The record-union., 1897-02-14

lin He would leave the task of exco-
Rating the Supreme Court to the gen.
tleman from Tennessee, he said, but he
wanted him to remember that the ma
Jorlty of the members of that court
VINO held the law to be demonstrations
were of the political utilization of the
gentleman himself.
De Almond CD of Missouri in dis
cussing the adequacy of the Wilson
law, also criticised the Supreme Courts
decision, which he, as a lawyer, de-
clared was not above just criticism.
lie said no one imagined, when the law
was passed, that the income tax would
De declared unconstitutional.
He drifted into some comment on the
growing power of the judiciary and the
Executive, which led to some remarks
on the attitude of the Government to-
ward Cuba that produced some wild
outourst of applause from the members.
He spoke of the fact that the newspa-
pers and every sort Of information from
Cupa told of the heroic struggle Of that
body of devoted patriots for freedom.
Yet, said he, diplomacy prates of
autonomy; autonomy for the bird when
the snake is ready to strike; autonomy
for the lamb in the fangs of the wolf
autonomy when the maiden is at the
stake and the fagots are burning If
1t is right that we should interfere,
we should do so on the high ground
that freemen should aid freemen in
their struggle for freedom. We lured
these people on in this struggle. Every
breath that blew from these shores
taught them to win their own freedom
et, While American citizens are being
shot down and American property is
being destroyed, diplomacy talks of
autonomy. l had hoped this Admins
tration would respond TO the swelling
patriotism in this country, and l still
hope the incoming Administration will
do what this has failed to do, and that
there will be something after March
4th besides the talk of autonomy
What has become of the resolution
we passed expressing the sentiment of
Congress-" asked Grosvenor.
do not know" responded De Ar
mond. But l do know there is enough
patriotism in this body rising above
party to pass any measure that may be
submitted to it which will advance
Cuba's cause
In speaking of the hbels of the Three
Friends as a pirate, as a strange act
in the closing days of the nineteenth
century, he said: ''Tyrants banded
themselves together to drive back those
who attempted to escape the yoke, but
for this country to become party to
such doctrine was shameful"
He referred to the report that two
ladies had been stripped and searched
on board an American vessel by Span
ish officials as a barbarity and an out
rage that had not been paralleIed in
the most Infamous pages of history 1t
might be only newspaper report, but
ne placed more reliance in the reports
OF newspaper men who risked their
lives to get at the truth than the poor
miserable palaver called diplomacy"
Why does not this Government do
what you reject~as a people? A treaty
which permitted such an indignity to
ladies should be instantly abolished by
the smooth methods of the law or the
keen edge of the sword, it mattered lit
tie which"
AT o:2u p. m. the House adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
w Fh'oIlIANI L o4N,, tU. lO.-AL the
opening of the Senate to-day Senator
Perkins of California secured an i'm
mediate consideration of the joint reso-
luton directing that he Secretary of
the Navy employ naval vessel or
chartered ship to carry grain to the
famine-stricken people of India.
The resolution recites that famine and
plague are causing great distress and
the loss of thousands of lives in India
The famine can be in part stayed by
supplying the surplus products of other
localities to the distressed districts. and
many Western States have contributed
grain.
The resolution Therefore, directs that
the Secretary of the Navy furnish a
suitable naval vessel for the authorities
at San Francisco or charter a vessel of
300 to 5000 tons for the shipment of
contributions
An appropriation necessary for the