The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-11

to the passage of the pending resolutions.
Teller said Spain knew we had right to
recognize the belligerents. Spain would
naturally show some feeling, but she would
There was ripple of applause. which
the vice-president checked when Teller
ref4rred 70 his sympathy with Cubans.
II would be deIigh. ed,' said he, ITO
learn that Havana had passed into the
hands of the insurgents. / would be de-
lighted to hear that the insurgents had
run the Spanish soldiers into the sea. But
the senator added that he felt no irritation
over stlnleut ebullitions in Spain.
In conclusion, Teller vigorous y asserted
that the American people would not toler-
ate amy dlctation or criti csm from foreign
representatives accredited here.
Mr.. Chandler, Republican of New Hamp-
shire also thought the Spanish minister
had been guilty of All improperly. His
references" said Chandler, ''were Of
{ensiveAs'
IT dAsire to say" interposed Morgan,
'sthst the Spanish minister misquotes on
the floor of the senate"
THAT illustrates the point I desired to
make,'' continued Chandler, proceeding to
uuote Seucr de Lpme's references to our
paid, for the Spanish minister to have
written sutch a communication. 1t could
not be couatenanceGt.
CONTINUING, Mr.. Chandler expressed the
opinion thar this was entirely too much an
attempt at outside Interference or advice.
He referred to the cabled utterances of
Minister Ca.tello and the president of the
council of Spanish ministers.
Mr.. Hale then took the floor. He was
not prepared, he said, to yield one jot from
the position be took yesterday. and ex-
pressed satisfaction that he had been able
to obtain from an official source such a
tompeaate reply to the inf1ammatory utter
ances against Spain, which were without
any official foundation whatever. He COM
naended the careful tone of the Spanish
minister. who, he said, had observed all
the courtesies of the human language.
With regard to the general question as to
the protWiety OF men in high official sta
tions expressing their views, he declared
that the pyess of today hind invaded realms
not dreamed of thirty years ago. Great
men did nS,t hesitate to make known their
opinions, not only on literary questions.
but on vital questions of international
comfy. He cited Gladstone's expression
on the Venezuelan question.
At this poi ut Gray canae forward with .
supposititioug case.
HSuppose,' ~ said he, "that some mem Der
Of the British house of commons should
read in the no use from sllpposititious case
= statement that before Andrews was exc
eutcd he had been tortured by General
Washington; that his eyes had been burn
cd from their sockets and that he had
been subjected to all sorts of indignities.
Would it be unbecominK to the American
ambassador to call attention to the fact
that the alleged history was unauthenicat-
ed and that a mistake had been made?"
Mr.. Hale readily agreed that there could
be no improperly in such course. If
ouch q thing should happen he said, he had
no doubt that Mr.. Bayard would send a
letter to the London Times setting right
the truth of history.
Mr.. Teller challenged the analogy of the
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cussion of historical events. In this in
stance Senior de Lome's statement was in
tended to offset the action on measures
perding in the senate.
Again taking Up the thread of this argu.
ment, Mr.. Hale referred to the message
sent by the prince OF Wales to the Ameri-
can people through the New York World.
Royalty, he thought. had not abated its
dignity by the act. 1t was simply recog-
milton of the now universally acknowledged
fact that all public men went to the news
papers, magazines and reviews to write
themselves down in matters of great pub
lie moment. Until the Spanish minister,
he concluded, by false criticism overstep-
ped the bounds of prOpriety he did not
think he should be subject to censure or
reproach.
Mr.. Lodge, who had opened the discus
sion, again got the floor and agreed that
this sort of debate over the utterancs of a
representative of a foreign government
was unseemly, but he protested that the
Inatter had not been brought into the sem
ate by hir. But against the foreign min
isters' words charging that he had been
imposed upon "mallciously and fraudu-
lently'' were read here, he thought he
should reply. He had shown that the
Spanish minister's statement was false.
He had no fault to find with the eloquent
defense of the Spanish minister. but even q
United States senator WAS entitled to some
lar Ia hn
words of the Spanish minister, "appeal-
ing'' from what had been said in the senate
to the 'commonsense of the American
people,
history he continued, sit might be we'll
for senators to recall the case of Genet, the
French minister to the United States. who
also took an appeal to the American
people and whom George Washington
turned out of the country. Would Wash
ington be called lingo and taken to task
for his action? In his day and generation
he was considered a man of good juig-
ment."
Mr.. Gray interjected that Genet had
gone 80 far as to enlist troops.
Mr.. Lodge responded that this was not
the case of Lord Sackville West, who was
asked to retire for giving advice as to how
to vote at an election.
''That was a private letter not meant for
publication" suggested Mr.. Teller.
Mr.. Hale added that in the Sackville
West case the letter bore on an election
about to occur.
Mr.. Lodge insisted that the case was
analogous to the present one.
This closed the exciting incident in the
Cuban question, and the senate proceeded
with the usual morning business. The de-
bate had had the effect of filling every
available seat in the senate galleries. The
diplomatic corps was again we'll repre-
sented, several of the ministers and secre-
tares being accompanied by ladies' of the
diplomatic corps. The floor of the senate
also was crowded. members of the house
Killing the rear and side areas.
Another exciting incident occurred when
Mr.. Hoar's resolution, introduced yester-
day, providing that the Cuban question go
over until April 9th, next, was laid before
the senate.
Mr.. Hoar asked that it go over until to-
morrow, as he was in poor health and did
not feel able to speak on the resolution
today.
Mr.. Sherman was quickly on his feet,
his face showing much feeling and his
voice great earnestness.
II shall object to that resolution at all
stages" said he. ~ regard it as a ref1ec-
ton on the committee on foreign relations.
After more than month of discussion,
after overwhelming votes in both branches
of congress, the resolution is brought here
sending the subject back to the committee
on foreign relations. will most decidedly
obiect.''