Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-02

newspaper at home, it would have been
 much better for the cause of Cuba. The incorporate utterarces in this and the other house of congress have been in- | finftely mischievous to the cause of free
 dom in Cuba. object to the present con- | sideration of the resolution
 | As a result of the objection the reso- l lution went over until tomorrow.
 | The resolution offered by MT. Morgan 1 last Tuesday in relation to the letters | from the Cuban general Maxine Gomez, | to President Cleveland and President
 | Mckinley, was taken up and agreed to. l So likewise the resolution offered yes terday by MT. Mills, democrat, of Texas, 1 instructing the committee on foreign re-
 l lations to. inquire what, if any, obliga-
 l tions to the United States have assumed | toward the people of Cuba by asserting
 l and maintaining the right to prevent the l acquisition of that island by any Euro
 :! pean power and compelling its people l to, remain subject to the dominion of 1 Spain
 l The Cuban question was again brought l up by MT. Morgan, who introduced l joint resolution declaring that a condi- 1 tion of public war exists between the government of Spain and the government 1 established and maintained by force of l arms by the people of Cuba; and that | the United States will maintain state l of neutrality between the contending l powers, according to each all the rights l of belligerents in the ports and territory l of the United States. MT. Morgan said l he did not wish to have the joint resolu- 1 tion referred to the committee on foreign | relations and that he would ask the sen- l ate to take action on it tomorrow.
 It differed from the resolution adopted 1 by the senate year ago, inasmuch as
 l that was a concurrent resolution, while
 this was a joint resolution, in which con-
 gress would exercise it's legislative func- 1 tions.
 The senate then at D. m., went into
 1 executive session on the arbitration treaty, and at 5:15 adjourned until Mon- | day.
 A Not content with it's work yesterday the senate still further >emasculated the gen. | eral treaty of arbitration with Great | Britain by striking out the eighth sec ton entirely and adopting an amend | ment offered by Mir. Bacon, which is in- l tended to protect the southern states | from any claim based upon securities is- sued during the reconstruction period. | Several other minor amendments were | offered, but rejected, with the exception | of one or two immaterial changes in the 1 verbiagei of the text.
 | The debate today was devoted almost entirely to MT. Bacon's amendment. that |. senator making an elaborate speech in | support of his suggestion. It was an- l tagnoized in an exhaustive speech by MT. | Lindsay who discussed the legal phase l Ol iiie-tdSt dlu dISO Dy MT dldy. 1 When the vote was taken the amend ment prevailed by a majority of five votes. It adds at the end of article four of the treaty proviso reading as fol- | lows:
 ,"No claims of a citizen of Great Brit
 ain against state or territory of the United States shall be subject of arbi- tration under this treaty"
 MT. Butler sought to amend the first article, wherein it is agreed that all t1,,k fas1 Nq 1.1-A Axn+ 1ry1 1 plomatic negotiations are to be arbitrated by adding to the words diplomatic ne- gotiations" the words Tor by convention or treaty" his idea being that this was essential to the full settlement of contro- verted questions. This was voted down. In like manner the senate voted down MT, Morgan's motion to strike out arti- cle seven, which governs objections that may be made to the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal.
 MT. Hansbrough withdrew his reSolu- tion, mentioned in these despatches last night, for the reason that the amend ments of Senator Foraker providing for a separate court for each case submitted, met contention that the ratification of the treaty would be unconstitutional because of the fixed and permanent char acter of the court contemplated. On motion of MT. Rawlins article eight which provides that the president may appoint a judicial officer of state or ter Il illOTy as d ultiHDSi ol tHc Couib III SdSeo in which such state or territory might be concerned, was stricken out alto gether.
 The remainder of the afternoon was spent in laying upon the table immaterial amendments which were offered almost without number.
 The treaty is new beyond the amend ment stage and when the senate takes the final vote 1t will be upon the instru- ment as now constructed
 1 ,aF,f fc hat by MT Hoar and agreed to yesterday. 1t relates to article 1, and the precise lan- guage is: The high contracting parties agree to submit to arbitration, in ac- c"mm nm eaNdf mbBf tthad cordance with the provisions, and sub ject to the limitations of this treaty, all questions in difference between them which they may fail to adjust by diplo- matic negotiations but no difference shall be submitted under this treaty which in the judgment of either power, material ly affects it's honor, the integrity of it's territory, or it's foreign or domestic poli- cy Nor shall the question be submitted whether any treaty, once existing, con- tinuc in force;
 Provided, that the agreement to sub Init with its formulations. shall in every case before it becomes final. be commu- nicated by the president of the United States to the senate with his approval and be -eoncurred in by two-thfrds of the senators present. and shall also be approved by her majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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