The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-07
The prncccdings.

washington, January b.-~lseSs IMAM n
score of senators were in the senate cham
Der when the session convened today
Mr. Cullom reported adversely from the
committee on foreign relations the bill to
grant $500 to the wife of exConsul Wal
Ter, the United States representative 10
Madagascar, pending an inquiry into tbs
case. and the bill was indefinitely post
poned
Mr.. Hale secured the adoption of reso-
luton directing the secretary OF state to
scnd to the senate statement as to the
action Of the president or the secretary of
state touching the recognition of any for
eign power as an independent government
and the corresponding action of other
branches of the United States government.
A.r. PetIgiew secured an agreement TO
a resolution calling on the secretary OF the
lnter.or tor a statement as 10 the amount
u a.Dsluies PAD ~ the .nion ana oe.itg...
iacA4C laiiiVaus 20 the facilic alail
Steamship line.
ri. Iah ~as then recognized for a speech
On his Iuban Resolution, Introduced yes
terday. concerning the condemnation OF
Ju4to San. ul4iy at Havana. AR. can re-
lerred TO the report from the state II -parl-
uent yesterday as TO the killing o. ,.a.Ies
Gown and said the report united many
impO tant features which would have dis-
closed lhat Consul General Lee believed
Gown had been tied to tree and chopped
to pieces
AS showing the facts in the case Mr..
Call read letter from a gentleman in
Havana who, Mr. Can said, would occupy
a responsible place as member OF one of
the legislative branches OF the government.
The name was withheld. He gave a graphic
a gfFtr. inn nj .e.f IN f'slH. r. -
at Havana IN company with Consul Gen
eral Lee. Access TO the fortress was Sc
cured with difficulty, II being opeu 10 out
siders only on Wednesdays and then after
twelve hours notice. The writer sad he
and General Lee we're escorted within the
prison, where eight or ten prisoners. some
Of them Americans. were brought out in a
circle. About them were Spanish soldiers
heavily armed. One OF them was a man
who had been with GOWN at the time OF
his capture The prisoner said the Span
iaida tiad him and GOWN together. GOV n
attempted 30 show his United States Cit
zonshlp papers and his credentials as Il
newspaper correspondent, but the Spanish
commander struck them from his hand and
turned GOWN over " the cavalry. while the
other prisoners were sent 10 the CRbInss
fortress The writer stated also that from
other reliable sources it was learned GOWN
had been subsequently tied 10 tree and
! chopped to pieces
Julio sansuilly was another of the pris-
oners seen during this visit to the fortress
| The writer described him as an old man
whoie hair had turned gray and who APP
peared TO be over GO years old Sangulily
| told a pathetic story 10 the visitors as to
| the injustice OF his trial and conviction
and begged that the United States inyesti-
| gate the case with view OF establishing
| that he was prosecuted for what he might
have done and not for what he had done.
| Mr. Cal again stated that this latter
came from n promiu mt public man OF The
United States, a Northern man and re-
| publican, who had been highly honorei in
| This country and would soon return 10 d
| high public place.
After reading other letters reciting the
cruel methods employed in Spanish prisons.
, MIR. Call said that these prisons were STAIN
ed with the blood Of American citizeas. II
needed but an Investigation 10 unmasS the
extent Of the butohery, he said
The senator asserted that nation which
| failed TO protect its citizens Justly de-
served the execration OF the ci7ilized woriu'