New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-26
CUBA'S DAY IN THE SENATE.
THE PRESIDENT DENOUNCED.
EXCITING DEBATE ON THE sANGUILY
RESOLUTION. ~.
AN INTENSELY BITTER FEELING AGAINST TN
ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY MANIFEsTED-MR.
SHERMAN DECLARES THAT THE RIGHTS
OF AMERICAN CITIZENS MUST BE
PROTECTED-THE RESOLUTION
FINALLY GOES OVER
WITHOUT ACTION.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBUSE.1

CUBAN policy, long looked AT aSkance by an I'M
patient public sentiment and now apparently
discredited beyond hope by its own diplomatic
agent in Havana, is likely to receive many hard
knocks in the two branches Of Congress during
the six days which yet remain Of President
Cleveland's tenure of power The Senate. at
least would be acquitted Of all human foible and
fraty II IL failed to its present opportunity
to vent upon the President and his Secret ry OF
State that sense Of injury which has been so stu
diously fostered by the State Departments
habtual attitude toward Congress. not only since
the Cuban question became live political issue.
but even from the earliest days of Secretary
Gresham's rule. The manifesto issued by Secre-
tary Olney Just before the Christmas holidays.
in which he rdiculed the Senate's pretensions 10
control direct this countrys policy in Cuba ny
recognizing either the belligerent rights or the
political independence Of the insurgents. has not
yet lost its sting and the deiberative branch OF
Congress would perhaps lack courage and self
respect if it did seize the first favorable op-
portunlty to counter a self-suficient and self
confident Administration. apparently convicted
Of weakness and error out Of its own mouth.
Such an opportunity the Senate is confident Il
has found In the aggravated failure of the Presi-
dent and Secretary Olney to obtain the release
of certain American citizens, held prisoners by
Spain in defiance Of manifest treaty rights Inc
cause Of one Of the prisoners. Sanguily' has peen
taken up with ardor and enthusiasm by the de-
Lucrative branch of Congress, and, backed ny
evidence of the ADMINISTRATORS lukewarmness
and hesitancy conveyed in the discontented
tbreats of Consul General Lee, Mr.. Olney's crit
ics have so far succeeded in putting his CUBAN
pollcv I'm a rather humiliatng and unenviabie
Iigbt The feryor of the Senates feeling can be
oaugad nv the fact that even at this hurried
stage of the session. when the great money bhls
usually absorb all attention, appropriation meas
ures however urgent and important 10 iocai III
forests have been thrust aside to allow the ois-
cussIon of a resolution which, even ii pdsseo'
CON have but a moral effect. but which never
.ho,ass strikes a direct and telling blow at the
,roroors of that do-nothing policy in cuba which
Tho Senate at least has regarded for months past
with increasing aversion and dlstrust'
WAR TALK INDUCED IN.
Tho five hours debate this afternoon on the
carguilv resolution was marked by much We
,,oort and passionate denunciation OF the Al
;ristration for its indifference to the rights OF
Americans held in durance, by the spanish civil
and military authorities. Mr.. Frye, Mt DANIEL
Mr. Teller and Mr. Mills We'd with each other IN
condemning policy which would let an a'ne'i-
can citizen, whether native-born or ha'uiaH@eu'
no tried or imprisoned in contravention OF treaty
rights and stipulatons; and eacn urgeu '"a'
,esort to force was not only justinaple' out oo-
ugatory. if diplomatic representations had iaieo
. ,oura an observance of the rights and i'm
r.unities guaranteed by American citizenship.
Mr. FRYE in an eloquent speech of five minutes
declared that if he could have MS way sluai-
- 90 American war vessels would already be
heading toward Havana Harbor while MIR.
Lodge pointed out that the dispatch of American
men of war to Cuban waters would neither Gre
ate a new precedent nor, under the crcum-
stances be Just ground o complaint on the part
of the Spanish Government. Mr.. Daniel alluded
TO Spain at one point in his speech as the I'M
speakable Turk of the Western Hemisphere
and described Spanish methods of warfare as
barbarous and intolerable
The opponents Of the resolution trled 10 GRIPPE
its force by suggesting that Sanguily's certhcate
of naturalzaticr had been fraudu!entiy op'aiheo'
ord Mr. Hale the chief defender Of Secretary
Clney's Cuban policy, limited very clearly 'ha'
,to state Department had informed the Foreign
Citations Committee of the Senate that san
cuilv,s release was about to be obtained through
grace from the Spanish Government. and that the
surporters of the resolution were therefore set
tirg no as a target mere man Of straw. Neither
Mr. Daniel nor any other member OF the For
agn Relations Committee would admit. however,
that such a message had been sent ty the Secre-
tarv of state to the Senate
Finally Senator White. Of California, started
in TO talk the Morgan resolution to death ne
held the floor until o'clock, when recess OF
two hours was taken. AS the attendance OF Sem
ators at the night session was small, and OBJ
struction was thereby made both safe and easy.
the supporters Of the resolution thought best TO
let It go until tomorrow and the Indian APP
preparation bill was again taken up.
II is doubtful whether vote can he had on the
resolution tomorrow, at any time before the
present session ends Even If II passes the SEN
ate il will encounter difficulties in the House IL
parsed by both branches IL will, Of course be
nullifed by the convenient process OF pNctet
veto.
THE DEBATE IN DETAIL
When the Senate met at ii a. m. there wee