The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-20
SENATOR FROM SPAIN
Mr.. GRAY THUS ALLUDES 10 SEM
JOE HAIE DURTNG DEBd1E.
lie Opposes the Wording Of the House
RESOLUTIONS Other speakers-snlzer
and Gibson Indulge in Personalities


! character TO maintain the Intense pub
Die interest in that question. IL was 10
have been opened By AR. Mllls but that
senator was too 80 TO be present. and
the debate was opened by Mr.. Stewart.
Ie declared himself anxious for action;
said that the facts were TOO notorious TO
need further statement; favored The adoD-
ton OF The conference report, ana said
that if a concurrent resolution did not
/ produce the desired result. Congress ought
I to laas a joint resolution and place the
/ responsibility ON the President Of the
United States.
AiR. GRAY EXPLAINS.
Mr. Gray. one Of the members OF thu
. Committee on Ioreign Relations said
+ that DE wished 90 state briefly tle r.I-
sons which compelled him 90 Withhold
Dis assent from the conference report.
I lt was easy 600 say. Mr. Gray remarked,
tuat tne resolutions OF tine tWo houses
/ were substantially the same. lut in q
/ matter OF llls Kind words were thin-a.
lt would be- vain 90 attempt fo aislise
/ the feeling ot sympathy tlat occupied
the breast OF every true American ciii-
/ Zen OF that struggle. And yet the Cove
/ crument of the United States. as BOZ duty
/ bound. had been strictly observing lis
I duties towards the friendly Government
/ of Spain. DO had strictly enforced the
] neutrality law. 10 bad suppressed al
/ aid in tle shape Of military expeditions.
4 ANA had gone lo the very verge of It's
International obligations in protecting
/ Spain from the effect of that widespread
/ sympathy. That feeling had found pro-
/ per, respectful. and courteous expression
] IItrrH I.rrf SON
/ However much Spain might Doe irrilaicd
/ 10y that action, she had no right in amy
/ international point oi view % find fault
! with or 10 call to account the Govern
mert of the United States for that exc
l preston of the opinion of ns people.
/ Mr.. Gray argued that there was 30 Ica-
| son why the Senate should accept the
/ House resolutions after its own resolu-
/ IONS had been COntcmptuouslv swept
aside. He thought that there was grave
! objection TO the language OF the House
resolution. II did not put the attitude of
/ Congress where it ought 90 be put as corr
] roeuy ass t4e Senate resolution did. He
| closed with am expression or the hope
I that Spain, without rupture or friendly
/ relations. shall sit down with us at the
council board OF nations and consider
| whether there may not De some other
/ issue Of this sorry controversy than the
/ determination OF whole people fighting
/ for their liberties"
"THE SENATOR FROM SPAIN"
| Mr. Cray was so frequently interrupted
! hy Air.. Hale that h4 saicastically apollo
I gzed Tor breaking 50 often into lIr.
/ liaic's Speech and referred TO him. as If
/ uy slip of the tongue. as "the senator
! lom SPAIN N-aughteI)
ln tle course of air. Grav's speech ATr.
| Hale fatty contradicted statement re-
/ l,aiediy made bl AIR. sherman. chairman
I nl the Foreign Relations Committee. AS
d -- i-.--- --tll- violated 4u fle promises
/ ana reforms stipulated in the capitulali0n
| of hN, when the insurgents of that dav
! laia down their arms. Mr. Sherman had
/ sdii' among other things. That although
/ representation in the Spanish Corles was
/ ln.n promised. The Cubans had only one
/ delegate there, hut Nr. Hale affirmed
] that Le had q list Of forty-nve mom-
/ heIs in The House OF Deputies a4d fifteen
! or moro members in tho Senate from the
| Two Islands of Cuba ana Porto Rico.
"if. Hale declared with warmth that
| hs was lanorInF under o sense OF indig-
nation at thc suppf i0n 10 the facts of
/ mo case by the Committee on Forcien
I Relations.
AIR. Chiffon. of Texas. spoke against the
I Cuban resolutions in their present form.
I
recognizing the hellieeroncy of the Gu
( bans, nuL not as a. concurrent resolution.
ana he did not think that CONGRESS
alone lad the right 90 declare war or
give hcliieercncy rights without the con-
currcnce Of the prfsiIoni. except when
Congress accorded these rights over
the Pre- idents veto by tw0-thlrds
vote. Tie agreed that the tone OF public
opinion. while mild in the beginning.
was growing more ANA more aggressive
with each turn Cf itc wheel. The orici-
nal resolutions of the Foreign Relations
Committee were mild enough. and could
give no oncnce 20 Spain. but another
turn of the wheel was taken, and the
resolutions of Senator Cameron. oncrne
the lntemcCIalion OF the United States
for tho recognition of Cuban iudcnond-
cnce. were Incorporated Boo the simpler
committee resolutions. Tine Senator from
Pennsylvania had distinctly stated in his
speech that Spain'5 deciinat0n OF our
Intervention must rc ull in War between
the United States and Spain The SEN
aior from Alabama (Alr Moisam had
also spoken in the same strain. But, not
ausled even with This declaration, an
other turn or the wheel was taken. and
the House resolutions we're 10 be ac-
cep,ed.
THE EFFECT OF WAR.
These resolutions were offered 20 cater
TO the war-liko spirit now dominant in
tAe United States. IL was against this
very war-llkc spirit that Do felt calico
upon to protest. The people Of the
United States had nothing to gain by
such % war. and much 20 l0se-a return
Go the conditions existing during the
late war. the plunging Of the country into
debt. and the vast issues Of hOnds-bur-
dcns which the people would have 70
drag for hfty years.
Senators spoke Of The barbarlties being
pacticcd in Cuba. but there were no
facts on which TO base such assertions.
40 support these statements, senators
were quoting the accounts OF atrocities OF
the last war, but he was not one 10
drag in The acts OF ten or more years
ago. III America was 10 80 forth ana
purify the world, why did 10 not turn
lis attention 10 Russia and Turkey
lie believed that Intervention OF the
United States in Cuban affairs meant
tLe ultimate annexation or the island 20
the United States. v.th all the difficult
ties attendant upon this action. lie drew
a darl. picture OF the miseries already
hanging over the United States, on ac-
count OF bitter racial feelings, and he
deprecated the Introduction OF any fresh
causes of bitterness.
CAFFERY'S OPPOSITION.
Mr.. Canery opposed the bestowal or
nclngcrent rights upon the Cubans. The
resolutions. no said. were passed on the
statements Of irresponsible newspaper
correspondents whose accounts OF afiairs
in cuba riyailei the stories of the Ara ablan
Nfrlfs g'hey located the fnsurgcnt cani-