The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-18
A Recital of Spain's Revolving
CrueltieS.
SENATOR MORGAN SPEAKS
Letters Written by Eye-Wlt'
nesses Read.
WAR WITH SPAIN WELCOMED
The Senator Declared That IL Was
Only the Craven Substitute Who
Measured the Cost of a
just Contest.

just Contest.
Washington. d. G., March 17.-The
| Cuban debate in the Senate is drawing
to a close, and the expectation is that
final vote will be taken in day or
| two, and possibly tomorrow.
Mr.. Sherman is keeping the question
before the Senate continuously, so that
the speeches are not likely to last much
longer. Mr. Mills, of Texas, and Mr..
Platt, of Connecticut, are yet TO be-
| heard. but their remarks will not be
| lengthy.
/ MIR. Morgan, of Alabama, occupied
almost the entire session to-day speak
i ing until o'clock tonight in support
/ of the resolutions. 1t was mainly an
argument, without dramatic interest.
/ The Senator severely arraigned Minis
ter Depuy de LONE, of Spain, for impro-
| priety in criticising Senators. He also
| recited many evidences of the seyeri-
| ties and atrocities with which Spain
was prosecuting the war.
i Mr. Morgan said he feared that the
fanaticism of Spain would lead her TO
| take up the gage of war, no matter how
mild and proper the course of Congress
might be.
Mr.. Elkins' resolution directing the
| committee on Foreign Relations to re-
port the status of the Cuban war went
| over until tomorrow. after confer
ence between Mr.. Elkins and Mr.. Sher-
man. During the day, Mr.. Pugh,
/ f Alabama, was recognized Tor
/ continuance of his silver speech
| which was begun yesterday lie ar
i gued that the movement for an inter-
Il
i tile. as England would notconsent to Ii.
/ The Senator declared that it the
| friends of silver in the three political
/ parties could be united on one man, they
i would elect q President by an over
| whelming majority. But unfortunate
4 lv the friends of free silver were fight
/ ing each other in separate political or
ganizations, and this fact was the great
| est and the only obstacle in the way of
| their success in the next Presidential
election. 1t was utterly unreasonable.
/ said Mr.. Pugh, to expect free coinage
4 Democrats, who constitute four-ffths
| of the parfy,to go over to the Populist
| party, made up of mere fraction OF the
| friends of fre silver.
i Mr. Morgan, in the course of his speech,
read evidences of Spanish cruelty in
/ Cuba. One referred to the massacre of
seven young men, who were stoSd
i aginst wall and shot To pieces by
regiment of soldiers.
who is responsible for that state
ment?' asked Mr.. Hale. rs any name
| signed to that report?"
| Mr.. Morgan said it was taken from a
recital of an eye witness, given in a
New York paper. The massacre was
historically established beyond ques-
/ tion. If Mr.. Hale insisted on having
1 witnesses, it would be necessary to
bring Minister Depuy de Lome-~and
| Gonzales Qucsada to the bar Of the
i Senate.
Mr.. Morgan went on to read from
personal letters received by him Civ
ing the experience of men in Cuba. The
| letters told of violation of girls and
| the massacre OF women and children.
| Six men gathering bananas were kill
| ed and the bananas stuffed down their
| throats as a joke. A Cuban general
was stripped of his clothes and exhib
| tied before crowds of women, then kill
ed and his body dragged mile. A
| beautiful girl was torn from her moth
| er and carried off by a Spanish Of
! ficer These atrocities were given with
| great minuteness, said to be the per-
sonal observation of the writer's of the
/ letters. Mr. Morgan said the writer
| was a graduate of the Virginia Militia
ry Academy.
Another letter was from a Philadel-
/ phian who recounted atrocities wit
nesses by him and another from Gen.
| Daniel Sickles, formerly United States
| Minister to Spain.
Mr. Morgan said these letters declar-
! ed the existence of a bloody war and
| it was the duty of Congress to recog-
nize that condition of war as existing.
| This should be done in spite of any
gronndless offense taken by Spain or
/ OF any idle threats sent on postal cards
| 10 Senators. If war came, said the
Senator, there would be no lack Of
money. He had seen the Confederacy
/ equip itself from the mines and the
resources of the earth. 1t was only
the craven substitute who measured
/ the cost of just contest. If 1T were
not for his obligations as a Senator
he would be abreast of the thousands
of Americans who wished TO interfere
with force in Cuba. Speaking of the
many Cuban resolutions urged before
| Congress the Senator said any one of
them was as sure to- drive Spain to
war as was u JOFpSuO eAplOueu III L1e
neck of bull sure to excite it TO des-
peration. The Senator said he had re-
! ceived postal cards from the North,
bidding him to leave the country and
! console with the negro, Maceo. But
he could not be diverted by these in
suits or the attack of some newspapers
which asserted he was seeking a war
with Spain in order to bring about the
restoration Of silver poinapp
II would rather be in a cabinet with