The morning times., 1896-03-12

! However. the debate in the Senate will
go on, all the same today and until the
subject is disposed OF, as the conference
report is a privileged question, at least
until O'Clock every day when it comes
/ in conflict with the resolution for seating
| Mr.. Dupont as Senator from the State OF
| Delaware-a question OF still higher priv
ilege.
| Mr.. Hoar's speech was largely an ar
| raignment of the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations for reporting the concurrent Teso
lutions without having any facts to Justify
such action He appealed TO Senator Sher-
man. whom he placed on the same pedestal
with Lincoln, Grant, FISH Seward and
his own iliustrious brother. General Sher-
man. to recede from the position which he
| had taken; and the only reason for which
was, he intimated, because Presidential
election was at hand. Mr.. Hoar said some
| very severe things about the action of the
| Committee on Foreign Relations and said
| that when he wrote the word concur
rent at the head OF the resolution, itmeant
| lit is 10 be distinctly understood that this
| is a Pickwickian resolution"
MR.. HOAR's FURTHER REMARKS.
| After the account OF the Senate proceed
| llisS III lilt tNcTllilS GtilliOi vi lic IIlIto
closed Mr. Hoar said 1t was to beIamented
| that the youth of the Spanish universities
had been SO excited as TO offer indignities
to the American flag; and that the minister
! from Spain "a gentleman anofgreataccomplish-
ments and the representative OF friendly
power, was stung into breaking over diplo-
matte proDrety, in making an appeal, in
! an irregular way, to the United States.
| Mr.. Hoar spoke, in that connection, OF
Spain as the ally and friend of tue Ameri-
| can colonies i'll The war OF Independence
| and as having ii potent influ-
-encc in preventing armed intervention
! by France and Great Britain in Tie late
civil war. The Senate. Mr.. Boar de
| clared must dorlts; duty with courage and
! firmness. Whatever the Senate did should
| be done In calm, quiet. dignified spirit,
| as befitted the action OF a great people.
| 1t ought to initiate. not the excitement
of mobS; it sa4esEs to- Indulge not in the
! impassiOned 2eloquenCe of ora tors; and
not in the Aimulant appeals to love OF
! liberty, or td any other public passion,
| good or bad9 This was d time and an
occasion for Fthe judicial faculty.
Mr.. Hoar Arned then to criticise Sena-
| tors Shermai9 and Morgan for their utter
| ances on the Cuban question and particu-
| larly to poinf out the fact that the Com
mittee on FdSeign Rela ttuns had no facts
! before it-nofling hut the brief of a counsel
for the Cubah insurgents; and said that
what he wak pleading fer WAS q little
gravity and a. 1fttIe deliberaten. Al
various poiIhs in the speech Senators
Sherman and-.s Morgan were goaded into
rather angry rdsponses: but on The whole
the debate went on with but small manifes-
! tations of aspefity. F , - g.
Mr.. Hoar was very sarcastic about the
! documents upon which the Committee on
| Foreign Relations relied for its report?
| particularly the brief OF the Cuban gent
Or counsel, some ~eoasular reports, stale
ment by some Spanish writer WHO had
| been quoted by Mr.. Morgan, and whose
i name Mr.. Hoar pronounced asJesu Beyo-
! caba. and the paragraph In the American
| CycIopaedla, asserting that in the last
| Cuban war $4,000 prisoners of war had
| been put to death by the SpaniarCis.
! He ridculed all those alleged proofs
! and said that If the Committee On Claims
brought in a bill to pay poor widow
! S1oo with no better reasons than the
| Committee on Foreign Relations gave
| for the concurrent resolutions, the bill
would be recommitted with instructions
| TO the committee to report the facts.
NO JUSTIFICATION
| He sent to the CLERKS desk and had read
writings OF Prof. Wolsey, Mr.. Richard \.
| Dana and other writer's on jurisprudence,
to show that there was no Justification
| for a recognition of Cuban beIligerency.
| His honorable friend from Ohio, he said.
| would go down in history by the side of
| the very greatest OF the great men OF the
| civil war time.
He would stand by the side OF Lincoln,
! Grant, Fish. Seward and his own illus
| trious brother, men to whom God in his
providence and bounty had committed the
! great task Of saving the life of the great
| republic when 1t was in peril. and saving
! the vast hope OF human liberty on the face
| of the earth. He trusted that his honorable
| friend would wash Off, as with a wet
! sponge, the record he had made in this
| Cuban matter, and recede from his posi-
| ton. He hoped that bis friend would
| prefer to go down In history by the side
| of those great men rather than even in the
| delightful company of his friend from Al
! ALBANIA, Mr.. Morgan. The concurrent resO-
lutiors not only wiped out from iDterna-
| tional law and from the pages of Amer
| lean jurisprudence the great doctrine Of
neutrality but it did SO timidiy. hesitatingiy,
| ineffectiyely.
His honorable friends OF the Committee
| on Foreign. Relations shrunk-he would
| not say flincbed from sending their declar-
| alton of beiligefency where it could alone
have any political effect. That utterance
would accomplish all the mischief it was
capable of, but none of the effects which
| it appeared to aim at. 1t was not the act
| OF the American people. 1t was not bind
| ing upon the President. 1t was not bind
| ing on either House of Cong ress. 1t meant
nothing. It lad no power. The President
of Che United states could alone give it
| life, vigor, pIotenty and authority. And
when the Committee on Foreign Relations
wrote the word s'concurrent'' at the head
of it, it wrote these words: 1T is dis
tinctIy to bee understood that this is
Pickwickan fpSo1dtion."
| As to the circufhStantiaI evidence which
the Committee on Foreign Relations claimed
| to have, it reminded him of the charge
| of a magistrate to jury in a case IN East
| Cambridge, Mass, where there is navy
yard. 1t was q case OF circumstantial
evidence, and the judge said:
Gentlemen of the jury. eiroumstantiaI
evidence is where Skno improves
| a fact that is not known. If you see great
activity in the navyyard tomorrow
it is not proof that war is approaching,
but that an election is approaching"
| AN ELECTION COMING.
And so,'' said Mr.. Hoar, extraordinary
excitement shown by the Senator from
Ohio in this matter is not proof of any
| creat disturbance in our FOREIGN relatinns