Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-02-27


the committee on pensions, announced
the publication in the New York Sun
OF the statement last Thursday that
the senate had passed 100 private PEN
sion bills in an hour in a careless, in
attentive way. He declared that only
rs had been passed in. two and three
quarters hours at a total increase Of
$l2,0I2 per year. Mr. Hoar Qep., Mass.)
added his opinion as to the care with
which pension legislation was guarded
DR.. Hawley rep, Conn., upheld the
facts as stated by Mr. Gallinger, but
added that there was quite prevalent
feeling against large pension expend-
lures. Mr.. Gallinger called up the bill
granting pension of 5000 per month
to the widow of the late w. @. Gresham
as brigadier general with an amend
ment reducing the allowance to $780,
Mr. Turpie tdem., Ind spoke in sup
port of the amendment. He said the
choice of Gresham as secretary of state
took the country by surprise. Gresham
was never known as democrat and
his choice marked a departure from
established usage. At the outset he
was threatened with isolation but his
good nature won him personal friends
while his substantial ability and tact
commanded respect. Mr.. Turpie spoke
of the difficulties In the Hawaiian and
Boring sea complications and the tre-
mendous labor involved. The love of
justice was the absorbing motive of his
life. political and social and social dis
tinctions disappear ing before this con
trolling trait in his character. He
was natural leader of men on the
field, in the judiciary and in the cabi-
nets of two parties. The bill as
amended passed without division.
Mr. Lodges resolution directing the
finance committee to inquire into the
bond sales of 1S94-5-6 was taken up.
Mr.. PETER pop, Kans) offered an
broadening the resolution,
directing that the inquiry be made
by a special committee of five senator's.
Mr.. Lodge moved to lay the amendment
on the table, defeated 16 10 a. Mr.,
Hill (dem.. N Y) spoke in opposition.
He did not consider it the province
OF the senate to investigate everything
brought before 1t. 1t was desirable to
look into the motives inspiriting these
resolutions. Requests for information
were one thing; formal Investigations
another. An investigation carried the
Implication OF irregularity. There
should be something definite and tan
gibie before undertaking one This in
vestigation was based on Idle rumor
and voiced "the walls and complaints
of disappointed bond bidders" He
would make the same point even If the
secretary OF the treasury was his most
bitter enemy. The resolutions were then
laid aside and the resolution for the
recognition of the Cubans as bolliger-
ents was taken up. Mr.. Morgan dem,
Alal resumed his speech in support OF
the resolution.
Mr. Morgan spoke for three hours and
had not concluded when the senate adj
United States regarding Cuba since the
time OF President Adams. The latter
prophesied that within fifty years Cuba
would be a state of the United States
and thereafter Webster, Clay, Jefferson
and other statesmen uniformly urged
the acquisition of Cuba by the United
States. Mr.. Morgan said that the atroc-
tiles of the Spanish forces in controll-
ing the Cubans were almost without
parallel in history. In the last war not
only had 10000 Cubans been killed in
battle, but $4,000 prisoners had been put
to death 1t was most shocking holo-
caust. The senator said that he paused
in wonderment to think that the United
States stood silently by at this awful
slaughter of $4,000 prisoners instead OF
moving sword in hand and driving the
Spaniards from the island, 1t was the
imperative duty of today to declare Is
state OF war existing. The great body
Or native Cubans were in favor OF in
surrection, although the bloody code OF
Weyler holds them in subsection. Spain
up TO this time has sent 81 war vessels,
10000 men and 10000 volunteers for
garrison duty, and yet this vast force
cannot keep Gomez from hearing the
morning and evening guns In Havana
MIR. Morgan said that II the bloody code
of General Weyler was directed against
one American citizen Spain should un-
derstand that 60,000,000 people would
visit upon her such redress as would
make the Cuban uprising mere tribe
in comparison We had right to IN
sist that the rules Of civilized warfare
be observed
Mr.. White rep, Cali, offered a sub
stitute for the pending resolution as
follows
Resolved, That the senate eontem-
plates with solicitude and profound re-
gret the sufferings and destruction as
companying the civil conflict nov in
progress In Cuba. While he United
States has mi inteffered and will not,