New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-21
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CUBA'S DAY IN CONGRESS.
ACTION BY BOTH HOUSES.
TIE MORGAN BELLIGERENCY REsoLU-
TIoN PASSED BY THE SENATE
MONEY FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMERICANA
VOTED BY THE HoUsE-LoNG AND Ex-
CITING STRUGGLES OVER BOTH
fBY TELEGRArH TO TIE rRrBrNE.

Washington, May 20-The different tempers
and instincts Of the two houses Of Congress. 20
often illustrated in recent years were strikingly
emphasized again this afternoon. when In one
branch Mr.. Morgan's programme OF recognizing
the begerent rights OF the Cuban insurgents
triumphed signay, while in the other 1t suffered
distinct and serious reverse The long-de-
bated resolution OF the Alabama Senator came
at last 70 a vote In the "deliberative branch"
and, as was 10 be expected after the develop
ments OF Tuesday and Wednesday. its passage
was opposed only by a feeble though determined
minority. In the House. however, an effort to
attach the Morgan declaration as a rider to
the appropriation of $4,000 for the relief Of
destitute Americans in Cuba was beaten by q
decisive vote
HOW PARTY LINES WERE DRAWN.
The final division in the Senate on the ques.
tion Of recognizing the belligerency OF the in.
surgent forces showed forty-one Senator's re-
corded In favor Of declaring that a state of pub
lie war exists In the island, and only fourteen
mustered In opposition to such a policy. OF the
forty-one votes cast In support of the Morgan
resolution, twenty were given by Democrats.
fifteen by Republicans four by Populists and
! two by Svertes. All but two Of the fourteen
votes in opposition were cast by Republicans.
Messrs. Caffery. OF louisiana and White. Of
| California-one Sound Money and the other a
free-sver-coinage Democrat-separating from
the solid opposition ranks and siding with the
! Republican minority in its efforts 10 prevent
! the Administrations hand in Cuba being
forced" by Congressional interference with the
| exercise of purely executive functions.
The Republican side OF the Senate divided al
most equally the question OF propriety and
expediency involved in the passage of the Nor
gan resolution. The Republicans who favored
the attempt to recognize belligcrency by leSis-
lation were Messrs. Baker OF Kansas; Carter. Of
Montana: Chandler and Gallinger Of New
Hampshire Clark, Of Wyoming; Cullom AMI
Mason. Of Illinois; Davis and Nelson OF MIN
nesota Deboe. Of Kentucky; Foraker, of Ohio
Hansbrough. OF North Dakota; Pritchard OF
| North Carolina: Shoup. of Idaho, and Thurston
OF Nebraska-nfteen in all
Those who opposed the Morgan resolution as
an invasion of the Executives prerogatives and
for other were Messrs Allison and
Gear. OF Iowa: Burrows of Michigan; Fair
banks OF Indiana; Hale, OF Maine; Hanna Of
Ohio: Hoar. of Massachusetts,; Hawley OF Con-
necticut; Spooner. Of Wisconsin, and Wetmore,
! Of Rhode Isand-twelve in all. Senators Platt
and Murphy. of New-York, were both absent,
and the attitude Of neither toward the resolution
disclosed.
| FEATURES OF THE DEBATE
To-day's struggle in the Senate can, under the
circumstances, scarcely be called a partisan or
factional one, nor can the final vote be said to
show any particular partisan cleavages. Yet
party politics could not be kept entirely out Of
the latter stages Of the controversy. and de-
| cided political tinge was given TO Mr.. Morgans
triumph by the declaration of Mr.. German that
almost solid Democratic support Of the resolu-
ton Of recognition was due to the apparent fall
| ure OF the Administration TO meet by energetic
measures the exigencies Of the present situation
, in Cuba.
Mr. Spooner. Of Wisconsin, In an eloquent and
! effective speech also deprecated the passage OF
the resolution as an unfair attempt on the part
| NJ the Senate 10 compel the President to declare
by assent or dissent TO the Morgan declaration
his policy In Cuba before that policy had had q
chance to develop itself on clear and intelligent
| lines So fierce. however, was the pro-Cuban
| sentiment in the body. famed into flame by tho
recent disclosures Of Mr. Morgan and Mr. For
aker. that no appeals, however reasonable or
we'll grounded could stay the pressure for some
sort of a declaration supposedly friendly to the
insurgents and inimcal to Spain
The debate which preceded the vote lacked
| something of the dramatic interest and intensity
which marked the discussions of yesterday and
| the day before. II made notable, however.
| by several lively passages between the friends
and opponents Of the Morgan programme. by
| succinct attack on the resolution from Mr.. El'
kins. defence of the Cuban cause from Mr..
Thurston, and a wholly admirable and mastery
assertion Of the Executives prerogative to ex-
tend or withhold belligerent recognition from
| Mr. Spooner who thus signalized his welcome
return to the arena of debate in the Senate
Mr. Morgans resolution now goes to the
House Of Representatives. where Its fate Is for
the present shrouded in obscurity. The resoiI-
ton as passed reads as follows:
| Resolved etc. That a condition OF publ, waf
| exists between the Government OF spain and the
e;overnment proclaimed and for some time main:
tSned tam the Sy United states Of America shall maintain
a strict neutrality between the contendins parties
| according 10 each all the rights OF beligerents IN
| the ports and territory of the United States
THE STRUGGLE IN THE HOUSE.
An expectation that the attempt to pass the
toint resolution TO appropriate money for the
relief Of sick and destitute American citizens In
| cuha would result In some exceedingly lively
- not riotous proceedings in the House OF Repre-
| ssntatives to-day filled all the public galleries
| with spectators and drew a larger attendance
| Of members than usual The expectation was
not realized but the performances OF the Demo-
Populist minority were such as 10 JUSTIFY the
| suspicion that Bailey and his followers regard
the people Of the United States as exceedingly
gu,lible and indeed as half-wtted Certainly
a game Of political thmblerig more transparent
or played in a more awkward and bunglng
manner than the one played by Bailey and his
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Simpson. Bland. wheeler
| and the rest-was never witnessed In the House
of Representatives. where 80 many Democratic
| hunco games have been played In the past.
DEMO -PoPULIsT INsINCERITY
The curious thing about 1t was that they and
,beir followers seemed actually to feel convinced
that II they piled words high enough and shouted
loud enough people would believe that the cause
OF human liberty was In imminent peril at the
hands Of the Republican party, because the ma
jority in the House OF Representatives insisted
on bassing a resolution to meet an immediate
| nressing emergency which threatened the health
- H. a. hoS American cifizana