The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27


flag, when that last remnant of despotic
shores"
| Inc senator spoke at some length on
the points of international law in
vowed, and closed as follows:
| These things the United States of
America can constitutionally and law
! July 40. Let us do them now. Let us
d1spatch the mightiest battleship of the
ner in the harbor of Havana There her
| trowning guns may disturb the spirits of
tyranny by night and by day; her shining
stars may cheer the hearts of those who
are struggling to be free"
Inc gallery broke into applause at the
closing reference to battleship, but the
presiding officer quickly checked the
demonstration.
While Mr.. Thurston spoke the galleries
had filled to overlooking, and crowds
were at the entrances awaiting an oppor-
tunity to get in.
Mr.. Elkins of West Virginia followed
in speech urging that the senate should
not act precipitately, but should await
the inquiry to be made officially. There
was no Cuban government to recognize,
he asserted He derided the statement
of Mr.. Mason that Cuban babies were
taxed at birth and brides taxed at the
altar.
what becomes of the grown people?'
he asked the senator, caustically
Very few of them grow up" replied
Mr.. Mason. amid laughter.
MIR. Elkins went on to say that the pos
sibilities of war were being treated very
lightly. He added.
Spain can declare war and not fire a
single gun, and it will cost this nation
500. 100000"
The senator urged that the president
was as patriotic and as jealous to pro-
tect our interests as any senator. Why,
he asked, should the senate seek to Sc
care hasty action and place him in a
false position?
Mr.. White of California opposed the
resolution and was led into several anus
ing exchanges with the Michigander. He
argued that recognition was exclusively
an executive function. He said that the
recognition of the ,Cubans as belligerents
would in no way relieve them from the
obligations of the neutrality laws. The
senator said the real object of this reso-
luton was to bring about war with
Spain.
Mr.. Hawley of Connecticut spoke
briefly on the ACCESSIBILITY of conservative
action at time of serious emergency.
I1e closed at 10 p. M, and the voting
began.
The pending question was on the Hale
motion to refer the Cuban resolution to
the committee on foreign relations.
The vote was followed with interest by
| the crowd in the galleries. Senators
| who had taken leading parts in the move
limentS moved hurriedly about the cham
Der marshalling their forces. FL.
| The Hale motion to refer was defeated
by the decisive vote of 10 yeas to 81 nays,
as follows:
Yeas--Allison, Burrows, Caffery, Davis,
Fairbanks, Gear, Hale, Hanna, Hans
brough, Hawley, Hoar, Mcbride, Per-
kins, Shoup, Spooner, Wellington, Wei
fore, White, Wilson-19.
Nays-Bacon, Baker, Bale, Berry, But
Ter, Cannon. Carter, Chandler, Chiffon,
ris of Kansas, Heitfeld, Jones of Arkan-
sas. Kyle, Mantle, Mason, Mills, Nor
gan, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus Pritchard,
Rawlins, Roach, Stewart, Thurston, I'LL
man, Turner, Walthall, Warren-34.
A fume of excitement ran through the
gallery when the vice president, in calm
tones, announced the defeat of the nio-
ton to refer adding that the question
now was on the adoption of the resolu-
Ition.
1t seemed likely that a final vote would
| the floor for his first speech in the senate
He was glad, he said, to observe that
there was no difference among the sena-
| tors in regard to their desire for freedom
in Cuba. All were anxious to see lib
erty established in the desoate island.
The most desirable course to pursue, he
said, was to tender the good offices of
the United States in the cause of peace
and the ultimate independence of the
island. Referring to the st. Louis plat
form, Mr.. Fairbanks said he fairly re-
pudiated the Interpretation of Mr..
ThurstOn on the Cuban resolution adopt
ed at st. Louis. The platform was for
the exercise of the good offices of the
United States; the pending resolution
was for recognition of Cuban belliger-
ency. The senator spoke of the misery
and want prevailing in this country. The
manufacturers were alike Disconnected
They were not suffering from Weyler,
hut from the delays of the tariff. pass
the tariff" was their cry.
Mr.. Fairbanks then offered the follow
ing substitute for the pending Morgan
resolution:
Resolved, That the congress of the
United States views with deep solcitude
the deplorable 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 friendly spirit, ten
der the good offices of the United States
to Spain to the end that blOodshed may
cease and that honorable and permanent
peace may be established in the island Of
Cuba, and, further, that the president, in
spirit of amity, tender the good Offices
of the United States to Spain in an en-
deavor to secure the independence of
Cuna upon terms alike honorable and just
to all concerned. And if the president
shall be unable, by such friendly inter-
cession. TO secure to the independence of
Cuba within a reasonable time, he shall
communicate the facts to congress, with
his recommendations thereon"
Mr.. Gallery of Louisiana said the fate
of this substitute was plain, in view of
the vote just taken. He spoke of the
unusual course on which the senate was
embarking, setting aside all precedents
in the consideration i'll committee in
order to force it through the senate. In
fammatory statements emanating largely
from the Cuban junta were the basis on
which the senate was asked to act Mr..
Caffery entered his vigorous protest
against this course.
Mr.. Morgan then moved to lay on the
ia BILE the Fairbanks substitute.
A yea and nay vote was taken on this
motion, as follows: