The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-18
MORGAN and DE LONE.
The Alabama Senator Assails the
Spanish Minister.
THE LATTER TOO PRBsUMPTUOUs.

ious Foreign Minister" Has Been Guilty
of Utterances Which Warrant His Re
oall-Alleged Spanish Cruelties.
WASHINGTON March 1S-The Cuban de-
bate in the senate is drawing to a close,
and the expectation is that final vote
will be taken within n day or two, and
possibly late this afternoon. Mr. Sherman
Is keeping the question before the senate
continuously so that the speeches are not
likely to last much longer Mr. Morgan,
of Alabama, occupied almost the entire
session yesterday, speaking until o'clock
in the evening in support of the resolu-
tions. He spoke of the super -sensitiveness
of Spain, caused he said, because she felt
the sand slipping from under her feet,
while the gem of the Antilles was passing
out of her grasp. Spain had sucked this
orange well nigh dry, until the sweetness
was about exhausted.
Mr. Morgan said the Spanish minister
statement, made public Monday was q
most weak effort. 1t had been kept in
secret doubtless because all its prophecies
OF subduing the insurgents were disproved
by facts The Spanish minister pleaded
that the Insurgents would not come out
for an open fight, for the etiquette and chiv-
| airy VI CDdulSn warfare. Anu ytU GOlll-
mented Mr. Morgan, the Insurgents free
their prisoners, being unable to feed them,
and they maintain no prisons such as the
| Spanish have at Ceuta Africa Spains
conduct of the war in Cuba ran with
blood. The Spanish minister's reference
to sugar and our interests in sugar was
not sufficient, said Mr. Morgan, to sweeten
the sentiment of the committee and lead
it to close its eyes to the feeling of the
American people.
The senator referred to Minister Dupuy
de Lomes celebrated diatribe" criticiz-
ing senators and appealing over their
heads to the American people. Such an
act by Il "supercilious foreign minister"
was most remarkable, and it would be
high time for the American congress to
retire if the American people ever listened
to the appeal of a foreigner calling in
question words used in debate. 1t was "a
presumptious act for the minister to mis-
quote him (Morgan), and he had lost re-
spect for the minister as II gentleman for
adopting II misquotation in order to ap
peal to the American people.
Mr.. Morgan reallirmed his original state
ment that 43, 600 Cuban prisoners had been
murdered in the last war, according to an
official statement. The law shielded a
foreign minister from prosecution for any
libel for any poisonous language he might
emit, and the only remedy was the dis
missal of the minister by the president.
And when foreign minister attacked
congress he abused this legal protection
given him as a diplomatic representative.
After reading Buchanan's letter while
secretary of state to a foreign minister,
declaring that the government would not
entertain inquiries as to a subject treated
in a presidents message, Mr.. Morgan said:
"Would to God we had some one now
who had some comprehension ofithe rights
of the different departments of the govern
ment."
The senator said he was supremely in
different to what Minister De LONE might
say in criticism of him, but he regarded
the minister's course as involving a ser
ious public question. He went on to say
that it was essential that foreign minis
ters be reprimanded, and if need be dis
missed, for assaults on senators for words
used in debate.
The senator then had the clerks read the
reply of Gonzales Quesada, secretary of
the Cuban junta to the Spanish ministers 5
letter 1t related such shocking details
as to indignities on naked Cuban women
by Spanish troops that Mr.. Chandler
urged that the statement be printed, but
hot read.
Mr.. Morgan assented but Mr. Hale in
Sisted that the statement be read in full
In order, as he said, that its credibility
might be judged Mr. Morgan said he did
not vouch for the truth of Senior Quesada's 5
statements, but he asserted that Quesada's $
character was quite as good as that of
Minister De LONE The reading of the
Quesada statement proceeded, giving do
tails of alleged atrocities by General Wey-
Ter, the branding of women on their
breasts the assaulting of defenseless wo-
men, etc.
At the close of the statement Mr.. Hale
rose TO state that he had this horrible re-
cital read in full, in order to show that
such awful atrocities would not be ao-
: cepted as true unless accompanied by evil
dence.
Mr.. Morgan read further evidences of
Spanish cruelty in Cuba One referred to
the massacre of seven young men who were
stood against a wall and shot to pieces by
a regiment of soldiers The massacre Of
the students, he said, was historically es-
tablished beyond a question.
Mr.. Morgan went ON to read from per-
) sonal letters received by him, giving the
+ experience of men in Cuba. The letters
told of violation Of girls and the massa-
Gre Of women and children. Six men
gathering bananas were killed and ban
anas stuffed down their throats as joke.
: A Cuban general was stripped of his cloth
: ing and exhibited before crowds of women
! and then killed and his body dragged a
mile. A beautiful girl was torn from her
mother and carried off by Spanish of.
n feer. Mr., Morgan said the writer was a
T graduate Of the Virginia Military academy
4 The senator said he had received postal
d cards bidding him to leave the country
r ald console with the negro Maceo. But
% hs could not be diverted by these insults
o. by the attack of some newspapers
which asserted he was seeking a war with
Spain in order to bring about the restora'
ton Of silver coinage.
. Il would rather be in a cabinet with
a Gomez and Maceo than with Balmaceda
ald Weyler, declared the senator.
Mr. Morgan said he did not wish to give
Spain any cause of complaint, and he
20 thn mild firm ragpln-