The morning times., 1896-03-18
QuEsADA Ind De LONE
Mr.. Morgan Wants Tt.em Con-
fronted in the Senate.
COULD SETTLE THE QUESTION
Aiabama's Senior Senator Prays God
for Somebody TO Act az jefferson
Did With Minister Seyet-Gen.
Sickles' Account of Spanish Cruelty
Read-Belieyes In BelIIgerency.

ator Moragn, DEM, Alabama, closed his
defense or the action Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations in reporting the Cuban
resolutions.
He repled to the criticisms OF Senators
Hale, Rep, Maine, and Hoar, Rep, Massa-
cnusetts, in connection with the state
ments from the Spanish minister, aud
he placed against those arguments on
the side of Spain, The statements OF
Quesaua, the Cuban representative in
Washington, and various other newspaper
publications., besides various written COM
munications detailing stories aud afro
cities perpetrated i'll Cuba, during The last
insurrecton. His speech yesterday morn
ing occupied altogether about seven hours.
IL Will be followed today with q speech
on the same subject by Mr.. Mills, Dem,
Texas.
Mr.. Morgan began by speaking of the
super OF Spain because She
felt the sand gliding from under her feet,
while 1.-The gem or lne Antilles" was pass
Ing out or her grasp. Spain had sucked
the orange well nigh dry, until It's sweet
ness was about all gone. He spoke of
the 'furtive allusion TO sugar" in the
paper of the Spanish minister, made pub
lie yesterday, and said that ii was intended
TO sweeten the invocation for American
sympathy and aid 10 crush the rebellion.
He sent 10 the clerks desk and had read
what he called the Spanish minister's
"dlatribe against the Senate and Senator'S"
He spoke or SenOr Lone as "a superCilious
foreign minister" and said that II was
high time for the House and Senate to
close their doors against such attempts
to influence them. This was the first
time, he said. when the foreign repre-
sentative of a monarchy could call in Ques-
ton the members of those bodies for words
uttered in debate.
Senor ue Lomes statement to the press
having been read by the clerk, Mr.. Nor
gan resumed lIS speech He spoke of the
censorship Of the cable between Cuba and
America by the Spanish authorities;
and said that, So far as the mails were con
cerned, he had been Informed yesterday
by Can ohc priest, who knew perfectly
well both Spain and Cuba, that the mails
between Cuba and the United States were
constantly opened and their contents ex
amined. 1t was perfectly well known.
Mr. Morgan added, that all the teIegraphic
Information from Cuba was doctored,
unless 1t happened to be favorable 10 the
Spanish cause. He had lost respect for
minister who had undertook 10 mis-
quote a Senator as the Spanish had mis-
quoted him. and he read from the Congress
sional Record the statement which he,
Mr.. Morgan, had made in the Senate, and,
which he said, the Spanish minister had
misquoted.
NO MORE PUBLIC TINKERING.
The facts stated by him, Mr.. Morgan,
In that speech stood confessed by Spain
through the lips OF her minister, who, hav
ing the opportunity TO make denial,
evadcd the statements and left them un-
answered. He dissented entirely from
the opinion expressed in the Senate that
foreign minister in this country had the
riISi,r tG resort TO tie press TOT the purpose
of affecting any matter pending in Con
gress. or in respect to any policy OF the
United States which he might consider
to be offensive or injurious to his
country. He chara cterized Senor de
LOme's statement 10 the press as "a
flagrant abuse OF privilege"
IL was certainly time, he added, that the
diplomatic affairs of the United States
were withdrawn from public tinkering
and tampering. If the Senate was to be
continually kept in ''uproar and confusion"
by telegrams coming from the premier of
Spain to some newspaper editor in the
United States-to be read in the Senate as
authoritative statements-t the State De-
partment might as well be abolished, leav-
ing the people to rely on those men who
had acquired eminence in newspaperdom
for the purpose of gaining knowledge OF
Mr.. Morgan then discussed the point Of
the constitutional guarantee against Sen
ators or Representatives being held TO
account for words spoken in debate. He
might, in his place in the Senate, calum-
Mate any citizen of the United States hav
ing some connection with public affairs
without being accountable for libel.
Mr.. Gray, Dem, Delaware, asked Mr..
Morgan whether the citizen In question
" 10 Freedom
Mr.. Morgan admitted that he would; but
1t turned out in this case, he said, that the
minister from Spain was not a citizen of
the United States. He was entirely pro-
teCted by the law of nations against any
proceeding to hold him accountable for
libel, either criminally or ciyilly. There
was where the rule came III that Sealed
minister's lips.
Mr.. Morgan read the historical incident
of the interview between Jefferson and the
French Minister Sevet, and exclaimed pas
siunately' Would to God that we had
somebody here now who had Just con-
ception of the constitutional rights of the
different parts of this government"
DOES NOT WANT HIM DISMISSED.
IT have not asked" he continued, "for
the dismissal of the minister. Let him
stay If he wants to. But 1 have a right
to claim the protection of the Constitution
of my country against any assault that
may be made upon my votes or speeches.
I have perfect Indifference TO what Senor
de LONE may say, but l am not going to
subordinate myself quietly to any man in
the world, but more especially to foreign
minister whose country is now being made
q subject of serious examination in the
councils of the Senate"
Mr. Hale, Rep. Maine, called attention
to he fact that the chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, Mr.. Sherman,
did not share in Mr.. Morgan's opinion as
to the Spanish minister's statement, and
read au extract from Mr.. Sherman's last
speech In the Senate, to the effect that
Mr. de LONE had perfect right to defend
his government and people everywhere.
Mr.. Morgan said that he had not pro-
posed TO notice that position OF Mr. Sher-
man, but now that it had been brought
forward he would say that he did not
agree with Mr.. Sherman on that subject
He would now place against Mr.. de LOme's
statement that of Mr.. QueSada, the repre-
sentative of the Cuban republic to Wash
ington, who sent the case in behalf Of
Cuba to the Department of State, which
statement the Secretary of State sent to
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
strip Mr.. de Lone" said Mr.. Morgan.
''of his royal commission and put him ON
his Spanish blood, on his Spanish character
and his history, OF which / know nothing
Then bring Mr.. Quesada here on his his
tory and Spanish blood and character. OF
which / know nothing, and confront them
as they are confronted through the news
papers, and let them both speak,
Mr.. Morgan sent to the clerks 'iesk and
had read Quesada's letter describing sev
eral horrible atrocities alleged to be per
petrated in Cuba during the last rebellion,
i'll which General Weyler is represented as
having had ladies stripped naked, whipped
and given up to the lust of bis troops.
The reading was interrupted by Mr.
Chandler, Rep, New Hampshire, On the
ground that the statements We're too in
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