The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-09


cannot conquer America: You may raise
armies; you may make campaigns: you
may even win battles, you can never
subdue the spirit of liberty in that peo-
ple.''
And Mr.. Turpie added: at Is the spi-
rit of liberty that Is abroad in Cuba.
and no flesh and blood nor the gates of
hell can prevail against It,"
Mr.. Turpie recalled and ridiculed the
scene In the Senate. when Mr.. Lodge
began and concluded his personal expla-
nation In reference to the newspaper
statement Of the Spanish minister. He
had supposed that It was such serious
business that there would have to be
physical adjustment of 1t. But when
| the junior Senator from Massachusetts
returned to the chamber on the self
same day to explain his explanation and
to expound and explore his explanation,
he began TO see diminution in the size
and bulk of the Cuban question and 10
conceive that there would b a duel be-
tween the Spanish minister and the dis
tinguished junior senator from Massa-
chuSettS. lie had supposed there was
| nothing left to be done, but select sec
onds. and to make choice of weapons
Al friend had said to him, however, that
the suggestion was premature, and there
| would be no duel. He had felt the deem
est solicitude that the champion of the
senatorial privilege should not enter into
the lists without being fully armed and
tais visor down and his lance in rest.
He was anxious that the Senatorial
champion should not be mistaken for p
mere neophyte, a Socialist, a mere har-
| iequin, with sword Of leather and dag
ger of Lath. Uaughter,) But his friend
| 3ad told him that there would be nn
| fight
His friend had said that all the trou-
PIE came from the inordinate rondness
fnts f,n,,
certain KIND OF confectionery; not pastry
nor ice cream. nor tutti frutti, but puffs.
mere puffs, and that when the Junior
senator from Massachusetts lad got
inns confectionery he retired TO the room
Oh the Committee on Foreign Relations
and regaled himself on 1t. His friends
had suggested that that would be the
last or him-"for what is Pecuba. Pecu-
ba TO him; or he to Pecuba?" Gaugh-
| ter)
The Spanish Minister, MIR. Turpie.
Went on to say. had been guilty of a
breach of one of the conventionalties
OF the diplomatic corps, but he had also
neen guilty OF another indscretion--an
error In appraisement-what was called
IN the custom house an undervaluation
QLaughter) The Spanish Minister had
forgotten that the Junior Senator from
| massachusetts had been Il life lonp
| member OF the Committee on Foreign
relations. and that he belonged to the
lingo high school. uaughter) He had
iorsot'cn the lines OF the epic poet of
his own Countrywide great poet of An
daiusia. He tMr. Turpie) had the lines
| here in the original Spanish, and as II
had become the fashion to put Spanish
| INTO The Record. he would take the
occasion of putting in these lines;
| Pygmies though puffed and perched
on Alps, are pygmies STILL" daughter
| IN hfc
Gus strain. Mr. Turpie expressed the
nope that Congress would give to the
suffering people of Cula that consid
Grafton which patriotism, love of lib
erty and love of free republics de-
manded. (Applause.)
| At the close of this speech the Joint
resolution went over without action and
the rest of the day was taken up with
] the Indian appropriation bill. Before
reaching final vote on it the Senate.
at sos o'clock, adjourned until to-mor.
row.
| House.-The House spent two hours
to-day in roll calls upon questions re-
lating TO the bill to make the metric.
system of weights and measures the legal
| system OF the Omitted States after jan
| uary, 1901. and finally Il was recon-
mended to the Committee on Coinage.
Weishts and Measures The first vote
| was on motion TO advance the bin to
third reading. That was agreed TO.
| motion was made TO reconsider and to
| lay that motion on the table the ordi-
| nary parliamentary device to clinch ac-
| ton upon measure followed and the
| House refused-l32 to Ito lay the mo-
| ton to reconsider on the table. The mo-
! tion to reconsider was then agreed to
| l42 to 99-whereupon the bill was sent
| back TO the committee.
| The bill to repeal the compulsory pilot
age system still in force in nine Southern
States so far as 1t affects sailing YES
| sells in the coastwlse trade, was then
| taken up and It's consideration begun un-
| der an agreement 10 take a vote at >
O'Clock tomorrow. The bill was advo-
Gated by Messrs Payne and Simpkns,
| OF Massachusetts. anG opposed by
Messrs. Miner (Rep) of Wisconsin, and
Cummings Dem). OF New York
The conference report on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill was agreed to.
| When the bill to abolish compulsory
pilotage was taken up Mr. Payne eX-
piained the intent and scope of the bill.
| The original law relating to pilots. he
said. had been passed in 1889. There
had been no change In this law SO far as
cerned. though several States had done
away with this unjust discrimination
against sailing vessels He read from
a table giving the estimated pilotage re-
ceipts from tonnage of vessels engaged
in the foreign trade at eighteen ports
in the nine States which would be af-
fected by the BILL showing that In the
year ended June 30. 1895. they were $780,
Il