The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-21
CUBA UP IN THE House
Resolution Is Passed for the Re-
lief of Americans.
SHARP THREE. SIDED sKIRMIsH.

Bailey of Texas Says the Republicans Do
Not Intend to Give the Minority an OPP
portunity To BE Heard and Is Applauded
by the Galleries-Death of Horatio King,
Postmaster General Under President Blu
chanan-CapitaI News Notes.
Washington, May 21.-Interest in the
Cuban question was focused upon the
house Thursday. The spectators who
had packed the senate Wednesday
hocked over to the house galleries, and
the scene was that of a congressional
field day. Down in the arena the chairs
on the Republican side were, more than
half of them, occupied, many members
having returned to the city in response
TO messages from the chairman of the
caucus, who had attempted to muster
quorum of the ruling party. There
was a diversion in the beginning fur
nished by Simpson of Kansas, who de-
manded the reading of the full journal
after it had bsen read in the usual skel-
etonized form, demand which, under
the rules the speaker was compelled t.
crafty. Then Simpson made the point
that 1t was stated in the journal that
tees, whereas no committees had been
appointed. Simpson was silenced by
the previous question demanded and
sustained by the Republicans.
Three -Cornered Skirmish.
The decks having been cleared, Dali
cell. from the committee on rules, re-
| ported a rule for the consideration of
| the senate Cuban relief resolution, the
f1tln aft fxtrT
| hours debate. Bailey thereupon en-
| deavored to secure recognition to pres
| ent the views of the minority of the
| committee, but the speaker recognized
| Dalzell to demand the previous ques-
| ton. There was a sharp three-cornered
| skirmsh between Speaker Reed and
Dalzell on one side and Bailey on the
other in the course of which Bailey re-
marked that he knew the Republicans
did not intend to give the minority any
opportunity to be heard, but advised
them to carry out their programme with
some degree of decency, whereupon he
was applauded by the galleries. Simp-
I son shouted Don't ask for decency
! from that side
The proposition which Bailey was at
tempting to present was a substitute
| rule for recognition of the belligerency
| of the insurgents which is now before
the senate after the appropriation for
relief had been disposed of.
Hit Replies to Bailey.
J Hit, replying to Bailey in a speech on
J the Cuban relief measure, stated that
the object of Bailey was to obtain po-
litical advantage. The purpose of the
! Republicans in power Hit said, was to
| secure peace in Cuba with independ-
ence. At the close of the Cuban debate
! on the special order in the house Bailey
| offered his motion to recommit with in
| structions to report both resolutions to-
gether. This being declared out of or
J der an appeal was taken followed by a
! motion to table the appeal, on which
! a roll call was had. The Republicans
! voted solidly for tabling and it was car
! ried.
The house unanimously passed the
Cuban relief resolution appropriating
s5O,OOO for food and supplies.
Cuba i'm the Senate.
Only the front rows in the senate gall
leries were occupied when the session
opened Thursday in the belief that the
Morgan resolution would not come up
until o'clock, but at 1880, after a
brief debate on the lack of facilities for
shipping relief supplies to India from
New York, at the request of Morgan the
resolution was taken up and Thurston
addressed the senate. Thurston finished
his Cuban speech by declaring that the
United States should send her strongest
battleship to Cuba, station her In the
harbor of Havana, where her frowning
guns might awe the spirit Of tyranny
and revive hope in those struggling to
be free Elkins followed in opposition
to the resolution.
The motion to refer the Morgan reso-
luton to the foreign relations commit
tee was lost. The vote was-yeas 10,
nays "a.