The record-union., 1897-05-21

| despotic authority is turned back to
| foreign shores
The Senator spoke at some length on
the points of international law involved,
and closed as follows:
| These things the United States of
America constitutionally and lawfully
can do. Let them now. Let us dis
patch the mightiest battleship of the
| Government to Cuba. Let us station
her in the harbor of Havana. There
her frowning guns may disturb the
spirit of tyranny by night, and by day
her shining stars may cheer the hearts
of those who are struggling to be free y
| The gallery broke into applause at
the closing reference to the battleship,
but the presiding officer quickly
checked the demonstration.
While Thurston spoke the galleries
| had filled to overfiowing, and crowds
were at the entrances awaiting an op-
portunity to get in.
| Elkins of West Virginia followed in
speech urging that the Senate should
not act in a precipitate manner, but
should await the inquiries now being
| made by the officials of the Govern
ment. He insisted that there was
nothing before the Senate to warrant
| action at this time. There was no
| Cuban Government to recognize, he as
serted. What was the Postoffice of
| its President, if the recognition is to
be sent to him?" asked Elkins ct
would have to be delivered by General
Miles, with the army behind him. as
serted the Senator. He derided the
statements of Mason that Cuban babies
We're taxed at birth and Cuban brides
taxed al the altar
| What becomes of the grown peo-
ple?" he asked, sarcastically.
| Very few Of them grow up" answer
ed Mason. amid laughter.
| Senator Elkins went on to say that
| the possibilities of war were being
treated very lightly. He added Spain
can declare war and not fire gun,
and it will cost this nation $500, ,000,-
| 600"
The Senator urged that the President
was as patriotic and as Jealous to
protect our interests as any Senator.
Why" he asked, should this Senate
| seek to coerce the President to action
| and place him in a false position?"
| White Of California opposed the reso-
luton and was led into several lively
and amusing exchanges with Chandler.
he argued that recognition was exclu-
sively an executive function. White
said the recognition of the Cubans as
belligerents would in no way relieve
| them from the obligations of the neu-
trality laws. The Senator said the real
object of this resolution was to bring
about war with Spain. 1t was easy, he
n ha hJ1c Of ~,
American people, but it should be re-
membered that true liberty was not to
be found on the battlefield
Hawley of Connecticut spoke briefly
| on the desirability of conservatism and
cautious action at q time of serious
emergency. He closed at $40 d. m.,
and the voting began.
The pending question was on the
Hale motion to refer the Cuban reso-
luton to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations. The vote was followed with
intense interest by the crowded gal
leries. Senators who had taken lead
ing parts in the debate moved hurried
ly about the chamber, marshaling their
forces. The Hale motion 20 refer was
defeated by the decisive vote of yeas
10, noes 81. as follows:
Yeas-Allison, Burrows, Caffery, Da-
Wis, Fairbanks, Gear, Hale, Hanna,
Hansbrough, Hawley, Hoar, Mcbride,
Perkins, Shoup, Spooner, Wellington,
Wetmore, White, Wilson-19
Nays-Bacon, Baker, Bate, Berry.
Butler, Cannon, Carter, Chandler. Chill
ton, Clark, Cockerell, Daniel, Gallinger,
Harris Of Kansas. Heitfeldt, Jones of
Arkansas, Kyle, Mantle, Mason, Nor
gan, Mills, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus,
Pritchard, Rawlns, Roach, Stewart,
Thurston, Tillman. Turner, Turpie,
Walthall, Warren-34
A hum of excitement ran through the
galleries as the Vice-President, in calm
tones, announced the defeat of the mo-
ton to refer adding that the question
was now on the adoption of the reso-
luton.
1t seemed likely that a final vote
would be taken at once, but Fairbanks
took the floor for his first speech in
the Senate. He was glad, he said, to
observe that there was no difference
among Senators in regard TO their de-
sire for freedom in Cuba. All were
anxious to see liberty established on
the desolate island. The most desirable
course to pursue, he said, was to ten
der the good offices of the United States
in the cause of peace and the ultimate
independence of the island.
Referring to the st. Louis platform,
Fairbanks said he fairly repudiated the
Interpretation of Thurston on the Gu
ban resolution adopted at st. Louis.
The platform was for the exercise of
the good offices of the United States,
the pending resolution was for a recog-
milton of Cuban belligenency.
The Senator spoke of the misery and
want prevailing in the country The
manufacturers were alike discouraged.
They We're not suffering from Weyler,
but from the delays of the tariff Pass
the tariff" was the cry.
Fairbanks then offered the following
substitute for the pending Morgan
resolution:
Resolved, That the Congress of the
United States views with deep solicitude
the deplorabe civil strife in the island of
Cuba, which is so destructive to life and
property, and which is embarrassing and
destroying the commerce of the United
States with Cuba. The highest motives
of humanity and public interest require
the immediate cessation of hostilities
and the establishment of peace, and that
the President shall, in a friendly spirit
tender the good offices of the United States
to SPAIN to the end that bloodshed shall
speedily stop, and that honorable and
permanent peace may be established in
| the island of Cuba: and further, that the
! President, in a spirit of amity. tender
the good offices of the United States to
Spain in an endeavor to secure the in
dependence of Cuba upon terms alike