The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24
expedite action on this subject and in

III.
will move to recommit the pending
resolutions to the conference commit
tee"
AS Mr.. Palmer had the floor. Mr.
Sherman could not secure immediate
action on his motion.
Mr.. Palmer urged the unnecessary
offensive and contradictory terms of
the house resolutions. They embraced
A NEEDLESS THREAT
of Intervention, which if executed,
meant intervention by war. The sena-
tor spoke of the unorganized condition
of the CubanS.
This brought out protests from Mr..
Morgan and Mr.. Call. The former read
the proclamation Of Cisneros. president
OF the insurgents, together with let
ter from Crosby S. Noyes, of the Wash
lngton Star, giving assurances of the
authenticity of the document Mr.. Nor
gan said he approved every word of
that splendid appeal of Cisneros.
Mr.. Mills offered the following Joint
resolution, after which he said he
would speak on the resolution tomor-
row.
BE it resolved by the senate and
house of representative of the United
States of America, in congress assem-
SA~Ns tlieAI Tic VI The u
States is hereby directed to request
the government of Spain to authorize
the people of Cuba subject to the SOW
ereignty of Spain to institute such To-
cal government as they may wish and
invest with such powers as they may
think necessary to secure to the peo-
pie of Cuba, life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness.
Section I'm case Spain shall re-
fuse to grant to the inhabitants of
Cuba the rightful power of elf-govern-
ment, then the president of the United
States is hereby directed to take pos
session of the island of Cuba with the
military and naval forces of the Uni
ted States and hold the same until
the people of Cuba can organize a
government deriving it's just powers
from the consent of the governed, and
arm and eGuiy such military forces as
may be necessary to protect them from
invasion.
Mr.. George of Mississippi. spoke in
opposition to the resolutions.
Al O'Clock there was a -lull in the
speeches. whereupon Mr.. Sherman
sought to s':Icure a, vote ON his mo-
ton to recommit the resolutions to
the conference committee. A vote was
about to be taken, when Mr.. Allen Of
fered a speech.
Many senators urged him to wait, as
the Sherman motion would dispose of
the subject for the present, but Mr.
Allen insisted on going on and the vote
was deferred:
Mr. Allen said that if the United
States stood by while Spain applied the
knife to the threats of the Cubans, we
would be justly chargeable by the
world with impotency and cowardice.
He ridiculed the waning patriotism of
senator's. AT first senators had fallen
over each other to support this resolu-
ton. Then the senator from Maine,
O7ale). had sounded the signal for the
retreat.
And now" concluded Mr., Allen.
''the senator from Ohio (Sherman)
moves to recomnit. 1t looks as though
he Joined in the retreat, and this will
be the last of this resolution
AS soon as Mr.. Allen closed, Mr..
Sherman presented his motion to re-
commit. There was
NO WORD OF OPPOSITION. :.
and the presiding officer, Mr. Bacon.
put the question Not more than
twenty senators were present. There
was chorus of ayes" and no mays"
and the motion prevailed. No request
for a, roll call was made and the SEN
ate Immediately turned to other bust
ness. The recommfttal came so quick
1y that the crowds did not realize wat
had been done until the clerk began
reading the items of the legislative
appropriation bill, which had been
taken up. Subsequently Mr. Platt Of
fered another phase of the Cuban sub
ject by presenting the following son-
current resolution, which was referred
to the committee on foreign relations:
Resolved, That the senate, the
house of representatives concurring,
hereby expresses its earnest desire
and hope that Cuba may soon become a
free, independent and republican gov
eminent, and that the friendly offices
of the United States should be offered
by the president to the Spanish gov
eminent to secure this result
The legislative appropriation bill
was pending when. at 5:15, the senate
went into executive session, and soon
adjourned