The news & observer., 1897-02-27
Senator Morgan Draws a Pic
ture of the President.
DOWN ON HIS HuNKERS
PRAYING TO THE QUEEN OF
SPAIN TO RELEASE PRISONER.
PARDONED BY CABLE.
The Queen Acted Very Hastily After
Waiting Twenty -Four Months
What Does 1t Mean?


J Washington. Feb. 26-After the dra-
J matic Cuban debate in the Senate yester-
day the discussion to-day was compare
tively spiritless. The galleries were pack
ed however. in anticipation of interesting
DEVELOPMENTS, but there were no incidents
during the day that awakened more than
passing interest The Indian bill was con-
sidered up to 1 O'Clock, when for three
hours a general discussion OF the San
gully case and THE effect of the pardon
occurred.
Mr.. Frye said ait the outset that the
| Sanguilly resolution should be retired,
and it was useless TO waste powder in
making noise. Mr. Morgan secured the
adoption of another resolution calling for
information as to the imprisonment Of
George Washington Aguirre. Mr.. Nor
gan also reviewed the Sangullly case,
declaring that the action of the Senate
yesterday had warned SPAIN against a
collision with the United States and had
moved the Queen Regent to the unusual
expedient of a pardon by cable.
The Senator severely criticised the
President and the Secretary of State for
alleged inaetion ON this case.
Mr. Gray, of Delaware, asserted that
in urging the rights of American citizen
ship. He announced also the receipt of
the dispatch from General Lee stating
that Sanguily was released to-day.
Mr.. Lodge, Of Massachusetts, and Mr..
Call, of Florida, spoke on various phases
of Cuban atrocity. and Mr.. Hale, of
Maine, and Mr.. White, of California,
deprecated the Cuban agitation.
4 resolution by Mr. Call, calling ON the
President for information ON the death
of DR.. Ruiz in Cuba, went over until
tomorrow.
Mr. Call spoke of the case OF DIR. Ruiz,
reciting the revolving circumstances of
his death There were other cases, still
more startling he said, in the records Of
the State Department. Tt had reached
the point, Mr.. Call declared that these
poor prisoners. deserted by their own gov
ernment. were actually petiti0ning the
Queen of Great Britain to protect them.
He portrayed the Terrible scenes of
butchery of women, OF children, of young
girls. whose mutilated bodies were found
heaped up in pit"
Mr.. Morgan said if Sanguilly had been
parloned the Senate had no information
except through the newspapers, the exec
utive Department having vouchsafed no
information. He was not surprised that
the President should wish to conceal his
policy from the American people, but he
regretted that this should be the case.
Mr.. Morgan reviewed the prison career
of General Sanguilly, which he said was
nothing less than n martyrdom, and he
declared that the Senators who were OPP
posing the resolution, if their conduct here
was any indication Of their character,
would be willing TO consign this old man
to Ceuto without further effort in his be-
half. He quoted Consul General Lees
account of his visit to Sanguilly in prison
and took occasion in this connection to
eulogize him in strong terms as man of
courage and honor.
Mr.. Morgan said the Sanguilly case
had been reported on after it appeared
that there was no hope from the haltng
diplomatic negotiation. Amnesty had
been granted certain prisoners. But Mr..
Sanguilly did not receive the benefits Of
this amnesty. Why? Because he was a
citizen of the United States That was
the real motive always operating against
him. Speaking of the Sanguilly pardon,
Mr.. Morgan asserted that it could not be
possible the President knew of it. If he
did, said the Senator in mock earnestness,
he would be quick to notify the Senate
of that momentous result. But no, the
executive branch regarded Senators as
merely a set of eminent gentlemen whose
conclusions amounted to nothing, This
was the view openly stated by the Secre-
tary of State, and whispered into the ear
OF the Spanish Minister. These eminent
gentlemen might discuss affairs in their
debating society, but when it came to ac-
ON tho (trnof NJ
This was the executive view.
Mr.. Morgan declared that the Sanguilly
resolution was urged, we'll knowing that
''Spain has her advocates ON this floor, !"
prepared to defend her in amy emergency.
They were the first to learn from the
flash of the cable that Sanguilly was par
doned. A pardon by cable.
Why had the Queen acted so hastily
after twenty-three months of delay? 1t
was because she knew that she could
not stand against the action Of the Sen
ate. Spain had shrunk from the collis-
ION and the royal hand had hastily signed
this pardon.
Referring to the President, Mr.. Morgan
said: "Oh what welcome news was that
pardon to this President in our White
House, who has been down upon his
hunkers now for two years praying with
| Spain to release him. How joyous his
! honest and noble American heart must
be and in what wild transports of joy
must be his magnificent person when he
hears that after all by the combination
| between the crown of Spain and the Pres
ident of the United States they have now
| taken poor creature, and have at last
| dragged out of him a confession where
| they can escape the danger of paying
| damage and possibly have the liberty,
like the sluggard, of sleeping and snoring
while Americans suffer.
The Sanguilly resolution went to the
calendar by general consent, which dis
poses of it as a matter of present interest.
At O'Clock a recess was taken until
| 8, when work on the appropriation bills
continued.
INSURRECTION IN MANILA.
Madrid Feb 26--Adyices Teceiynd