The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-21
THE MORGAN DISSOLUTION.

The action of the senate in refusing
to refer the Morgan resolution to the
committee on foreign relations puts a
really serious phase on the Cuban
question, the most serious it has Yet
assumed. The indications are that the
house will be hostile to the senate on
the resolution. If the senate was justi-
fed in acting without full official in
formation, the house was equally JUS
titled in refusing to act without it.
Representative Hit fully offset Sena-
lar to state that he did rot speak for
the administration, though it was plain
he was fully in accord with the admin
istratioQ and fully advised as to what
it was doing regarding Cuban mat
tiers.
What are the aims and purposes of
the administration in this regard They
are probably only known to the presi-
dent and his advisers, and they may
or may not be developed at an early
date. The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Times-Herald sent a
dispatch to his paper under date Of the
10Th inst. in which he said:
Cuba is to be a dependency of the
United States.
1t is to be acquired, peacefully if pos
sible, during the Mckinley administra-
ton.
This is the real, the sensational sig
nificance of the message which the
president will send to congress tomor-
row or the next day concerning Cuban
affairs.
The presidents message will deal
solely with the suffering OF American
citizens in Cuba and the necessity
which exists for affording them relief.
Apparently the only purpose of this
message is to call the attention of con-
greSS to the unfortunate situation of
our subjects in the island and 10 ask
for an appropriation, TO be expended
under the direction of the president
for providing them with food and medi-
cines
But this is the nominal purpose of
the message. Behind it lies an inten-
ton which, if executed, viii change TO
a most momentous degree the tradi-
tional policy of this government 1t is
a determination TO annex both Hawaii
and Cuba, to strengthen our strategic
outposts, to go out to the sea for an
extension of our jurisdiction, our COM
merce, OUT empire.
All this was double loaded and given
unusual prominence. The correspond
ent was right in his demonstrations
regarding the presidents message, but
is he right as TO his other conjectures?
No special Importance would usually
be given such correspondence by the
public but in the present instance it
comes from q usually very we'll in
formed correspondent and is to a paper
that is understood to represent the adj
ministration in the west, which is at
least a staunch supporter Of the p1esi-
dent and that has the reputation of
being in closer touch with the president
than almost any other paper in the
country. All this makes it exceedingly
interesting.
The Cuban question is TO the fore
now more prominently than any other
and temporarily overshadows that of
the tariff. But if the country is to have
trouble with Spain or any other coun-
try congress should provide it with
ample revenue before doing anything.
Whether this Morgan resolution is go
ing TO become a serious business none
can say at present. 1t will almost GER
tainly have the effect to prolong the
extra session of congress. which in turn
means delay in accomplishing the OBJ
iect for which il was convened.