The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-24
MIR. HAL-E EXPECTS A BATTLE
ROYAL WHEN THE SENATE
RECONVENES.
OPPOSITION is PREPARED.
READY TO TAKE UP THE CAMERON
RESOLUTION WITHOUT ANY
DELAY.
ooUNTRY's SENTIMENT CHANGING
According to the Maine Senator the
Demand of the Nation Is for
Peace.


Hale has received a letter from Sena-
tor Hoar, who is absent from the city
announcing his opposition to the Gu
ban resolutions, and asking Senator
Hale to pair him in any way that will
defeat, delay or bring to confusion"
the resolutions reported from the COM
mittee on foreign relations. Senator
Hale, who Is expected to lead the OPP
position to the Cuban resolutions, in
the senate, is preparing for the conflict
which he expects to follow the holiday
recess. 1t is the general understand
ing that the question will be one Of the
Of congress, and it is looked forward
to as a battle royal.
1.-THE advocates Of the resolutions, .
said the Maine senator today, "were at
first inclined to claim a tweIthirds ma
jority. l doubt whether they feel 80
sanguine now, and I am sure they
would not if they knew how rapidly the
conservative sentiment in the senate is
growing
II was sorry to see," the senator con-
tinued, that I had been quoted as
should be able to defeat the resolution
on a vote. I would not want to claim
that result at the present time, but we
hope for it in the end. Indeed, I am
receiving assurances from influential
senators every day of sympathy with
the movement in opposition to the reso-
tuition, and I believe the sentiment in
the country is rapidly veering that
way. OF course there are meetings
and resolutions on the other side, but
one can gather men together in advo-
cacy of any cause and get signatures
to almost any kind Of petition. My
contention is that the business men
and thinking men Of the country are
opposed to amy step which Is likely to
plunge the country into war. In my
own state, for instance, there is only
one prominent newspaper which advo-
Gates the course advised by the senate
committee on foreign relations.
1--WE have just gone through a cam
paign in which we have promised
peace to the country. Is it consistent
to present the incoming administration
with a war on the Threshold of it's ex-
Ill l1ICiC ID Oil O1tOACHII cUlC
condition Of affairs in Cuba, but I be-
,lieve the reports are exaggerated. At
any rate it is true that however cruel
the conduct of the Spaniards, it finds
it's counterpart in the course Of the
Cubans. 1t is their way of fighting
they are different from us. From
whatever. standpoint the question is
viewed, there is. no excuse IN reason
for the United States TO interfere in
this insurrection. l believe the senate
is rapidly coming to realize this and
I am, therefore, confident of success in
the end"
1T has been intimate~,'' suggested
the Associated Press reporter with
whom Senator Hale was talking, "that
you will filibuster to defeat the Cam
eron resolution in the senate
mo truth whatever in that" he re-
sponded. TT will not be necessary
that we should do SO. The question
raised by the committee is one Of vast
magnitude, and it will excite much de-
bate. The question of the respective
prerogatives of the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government,
which Mr.. Olney's letter has raised, Is
calculated in itself to set the lawyers
talking at one another, and there is
no telling how much time may be con-
sumed on this point. Hence, I say that
even if the opponents of the resolution
desired to delay-which they do not
they would not have to resort to ex-
traneous methods to secure it. 1t is.
above all, foreign from our intentions
to attempt to use the appropriation
bills to accomplish the postponement
of the Cuban question. We are will
ing that this subject should be brought
up promptly, and are content to use
only legitimate weapons in our war
fare against it."