Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-25
The Ill Treatment Of Ameri can
Citizens Considered IN the
us. Senate To-day.
The Policy the British Govern
mentWiIl Fursac in Accord
With lis Allies.
Mr.. BRYAN TO BE sNuBBED

WAsHISGToN, ID. C,. Sebruary 25.--
vice President Stevenson. 70, day, lait
Pofore. the senate tho Cuban resolu-
tions, and Mr.. Allen, addressing the
senate, denounced SPAN as "a decay
ing monarchy. a blot on the map Of
tho world, and disgrace to civIliz
tion." MIR. Morgan spoke on the joint
resolution reported by the foreign
relations committee, IN refcrence to
Julio Snngnilly, the naturnlizod citizen
OF the United States. Mr.. Morgan
made statement Of the facts and cir
cumsthnces conRected with Sanguilly p
arrest, imprisonment and trial.
MIR. Aliens resolnfion was referred
to the committee on foreign relations,
and the joint resolution, as to Sanguilly,
obtained precedence. 1t was discussed
at length by Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Dam
ials, they denouncing Spanish methods
bitterly.
After the debate on the Cuban qnes-
tion, the joint resolution with regard
to the continued i'll treatment Of Amer
ican citizens in Cuba was reported to
the senate. The motion was agreed to
yeas, 40; nays, 27.
The senate committee on approprIa-
tions to-day finished the sundry civil
appropriation bill. The principal ad-
ditions are as follows: Omaha exposi-
ton, increased from S200. .000to S275,-
coo; sugar bouriy, to pay. balance of
s,'.se claims OF sugar producers updsr
the Mckinley act, $1,000, 600; Nicafa-
guam canal commission, for continuing
surveys and making plans for the en-
tire work OF construction, S150,000;
Pearl harbor, Hawaiian islands, for
improvement OF entrances, 1000;
Improving barbor at Oakland. Calf,
fcl continuing the appropriation under
the present limit. 100000 A para
graph was added, increasing the limit
of cost, authorizing the contract, to
$666,000 not more than % per cent.
to be expended any one year. The
president is to appoint three evil engi-
nesr., as the commission
Reductions fell haayiasg anon contin. |
uin/ the river aai haT59r in prove
meiiss. The bay o. HaEnoldt. ii Cali
fornir, was reduced treu $500 600 to
$500 600.
Tho serate COMMIT ee on foreign
relations, this morning, conside ed the
prop5siiion prop se&terday, in
stfncsing President Cleveland to de-
mand the immediate rcl ase Of Julio
SarsdiIly, the Americaa corhned in
Cul. prison, and reacasd the unanI-
nous conclusion chat the sepate will
wait no longer for Sp4ia b keep her
promises to Olney relative to San gully.
Iswas decided 10 insist upon the passage
of the resolution in opposition to the
appropriation measures and evei ything
else.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, d. c., February rs -
The statement Yves made on the fl Dor of
the house, to-day, upon the authority
OF prominent southern congressman,
that Consul General Fitzhugh Lee had
resigned. The congressman stated
that be had seen dispatch at the state
department and Secretary of State
Olney had requested Gen. Lee not 10
press his resignation until after the ex.
piratlon. Of 1.-the present administration.
An innocent,little two-line paragraph
in The Congressional Record, this
morning, stating the fact that, during
the reading of certain bill yesterday,
ssMr. Bryan entered the hall and was
loudly applauded by members on the.
democratic side,'' evoked from Mr..
Barrett, republican, Of Massachusetts,
Immediately after the reading Of the
Journal. the inquiry ss to whether or
not the truth OF history was correctly
represented by the statement. He
moved that it be stricken out Of the
permanent record.
ssThe motion is unnecessary |"
Speaker Thomas B. Reed stated, with |
emphasis; "the chair will direct the
omission of the words.''
The conference report. en- the agri-
cultural appropriation bill. was pres
ented and agreed to.