TO find fault with, or to call L
account the government of the Unite'
States for that expression of the opin
ion of its people.
Mr. Gray argued that there was nj
reason why the senate should accep
the house resolutions after its own res
olutions being contemptuously swep
aside. He thought that there wa
grave objection to the language of th
house resolution. 1t did not put tn
attitude OF congress where II ought T.
be put as correctly as the senate res
olution did.