The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-06
JINGOISM AGAIN.
Senator Call Howling and
Raging Over Gown and
Sanguil1y.
RELEASE DEMANDED FROM SPAIN
Alleged Typical Cases Postal Law
"Reform" Considered in
the House.
RELEASE DEMANDED FROM SPAIN

Senate today the report of the Secretary
of the Navy in relation to the cost of
construction of armor plate was pre-
sented ana referred to. the Committee on
Naval Affairs.
An adverse report from the Committee
on Foreign Relations on the claim of
John S. Waller, United States Consul at
Madagascar, for damages by reason of
his arrest and Imprisonment was pre-
sented and indefinitely postponed
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Hale
(Rep.. Mo-, and agreed to, calling on
the Secretary Of State for q statement
e aa ae0n of St the
recognition of any foreign people Jr
power an as independent government; and
bbrariches Of the United States Govern
ment.
The resolutions offered yesterday bs
oondemnafon r n Of & 5uo N sSln0h sangoy . aa an
American citizen, by the Spanish authors
ties in Cuba, to perpetual imprisonment
IN Tas asfs tssn up m and apenng MT ca
marks Were directed, however. to the
case of Charles Gown. and on the report
waa 10 M ef
Mr.. Call discredited the statements of
the Spanish officers as TO Gown having
died of wounds received In battle and as
name he declined to give, but who was a
person of character, that Govin-a citizen
of the United States and who was in Cuba
as a newspaper reporter-had been arrest
ed, tied to q. tree, and cut in pieces with
machete5 by squad of cavalry as it rode
past. The statement, he said, had been
dictated by a person who stood high IN
the consideration of all who knew him,
who had received official recognition by
the. American people in the shape OF Off
ciaI promotion, and VINO had been, or
would be, a member of the Legislative
branch of the Government.
Reverting to the case of Sanguilly, MIR.
Call read from statement to the effect
that Sanguilly, also an American citizen,
had been guilty of no offense whatever,
and that nothing had been, or could be,
proved against him. There had been no
evidence of any completely of Sanguilly
with the. Insurgents, or of any purpose
These cases, Mr.. Call said. were
types of what was occurring to hundreds
of American citizens in CUBA. What
tives of Cuba? What matters it that
is Isl the right The Prisons II cabanas
prisons are Stained with the blood Of
careful Investigation Of the facts BY the
taken off this scene Of butcaery.'' =
Referring to the objections coming
from commercial bodies that interference
might lead to war Mr.. Cali asked
whether the god Of business was to be al
lowed to suppress the demands of hui
manfty. Lack of public spirit, he as
serted, was worse than danger of war.
try where there was no sense of patriot
ism and no national honor.
AS to the suggestion that European
powers would interfere on behalf OF
no danger of any such combination.
European statesmen would be restrained
by a consideration of the effect which
such a course would have on the masses
of their own people. 1t was very easy
to perceive that the sympathetic Of
mankind, and the sentiments of all Chris
Republic IN such q. struggle. But there
was no advocacy Of war in his proposi-
tions. There was no disrespect in them
to 1.-THE the Spanish G,lh, Government, whose
long period of Spanish decadence.
But there ceuld be no respect for a gov
ernment which failed to protect the lives
tacle was one that belittled the people
and the Government of the United States
in the consideration of the nations of the
world. The people of Florida. Mr.. Call
said, We're closely connected with the
people of Cuba, and there was a constant
intercourse between them. Many of those
Cubans were men of a high order of
intelligence, and had been men
there were but few native Cubans who
were not engaged IN the rebellion. San
gully happened to be one of those who
United States to release him and let nin
return to- the protection Of the United
States. Mr.. Call hoped that the ques-
led: but that the joint resolution de-
manding the immediate discharge of SAM
guilty would be passed without undue de-
At the close of Mr. Calls speech. which
occupied over an hour, the resolution de-
mandfrg Sarlguilly's immediate release
was referred to the Committee, on Foreign
Relations, Mr. Call stating that it had
been prepared by an American in Havana,
a man of high character.
After short executive session the doors
were again opened and legislative business
was resumed.
Rising to a question Of personal priv
ilege. Mr.. Grosvenor Rep., o. offered
resolutions calling upon the heads of de-
partments to explain why they had not
himself in the House on the goth OF May
last and adopted June s. asking certain
information regarding the operation of
The resolutions were adopted without
division
The House went into Committee of the
Whole, Mr.. Payne lRep., n. Y.) in the
to amend the postal laws, by excluding
from second-class matter sample copies
and serial novel publications.
Mr. Milliken (Re., MED and Mr.. Wanger
Rep., Pa.) opposed the bill.
The bill was further opposed by Messrs.
Tracy Rep., Me.l and Morse Rep.,
Mass.).
Mr Bingham q2ep., Pa.) closed the
general debate against the bill. He did
not believe that the Post Office Depart
ment should be maintained as money
making institution. The support of the
Service, with its usual deficit was a part
Of the policy of legislation which had
appropriated for educational and benevo-
lent objects more millions of dollars than
could now readily be computed.