The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-09

Mr. Wolcott. Republican of Colorado,
offered resolution instructing the COM
mittee on libraries to inquire into all the
| facts and circumstances connected with
the late award Of p contract for the erec-
tion at Washington of an equestrian
statue of Gen. W. T.. Sherman, aud re-
questing the Secretary of War to suspend
the execution OF the CONTRACT until q re-
port is received by the Senate at the next
session. He asked for it's immediate con-
| sideraton.
| Mr.. Allison, Republican of Iowa, OBJ
1ected TO its immediate consideration,
and asked that the resolution go over
until tomorrow. So ordered. The clerk
then proceeded with the reading of the
new deficiency bill.
| Mr.. Harris. Democrat of Tennessee,
moved to amend the bill by incorporating
in it the DEGREES of the court of claims
under the Bowman act, aggregating
about half million dollars. These
claims, he said, had undergone the
scrutiny of judicial investigation. They
had long been due and they ought to bo
paid.
. Mr.. Hale, Republican of Maine, in
charge of the bill, made point of order
against the amendment. Those claims
were not, he said, technically Judgments
they had not been audited, and they had
not been estimated for.
fAlUCl 5OAuO O1SCuSn1OA Ull0 v lC6 LT6Sl-
dent submitted the question to the Ssn-
ate, and the point of order was sus-
dained, thus excluding the amendment.
The deficiency bill WAS then passed with
out amendment.
. A resolution concurring in the with
drawal from the trust fund of the Chick
asaw Indians of $780, 900, to be subject to
warrants drawn upon it by the treasurer
| of the tribe was agreed to.
The Senate bill authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint Lieut.. Robert Platt, U.
S. n, to the rank of commander was
passed; also the Senate bill extending re-
lief to Indian citizens in regard to taxes
on their lands held in severalty.
At 2 p. m. the immigration bill was
taken up, and Mr.. Morgan, Democrat Of
Alabama offered an amendment provid-
ing that the bill shall not apply to per-
sons coming from Cuba. He addressed
the Senate in support of it, saying, these
| Cubans came to this country to escape
from the prosecutions Of Spain and to
live under free institutions.
Mr.. Morgan went into the Cuban ques-
the Cubans had been selected by the
| Spanish government for ruinous, oppres-
| sive and unbearable taxation. He con-
fessed that he was not averse to a war
with Spain, If she continued in her
course Of abominable despotism.
/
He did not deny his sympathiss with
Cuba, he said, but as an American cIti-
zen and as Senator, be had confined his
action in the matter entirely to the con-
| stitutional duties of the government of
the United States to its own people. Mr..
Morgan disclaimed having heretofore
said anything offensive to the Queen
Regent of Spain. he eulogized her as
woman of very high character and almost
Mad virt Ho oaid oho yuuc
| titled by virtue of the regency of woman
hood to the utmost respect, and every
| Senator had SO treated her and SO spoke
| of her. He remarked that If the Queen of
| Great Britain. the Queen Regent of
| Spain, the Queen of Greece and the En-
press Of Germany were to meet in Cuba
and witness some things done there, in
the name of Spain, upon innocent
women and children who were shot to
| death by Il brutal soldiery. those great
and noble women would rise in their
majesty and strike to death the power
which enabled brute like Weyler to in
fiiot such wrongs. Butt he said. I'VE
| DENTS theory. idle and mute and wit
ness the continued repetition of these
brutal acts in that island. 1 wish these
noble women were thsre to see them.
They would lay their hands on the arm
of the brutal soldier, who now wields the
sword OF spain Unefe, anu would lell MIN
in the name Of God and humanity and
Christianity to forbear his inhuman
Deeds"
Mir. Morgan's speech was interrupted
by the presentation of partial confer
encs report on the District of Colum bia
appropriation bill, which was agreed to
and further conference ordered.
Mr.. Morgan then continued his speech.
He referred TO Gen. Weyler as one who
plunged his bloodstained sword into the
bosoms Of women and children" and
| whose policy was declared to be one of
extermination. In the second Interrupt
tion of MIR. Morgan's speech the final
conference report on the post office appro-
priation bill was presented and agreed to.
Resuming his remarks, Mr.. Morgan
spoke of the newspaper statements, at
Jributing to President Cleveland pur-
pose of combining the question of bel
| ligerenoy with one of reciprocity. and
expressed the hope that the President
would not interfere with Cuba as he had
interfered with the Hawiian islands. At
the close of Mr.. Morgan's speech, the
Senate proceeded to executive business
and at 5. 40 adjourned.