Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-28
FIFTY-FoURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, req. 70.
SENATE
A Senate bill to authorize the Presi
! dent to appoint and confer the rank o
first lieutenant of infantry to the di
rector of gymnastics and instructor o
swordsmanship at the United Stats
Military Academy was passed.
The resolution offered some days ago
by Mr.. Allen for the appointment o
James B. Lloyd as second acting as
sistant doorkeeper was laid before tht
Senate and was then withdrawn b,
Mr.. Allen-ssying that he did so il
view of the fact that there seemed te
be an entire misunderstanding about il
on the part of republican Senators.
On motion OF Mr. Sherman the bust
ness of the morning hour was dispensed
with and the resolution for recogni
ton of Cuban belligerency-on which
the vote is to be taken at 4. p. m.-wn:
taken up.
Mr.. Lindsay addressed the Senate
He said war was being carried on at the
very doors of the United States between
the people of Cuba and the Spanish
government, and it would result either
in the independence of Cuba or in the
utter destruction of her people. Elk
pressions of sympathy would avail
nothing to the Cuban insurrectionists
If the United States intended to take
any step to bring about condition Of
affairs in Cuba different from that
which had existed during the last
seventy years. that step should be in
the direction of the ultimate indepen.
dence of Cuba. There was a state Of
t lings in Cuba that would justify the
government of the United States in
,nsidering proposition for active in.
reference in the struggle, for the reason
that it seemed highly probable that,
without such interference, public order
could never be restored in Cuba.
The United States had the right to de.
mand that Spain should give to Cuba
some sort of respectable government,
some sort of protection: some sort Of
liberty, that would commend itself to
the enlightened civilization of the age.
If Spain did not pay the obligations
resting on her, and if her necessities
prevented her doing so, then the time
had come for steps to be initiated; and
they could be properly initiated only
by the government of the United
States.
Mr.. Sherman, chairman of the com.
mittee on foreign relations, addressed
the Senate in advocacy Of the resolu-
ton reported from that committee. He
said that he did not disguise from him
self the danger and responsibility of
hostile movements following the &C
ton of Congress. Spain was a SEN
sitive, proud and gallant nation and
would not submit to what she conf l.
cred an injustice. At the same time his
convictions were strong that the condi-
ton of affairs in Cuba was such that
the intervention of the United States
must be given, sooner or later. In his
judgment Cuba should be attached to
Mexico, because Cubans and Mexicans
spoke the same language, bad the same
origin, the same antecedents, and
many of the same circumstances.
He read extracts from book
relating to the asserted cruelties
of the Spapards, and declared in
the most solemn terms, that if this kind
of policy is pursued by Spain in Cuba,
and if the people of the United Ststes
be informed of it, there is no earthly
power that will prevent the people of
the United States from going over 10
that island. running all over its length
and breadth, and driving out from i,
those robbers and imikators of the worst
men that ever live2ffu the world. Zap
plause from Crowds in the gallery }
Whatever, Mr.. Sherman concluded,
may hs the result of the adoption of
this his measure, / desire to take my share
of responsibility for it. And, with q
confidence in the judgment OF the al
mighty ruler of the universe, 1 believe
it will be wise if we can assist and If
the other nations of America will con-
cur, in given to the people of Cuba the
same liberties which we now enjoy"
(Applause).
Mr.. Gallinger also spoke in favor of
the resolution.
HOUSE.
The House resolved itself into
committee on the whole to consider
the legislative executive and judicial
appropriation bill for the year ending
June 80, 1897.
Mr.. Henderson, chairman of the
committee on judiciary, gave notice
that he would tomorrow bring in an
or Ter from the committee on rules, max
in in order as an amendment to the az
preparation bill the bill recommended
b. the committee on the judiciary 10
range the system of compensation of
officials of United States courts f ON
fees to salaries, so that it could be con-
sidered iu connection with the bill.
A RABBITS Foot IN CoURr.-Law-
yer Mirabeau L. Towns won a case in
the New York Supreme Court yester-
day and verdict of IS 600 for his client,
q little black boy named Alpheus An.
gustus Stokes, who came up North
from Virginia with his mother in Au-
gust, 1894. The case was tried before
Tuotico Dickav ond i1ru AInha,,c