Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-21
CUBA'S THREE CHAMPIONS Senators Morgan, Cameron and Lodge Waxed Eloquent IN BEHALF OF HER FREEDOM Senator Morgan Was Unable to Finish His
 Great Speech MIR. HOAR LOOKS AFTER OUR GIRLS His Amendment to Regulate Their Mar riages With Foreigners Passed by the
 Senate-McKinley Got Free
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IN BEHALF OF HER FREEDOM
AR. HoAR LOOKS AFTER OUR GIRLS

Washington Feb. 20.-The senate to- day took up the bill that was before it 1 yesterday to regulate marriage in the l District of Columbia. An amendment was offered by MT. Hoar forbidding the | issue of marriage licenses in cases where 1 one of the parties is an alien without a | certificate of the minister or consul of l the country of which the alien is citizen 1 stating that under the laws of that coun- | try the marriage would be valid. He | said he wanted to protect American women attractive by beauty and accom- 1 plishments, from the rapacity of for eign adventures, whether titled or un- titled
 Under the laws of some foreign coun- tries officers of the army could not con- tract a lawful marriage with an Ameri- | can girl without the assent of his own l government And under French law no person under 20 could contract lawful | marriage without the assent of his pa- | rents. MT. Hoar gave some instances or 1 American marriages being repudiated | in Germany because they were not eel. l ebrated in compliance with the law or i that country The amendment was | agreed to and the bill was passed. 1 On motion of MT. Chandler the resolu- | ton offered yesterday by Mir. Lodge in
  | over till Monday next.
 The senate then took up MT. Morgan's s Cuban concurrent resolution decidfin5 | that in the opinion of congress condi- | ton of warfare exists between the gov ernment of Spain and the government l proclaimed and for some time main- l tained by force of arms by the people of l Cuba, and the United States should 1 maintain neutrality between the con- l tending powers, according to all rights of 1 beligerents In the ports and territory or 1 the United States.
 MT. Cameron offered a substitute for | the concurrent resolution in these words: l "That the president is hereby required l to interpose his friendly offices with the l Spanish government for the recognition | of the independence of Cuba.
 There was a very full attendance or senators. and the galleries were filled by | an interested and sometimes exclLeo as semblage of men and women. The de- | bate lasted three hours and half. It was opened by MT. Call and was con l tinued by Messrs. Cameron, Lodge and l Morgan Mr Morgan was the author l of the concurrent resolution, and reported l it from the committee on foreign rela- 1 tions. Each speech in succession seenleu I to outstrip the other in patriotic fervor l and in devotion to the Cuban cause; ana | some of the speeches attracted applause l from the galleries.
 Mr Morgan opened on very conserva- 1 tive lines, but as he progressed ana as 1 he was drawn out by the inquiries or other senators he seemed to give free l scope to his real convictions and desires, and expressed himself in no douDtful or l hesitating language in favor Of taking 1 the most advanced position. lie declared his belief that Spain would not release her hold upon the throat of Cuba, and that she would rather lose the island as the result of war with the United States than yield it for price, or lose It through | the success of the instruction. At one point in his speech he exclaimed passlon- | ately that in a certain event it was our l duty" to draw the sword, lay 1t on the l table and say to Spain: "1f you want l to take 1t up, take it up" This exclamation drew down the ap- l plause of the galleries. MT Morgan was | not able to finish his speech, but will con | tinue it at the session of Monday night l the senate adjourning at 5:30 till Satur- | day, when the president pro tempore, MT l Frye, republican, of Maine, is to read | Washngton's farewell address.
 The House.
 Onmotion of MT. w. A. Stone of Penn | sylyania the house refused to concur in 1 senate amendments to the general pen 1 sion appropriation bill, and 1t was sent | to conference. The senate joint resoiu- 1 tion requiring the secretary Of agricui- | ture to purchase and distribute seeds as l in former years was reported favorably from the committee on agriculture by MT. Willis, republican, of Delaware, and he asked unanimous consent for its present consideration.
 MT. Erdman. democrat, of Pennsyl- yania, objected, and the resolution went | to the calendar.
 The Indian appropriation was taken up in committee of the whole. In 1 the general debate MT. Nelson, democrat, of Ohio, departed from the text or ms | speech in favor of the passage of pro- i tective tariff bill, in the course Of which | he had read from the clerks desk ex- | tracts from the speech of Major McK1n- | ley at the Marquette club dinner in Chi | cago February 12 Efforts by the friends 1 of other presidential candidates to head off this advertisement of the Ohio candi- l date on the floor of the house were un- :, availlng.
 When the committee of the whole l reached the paragraph in the bill pro- vidng for the pay of the five Indian in- l spectors a motion was made to reduce 1 their salaries from $3000 to $2500. That ] had been done in the last two previous | bills and the action of the Indian com | mittee in fixing the figure named in | the statute establishing the offices met
 {, with objection on both sides of the cham
 ber The motion to reduce the salaries
 was made by MT Dockery and supported
 | by Messrs. Cannon, republican, of Illi- | nois and Hemingway, republican. of In
 diana, members of the appropriations
 | committee, and by MT. Dingley, chair 1 man of the committee on ways and means. The latter gentleman earnestly
 ! appealed to the committee of the whole | not to follow the Indian committee in it's policy of raising salaries, and was an- ! swered by MT. Crisp, who stated that the | motion to reduce the salaries of Indian ] inspectors was as unjustifiable as would
 l be one to reduce the salary of the gen. , tleman from Maine and compel him to ac- cept the reduced salary in lieu of the one fixed by law. The Indian committees
 l republican, of Illinois. and Mir. Sherman,
 1 republican. of New York, chairman, and
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