The Portland daily press., 1897-05-18
STOPPED in HOUSE.
Proposed Aid For Americans Ii
Cuba.
RESOLUTION WENT THROUGH SEN
ATE In TWENTY MINUTES.

Mr.. Bailey In House Insisted On 1t Being
Considered With Belligerency Resolu-
tion-Republicans Objected andIt Went
Over.
| Washington, May 17.-The House con-
fronted the Cuban question today, made
party issue of it and adjourned without
taking any action.
| President McKinley's message recon-
mending an appropriation to relieve suf-
fering Americans in Cuba was received
without any demonstration, and on it's
heels Mr.. Hit, former chairman of the
| foreign affairs committee asked unani-
nous consent for consideration of bill to
appropriate $4,000 in response to the
Presidents request. Mr.. Bailey of Texas
asked for consent to consider in connec-
tion with the bill an amendment embody-
ing Senator Morgan's resolution for
recognition of the Cubans as belligerents.
Mr.. Dingley would not consent to con-
slider the amendment nor Mr.. Bailey to
consider the bill without the amendment,
SO for the time the question was side
tracked. Then the House devoted two
hours to the debate on the conference re-
port on the feature of the Indian appro
priation bill opening for settlement the
gilsonite lands on the Uncompah gre
Indian reservation in Utah, refused to
accept the compromise agreed on by the
conferees and asked for another confer
ence with the Senate on the bill.
| In the meantime the Senate resolution
practically identical with Mr.. Hits bill
had been sent to the House and Mr.. Hit
asked unanimous consent for, it's consider
alton. The deadlock between Mr.. Dingley
and Mr.. Bailey was reacted and while MIR.
Bailey was endeavoring to get consent for
| the consideration of the two Cuban
propositions together, Mr.. Dingley put
in motion to adjourn. This motion was
carried by a vote of 80 to II, thirteen
answering present. 1t was practically a
party alignment, only three Republicans,
Messrs. Cooper of Wisconsin, Linney Of
North Carolina and Marsh of Illinois,
voting against adjournment, and all the
Democrats and Populists, excepting Mr..
Baker of Illinois and the independent sill
verites voting the same way.
| Under the rule for bi-weekly sessions
recently adopted, the adjournment carries
the question over to Thursday.
| Washington May 17.-History repeated
itself in the House today. No sooner had
the journal of the last session been read
than Mr.. Simpson, Populist of Kansas,
and Mr.. Wheeler, Democrat of Alabama,
shouted objections.
Mr.. Wheeler was trying to repeat his
constitutional objection raised last week
amid the objections of several Republi.
cans when the Presidents secretary, Mr..
Pruden, appeared, with a large document
and announced "a message from the
President
Mr.. Wheeler continued to speak, how
ever, while the message lay on the Speak
er's desk
The Speaker ruled in response to the
objections that Mr.. Wheeler should be
heard and that gentleman spoke for
fifteen minutes. Most of the Democrats
and Populists voted against approving
the journal and Mr.. Simpson forced the
| Speaker to count quorum.
| Then the Presidents message on Cuba
was read at half past twelve The mem
bers on the floor and the large crowds fill
ing the galleries listened with profound
attention. There was faint ripple of
applause after the reading.
| Mr. Hit, former chairman of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs, at once intro
duced bill appropriating $50, 600 for food
and transportation for the Cubans. The
bill follows:
''Be it enacted, ETC., that the sum of
S50, 900, or so much thereof, as may be
necessary, be and the same is hereby ap-
propriated out of any money in the treas
rlry not otherwise appropriated for the re-
lief of destitute and suffering citizens of
the United States in the island of Cuba,
and for the transportation of American
citizens who are desirious of returning to
the United States and are without the
means to do so, such money to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Secre-
tary of State. Z"
The consideration of the bill was very
brief Mr.. Dingley, the Republican lead
er, and Mr.. Bailey, the Democratic, were
at once on their feet; Mr.. Bailey waived
aloft document. "I will not object to
consideration, he announced, Hif the
amendment which l hold can be offered -
''I will have to object to that Mr.
Dingley replied.
II hope there will be no objection, "
said Mr.. Bailey.
us there objections'' demanded the
Speaker
~ object" spoke up Mr.. Dingley.
Objection is made" the Speaker an
nounceu, land the gentleman from New
York presents q conference report on the
Indian appropriation BILL" This passage
consumed but minute. Members
crowded about Mr.. Bailey and learned
that the amendment he proposed to offer
embodied Senator Morgan's S resolution for
the recognition of the belligerency of the
Cubans.
The conference report on the Indian
bill recommended the compromise on the
Gilsonite lands OF the Uncompahgre In
dians in Utah, providing that the govern
ment retain title to the lands and they be
mined under regulations prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior, the govern
ment to receive q royalty of Is cents ton
on the gilsonite mined
! Opposition to the plan developed at
once. Mr.. Lacey, criticized on the ground
| that it did not apply to asphalt beds and
did not guard against the control of the