The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-12
CUBAN WAR STILL RAGES
With Undiminished Intensity in
United States Senate.
SENATOR'S MORGAN AND SHERMAN
CROSS SWORDS WITH MIR. HOAR.

Massachusetts Senator Wakes Sarcastic
With Regard to Foreign Relations
Committee-His Resolutions Go to the
Calendsr-House Passes Post Office
Matters.
Washington. March lin the Senate
today Mr.. Pritchard, Republican OF
North Carolina, was appointed on the
committee on pensions in place of Mr..
Hawley, Republican of Connecticut, re-
lieved at his own request. During the
morning business joint resolutions
were introduced by Mr.. Allen, Populist
Of Nebraska, and referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations, requesting the
President to cause a thorough and rigid
investigation into the manner in which
the war between Spain and the belliger-
ents in Cuba is being conducted, whether
in accordance with the established rules
of civilized warfare or whether unusual
and exceptional atrocities are and have
been perpetrated by either party toward
the other, particularly toward non-com-
batants. The joint resolution appro-
PIRATES $40, 900 for the expenses OF the in
quiry.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Chandler for an inquiry by the COM
nlittee on civil service into the expenses
of senators for the past year, was report
ed back favorably and placed on the cal
endar.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Hoar, Republican of Massachusetts,,
to postpone until April, the conference
report on the
CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
was laid before the Senate Mr.. Hoar ad-
dressed the Senate in support of it. He
said that the question of belligerency
was question of fact. and it was reason
able that the usual precautions should be
taken. The Senate should have before
it finding of these facts by the pro per
committee with its Investigations. The
subject was discussed in committee for
| several days and was brought into the
Senate without report, accompanied by
| a speech from Senator Morgan, who de-
clared his belief in the power Of Congress
| without the President to grant belliger-
g MT rights. The other speech, that of Mr..
| work that was repudiated. Upon these
statements, without any presentation Of
| the facts, Congress was asked to act.
| Mr.. Morgan interrupted Mr.. Hoar to
say that the committee on Judiciary, of
which Mr.. Hoar was chairman, had be-
fore it the question determining the
nature of the concurrent resolutions and
involving the status of the Cuban reso-
lutions themselves. There had been an
unusual delay there.
| The committee on foreign relations
waited patiently but in vain for light
from that committee. Mr.. Hoar accused
the committee of bssing it's resolutions
upon a statement eontained IN letter
from an agent of the Cuban junta
Mr.. Sherman took exception to this
statement declaring that the letter came
| from the State Department itself.
Mr.. Hoar was complaining of the
LACK OF INFORMATION
before the Senate on the Cuban question,
and Mr.. Sherman called his attention to
the prjnteds document of 400 pages, con-
tanning message from the President and
| all the correspondence conducted by the
State Department. ''This document
has .been before.ths Senate more than
two weeks, and was open to the Senate
all the time" said Mr.. Sherman some.
what petulantly.
~ don't believe anybody ever read it, -
retorted Mr.. Hoar.
"l quoted from that document in my
speech literally" said Mr.. Morgan.
"That speech was in the nature of q
report from the committee then," said
Mr.. Hoar, with apparent glee.
"You spoke for the committee when
you laid the sword on the table and
asked Spain to take it up. Did you not
speak for the committee when you said
that there had been $4,000 prisoners ex-
ecuted in Cuba2"
Mr.. Morgan said that he did not speak
for the committee with regard to tn Q
execution of prisoners and added that
the record had been deliberately mis-
quoted. He gave that as quotation
from printed work, not as a statement
of his own.
Mr.. Hoar said he did not believe the
alleged facts before the Senate were
sufficient to overrule the great Ameri-
can authorities on international law.
The senate was asked to put the seal OF
it's condemnation on the doctrine of Lin
coin and, Seward, and later the doctri ne
OF Grant. Mr.. Hoar said that the recent
activity on the part of the somewhat
sleepy committee on foreign relations
was circumstantial evidence not that
war was approaching, but that
ELECTION WAS APPROACHING.
He opposed the idea that Congress