The morning news., 1897-02-27
SENATORS SNAP AND SNARL-
CUBAN AFFAIRS STILL THE BONE
OF CONTENTION.

white of California Opens the Days
Fire Works Display with nm At
tack ON LOdGc-MOrgan Next Jumps
Into the Arena and Cruelty Ridi-
cuIes Hale, winding Up With n
Bitter Attack ON President CIcvc-
Iand-DanieI and Gray Then
Brighten the MurISiness of the At
mOsPhere with witty Passages.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The Senate had
the Indian appropriation bill before it
throughout all the days session, but that
fact did not prevent Cuba and the San
gully case from being fought over even
in more angry and excited manner than
it had been yesterday.
AT the very opening Mr.. Frye, rep, OF
Maine, referred to the dispatch announc-
ing Sanguilly's release to-day, and dep
recated further discussion of the matter,
saying that for his part, he did not be-
lieve in wasting powder simply fer the
purpose of making a noise.
The Sanguilly resolution having been
sent to the calendar, two other resolutions
as to victims OF Spanish cruelty were Of
fered-one by Mr.. Morgan, dem OF Ala
bama, in the case of George Washington
Aguirre. and one by Mr.. Cali in relation
TO the suicide or murder of DIR. Ricardo
Ruiz. AS to Aguirre, there were some
comments upon his baptismal name-Mr.
Morgan assuming that it gave to Aguirre
an additional claim upon American sym
pathy, and Mr.. Lindsay, dem, of Ken
tucky, asserting that his surrender, under
a proclamation of amnesty, was an un-
George Washington act A letter from
Ethan Allen of New York, vouchlng for
the young man, was read, and Mr.. Hoar
was led, in a jocose mood to inquire,
with an air of gravity, whether that was
the Ethan Allen of the revolution
MIR. Morgan said that he was the grand
son of the revolutionary hero, and added
the information that he was the president
of the Cuban junta of New York.
The storm broke out again through the
Sanguilly matter and Senators White,
dem, of California, and Lodge rep, Of
Massachusetts, had some delicate spar
ring, in which Mr., White spoke ironicaI-
~ Of Mr.. Lodge as one of the great men
of the world, and as knowing more about
Spanish pronunciation than ail the other
Spanish scholars known This was pro-
voked by Mr.. Lodges sneering at Mr.
White for pronouncing Julio as "H1-
lio. Mr.. Lodge retaliated by imputing
envy to the California senator because
his long speech yesterday had not en-
thused the galleries.
When Mr.. Hale. rep, of Maine, appealed
to the senator's to lay aside all extraneous
discussions and confne themselves to con-
sideration of appropriation bills for the six
remaining days of the session (saying that
he expected the Senate to sit on Sunday,
he was cruelty ridcuied by MIR. Morgan,
and told that he ought to start out on a
regular tour of lecturng If he could find
lot of school children for his audience.
The Alabama senator was in a very UNI
conciliatory mood. He refused angrily
and with every mark of disrespect TO per-
NIT either Senator Hoar or Senator Hale
to interject a remark into his speech; but
he reserved his bitterest words for Pres.
ident Cleveland, who he described con
temptupusly, as having been down or
his hunkers'' praying Spain to release
Sanguilly, also as "a sluggard sleeping
and snoring while Americans suffered -
Mr.. Morgan was on the floor over ar
hour. After he resumed his seat, the bit.
of IT, there was witty passage between
Senator'S Daniel, dem, of Virginia, and
Gray dem, of Delaware. When the
former used the Spanish word incomuni.
cado. Mr.. Gray assumed ignorance of its
meaning, and said he did not talk Spanish
With pleasant and gracious smile MIR
Daniel excused himself, and said that nc
thought that the senator from Delaware
had just been talking very good Spanish
This polite rctort with its unexpressed
but well understood meaning) provoked
an outburst of laughter on the floor and
in the galleries, which were crowded all
the day.
In the pleasanter turn which the discus
sion had thus taken, the Cuban question
was permitted to subside, and the actual
consideration of the Indian appropriation
bill was resumed.
The bill had not been passed when, al
6 O'clock. a recess was taken until 73
o'clock.
The first twenty minutes of the evening
session were devoted TO private pension
bills, thirty-four being disposed of-onC
of these granting a pension Of $50 per
month to Maj. Gen. Cassius M Clay
A resolution was adopted requesting the
House TO return the Senate bill donating
to the Daughters of the American Rev.
olution site in the Washington mon
ument grounds for the erection of me
mortal museum.
The Indian appropriation bill was then
passed and the postofiice appropriation
bill taken up. II was laid aside, however
and the House bill was passed authoriz-
ing the territories to fund their indebted
ness at a lower rate Of interest.
Mr.. Quay, rep of Pennsylvania, gave
notice that tomorrow he would call up
the bill to forbid the sale of liquor in
the capitol; and Mr.. Hll gave notice
(sotto voce) that he would oppose il.
AT 1l:40 o'clock the Senate adjourned
until tomorrow.
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in the United States, the doctors agree, is