The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-02
RESOLUTIONS OF
HUMANE IMPORT
Congress Engages in the Work OF
Charity.
ACTION TO RELIEVE THE STARVING
The Secretary of the Navy Instructed
to Place Vessels at the Disposal oi
Parties who Desire TO Contribute
Provisions to the Famine sufferers
in India.

Washington, April 1.-The proceed
ings in the senate today during the
hour of it's open session were OF
rather interesting character. III the
first place a joint resolution was IN
troduced and passed, authorizing the
secretary Of the navy to place u Nessel
of war and a chartered merchant Nessel
at the disposal of the collector OF the
port of New York for transporting con-
tItbutions of wheat. flour and corn 10
relieve the famlshing poor OF India. III
the brief discussion to which the meas
ure gave issue. Mr.. Stewart ot Ne
yada, EXPRESSED the idea that the peri
odiCal famines in India were ttifleS
compared to the evils caused by legis-
latiOn which had destroyed the value
of silver; and Mr.. Morgan. of Alabama
intirIated that he would Within "a fe"
days introduce similar measures for the
purpose Of taking supplies to the islands
Of Cuba, and of Crete 50 as to feed the
poor miserable Americans penneu up
in the villages and towns of Cuba, ana
the Cretans whom Great Britain and
the other powers were endeavoring by
starvation to force into submission TO
tyrannical outrage.
This episode was followed by the Of
fering of q, resolution by Mr.. Allen,
of Nebraska, on the subject of the re-
ported purpose of the Spanish govern
ment to try by drumhead court mar
tial and to shoot to death the Cuban
General Rivera recently wounded in
battle and captured. The resolution
declares 1t to be the duty of the United
States government to protest to the
Spanish government against such vi
ulatiun of the rules Of civilized warfare.
The resolution Went over till tomorrow
under an objection by Mr.. Hoar, of
Massachusetts. with the sarcastic re-
mark that he did not understand that
the power of life and death over per-
sons on either side of the contest in
Cuba had been committed to the United
States senate.
MIR. HOARS OPINION.
Mr.. Hoar added that If the two
houses of congress had not prodded and
goaded Spain by such absolutely futile
and ineffective resolutions, it would
have been much better for the cause of
Cuba and that such Incorporate utter.
ances had been infinitely mischievous.
There were three other Cuban trans
actions in the senat" before that body
went into executive session. These
were the resolution offered last Tues
day by Mr.. Morgan as to the letters Of
Maxine Gomez to Presidents Cleve-
land and Mckinley; the resolution Of
fered yesterday by Mr.. Mills. of Texas,
as to the obligations assumed by the
United States toward the people of
Cuba in asserting and maintaining the
right to prevent the acquisition of the
island 10y any European power; and a
joint resolution introduced today by
Mr.. Morgan extending beligerent rights
10 both the Spanish and the Cuban
governments in the ports and territory
Of the United States. The two first
were agreed to and the last went over
till Monday. Tie senate was in eXecu-
tive session from p. m. till j.15 when
1t adjourned TIL Monday.