Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON. May 20.
aTNATE

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galleries were occupied when the ses-
sion opened to-day, as the Morgan
resolution was not in order until 2
o'clock and there was little to draw the
crowds during the morning hour.
Chaplain Milburn referred in his
prayer to the report that Senator
Earle, Of South Carolina. lies at the
point of death and invoked his restora-
ton to health.
A letter from the German ambassa-
dor, relating to the differential duties
in the pending tariff bill, was received
from the Secretary of State and refer
red to the finance committee.
MIR. Hale called attention to the de-
lays in shipping relief supplies to India.
| He submitted q joint resolution recltlng
that 5000 tons of grain is now stored
in NewYork awaiting shipment and that
no American merchant ship is available
for the voyage. The resolution pro-
! vides for the American registry of the
two foreign built steamships, Massaspe-
que and Menantic, owned by Ameri-
cans, and the shipment ofthe relief sup
| plies In these ships under the flag OF
the United States.
MI. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
said the simplest remedy was to send
the relief supplies in foreign ships with
out naturalizing them.
Mr.. Perkins said American ships had
been secured on the Pacific coast to
| send relief to India and he thought
American ships should be secured on
| the Atlantic seaboard. The resolution
finally went over
At 1890 p. m. the Senate was about
to take up the calendar when Mr..
| Morgan unexpectedly asked that the
Cuban resolution be taken up without
waiting for its formal presentation at 2
o'clock. Mr.. Hale said there would
be no objection to this plan. The res.
| olution was then taken up and Mr..
| Thurston addressed the Senate in its
/ favor.
He said no republican can afford to
vote against this resolution because it
| was introduced by the democratic Sen
| ator from Alabama.
MIR. Morgan quickly disclaimed per-
sonsl authorship for the resolution, say
ing it was but a copy offered in the
Senate by Mr.. Sherman, now the first
! man in the republican party next to
| the President and Vice President. 1t
was therefore essentially republican in
It's origin.
"Peace in Cuba ?n exclaimed Senator
Thurston, resuming his speech. "1f
there is peace in Cuba it is the peace of
ravished women and starving children
and the paens of this peace are sung
, by the uncoffined dead"
Senator Thurston closed his Cuban
speech by declaring that the United
States should send her strongest bat
! tleship to Cuba, station her in the
harbor of Havana, where her frowning
guns might awe the spirit of tyranny
and revive hope in those struggling to
be free.
Senator Elkins followed in opposi-
ton to the resolution.
There was no Cuban government to
recognize, he asserted. If the recogni-
| ton was to be sent it would have to be
| delivered by General Miles with the
army behind him. He derided the
| statements of Mr.. Mason that Cuban
babies were taxed at birth and Cuban
brides taxed at the altar.
"What becomes of the grown people?"
he asked sarcastically.
Every few of them grow up" an
| swered Mr.. Mason amid laughter.
Mr.. Elkins said, "Spain can declare
war and not fire a gun and it will cost
\ thic nation S50O ono
Mr.. White argued that recognition
| was exclusively an executive act.
A motion to refer the resolution to
the committee on foreign relations wa
| defeated.
The next vote will be on the adOp-
ton of the resolution, which had not
been taken at Ada p, m,
HOUSE.
Interest in the Cuban question was
focused upon the House to-day. The
| spectators who had packed the Senate
| yesterday 1ocked over to the House gal
leries and the scene was that of a con-
gressional field day. Down in the arena
on the republican side more than half
of the chairs were occupied, many
members having returned to the city
in response to messages from the chair
| man of the caucus who had attempted
to muster a quorum of the ruling party.
There was a diversion in the begin
ming, furnished by Mr.. Simpson, who
demanded the reading of the full jour-
nal after it had been read in the usual
s%keletonized form, a demand which
under the rules the Speaker was COM
PEELED to crafty. Then Mr.. Simpson
made the point that it was stated in
the journal that certain bills were re-
ferred to committees, whereas no CON-
mittees had been appointed. Mr..
Simpson was silenced by the previous
question demanded aud sustained by
the republicans. /
The decks having been cleared, Mr..
Dalzell. fr1sn the committee on rules,
reported q rule for the the considera-
ton OF the Senate Cuban relief resolu
ton, the rule providing for q vote after
two hours debate.
MIR. Bailey thereupon endeavored to
secure recognition to present the views
of the minority of the committee, but
the Speaker recognized MIR. Dalzell to
demand the previous question. There
was q sharp thr~ee-cornered skirmish
between Speaker Reed and MIR. Dalzell
on one side and Mr.. Bailey on the
other, in the course of which Mr.. Bailey
remarked that he knew the republic
ans did not intend to give the
minority anv opDortunity to be