Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-18
LASH APPLIED BY. MORGAN
Who Spoke for Seven Hours in
Favor of
THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
He Dealt Severely With Senior Delome the
Spanish Minister
PAID HIS RESPECTS TO HALE AND H0AR
But He Exterminated Bennett and Pulitzer.
President Cleveland and the SPAN
ish Primo Minister We're Not
Forgotten by Him.
The CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
PAID HIS RESPECTS TO HALE AND H0AR

Washington, March 1.-THE house OBJ
served st. Patrick's Day by devoting its
session entirely to the consideration of
the bill reported last week from the COM
mittee on ways and means providing
revision of the customs administrative
act of June 10, 1890, by making changes
to sections l to Is, inclusive, and 10 of the
law. The bill makes the following prin-
cipal changes That invoices of merchan-
disc be made out in the currency of the
exportation, instead of the currency IN
which the goods were purchased; requlf-
ing the persons making oath to invoices
in foreign countries to do so before ma
tive officers authorized to administer
oaths so as to make them liable to pros
ecution for perjury; abolishing the l0 per
cent limit of underValuation or invoices,
and making the additional duties I'M
posed for differentiation run with any
increase of the appraisement; permitting
appeals from the findings of the general
appraisers only on questions OF law, ana
providing that protests of importers
against the appraisement OF the collector
shall be accompanied by fee OF ". NO
substantial amendment was made to the
bill, and after five hours consideration
in committee of the whole it was reported
to the house and passed without dl-
vision.
At $40 O'Clock the mouse duJoulneu
until tomorrow.
The Senate.
Tn a four hours speech today Senator
Morgan closed his defense of the ACTON
of the committee on foreign relations In
reporting the Cuban resolutions. he re-
plied to the criticisms of Senators Hale
of Maine and Hoar of Massachusetts,, In
connection with the statements from the
Spanish minister, and he placed against
these arguments on the side OF Spain
the statements of Quesada, the CUBAN
representative in Washington, and vari-
Gus other newspaper pupllcauohs' pc
sides various written communlcatlons
detailing stories and atrocities perpe-
trated in Cuba during the last insurrec-
tion. His speech today and yesterday
occupied altogether about seven nours.
1t will be followed tomorrow with
speech on the same subject by MT. Mills.
Senator Pugh also brought to close TO-
day the speech which he began yesterday
in favor of the free coinage OF silver
Mr.. Pugh attacked the national bank
system, declaring that the banks were
known to be the natural enemies OF me-
talIic money. The silver craze, he said,
was nothing compared with the insanity
of gold spectators in trying to estapllsn
a despotism of money to which the peo-
ple would never submit until they were
really crazed.
mower TO place the United States on
gold basis. or to keep it on silver basis.
If the friends of free coinage IN the tnree
political organizations could be united
on one man they would elect a president
by an Overwhelming majority, Tor IL
could not be honestly questioned that an
overwhelming majority of the whole Vot-
ing population of the United states Ia
vored the independent restoration OF Sill
yer to coinage on equal terms with gold.
But. unfortunately, the friends OF free
fighting With eacl
other in separate political organiza-
tions. and this fact was the greatest ana
only obsta Gle in the way OF tnelr success
In the next presidential election ana was
the main reliance of the advocates on q
gold plutocracy. But it was utterly un-
reasonable to expect free coinage demo-
Gratis. who constituted four-fifths OF the
party, to go over to the popuiist party,
which made up mere traction OF the
friends of free coinage.
Ona man in the White House blocked
the way to free silver coinage so that IT,
was perfectly clear that no legislation
friendly to silver could be made law
while Mr.. Cleveland was president,
Mr.. Pugh concluded his speech at LAO
u. M, and then the conference report on
the Cuban belligerency resolution was
taken up.
Mr.. MORGAN, a member of the COM
mittee on foreign relations, continued
his speech this afternoon, begun yester-
He smoke of the supersensitiveness OF
Spain because she felt the sand sliding
from under her feet while the gem OF
the Antilles" was passing out OF her
grasp Spain has sucked the orange weii
nigh dry until its sweetness was ABOUT
ali gone Mr.. Morgan spoke of the fur.
five aIIusion to sugar in the paper OF
the Spanish minister made pupnc yes
terday. and said that 1t was INTENDED 10
sweeten the invocation Tor American
of6 10, rphplIl0n
He sent to the clerks desk and had read
what he called the Spanish minister's
udiatribe against the senate ana sena-
tors, He spoke of Senior Delome as "a
supercilious foreign minister, ana sald
ttst II was high time for the house ana
eenste TO close their doors against such
attempts to influence them. This was
The first time. he said. when the foreign
representative of monarchy could call
IN question the members OF those podles
for wards uttered in debate. Senor De-
lome's statement to the press having
heen read by the clerk. Mr. Morgan re-
sumed his sneech. He spoke of the CEN
sorship of the cable between Cuba ana
America by the Spanish authorities. and
said that SO far as the mails were con-
oerned he had been informed yesterday
hv a catholic priest who knew perfect
10 well both Spain and Cuba. that the
mails between Cuba and the United
states were constantly opened anq their
contents examined. 1t was perfectly
well known, Mr.. Morgan added, that an
the telegraphic information from Cuba
was doctored. unless 1t happened to be
friendly to the Spanish cause: He had
lost respect for a minister who under
took to misauote senat tor as the Spanish
minister had misouoted him. and he had
read from the Congressional RECORD the
statement which he (Mr MorgaD had
made In the senate. and which he said
the Spanish minister had misquoted.
The facts cited bv him (Mr. Morgan) in
that speech stood confessed by Spain
through the lips of her own minister,
who. having the opportunity to make a
denial. evaded the statement and left
them unanswered He dissented entirely
from the oninion expressed in the senate