The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-25
CUBAN RESOLUTION KILLED
SENATOB MIRIGOLD'S WORDS or
SYMPATHY.

"Kindness Makes the Rough Places in
Life Smooth"-The Resolution Was De-
feated by "a Large Majority, Only Two
Votes i'll Favor of It-Senators Warner,
Lee and Converse Oppose 1t.
Representative Neary's Cuban resolu-
tion, which has so persstently clung to
life through all the vicissitudes which
have from time to time beset it, was
killed, and, if straws indicate which
way the wind blows. buried yesterday
morning in the senate
The defeat of the resolution was
brought about under the leadership of
Senator Warner of the Nineteenth ris-
trict. The first step toward the end
was taken when Senator Warner, who
was appointed by the senate last week
to confer with the house committee so
that a compromise might be effected,
reported that he had found the COM
mittee from the lower branch firmly
grounded in it's views. and that he had
remained as firm as a rock.
Senator Warner then moved that the
senate adhere to it's former action re-
specting the resolution.
Senator Marigold said that it was not
often that he found that it was his duty
to disagree with the senator from the
Nineteenth district. He knew that the
passage of the resolution would not
make the bloody campaign now being
Waged in Cuba one day less. But it
was the expression of sympathy for the
American citizens now languishing in
the Spanish prisons that he wished to
go on record as favoring. No man
could read the accounts of what is go
ing on in Cuba without feeling his
blood boil. The matter was one which
affected the public. .
Senator Marigold reminded the sena-
tor from the Nineteenth district that
it was only a few weeks since he stood
in his place in the senate and urged the
passage of a resolution memoralizing
the representatives in congress to urge
the passage of the arbitration treaty.
Would he not extend this message of
sympathy to the suffering Cubans?
Senator Marigold said that a gentle
man who had spent some time in Cuba
had told him that to be known as an
American citizen there was to be treat
ed with disrespect. 1t was not out of
the way to pass this resolution.
Senator Warner replied to the speech
made by the senator from the Fifteenth
district. He said: Just a word in re-
ply to the senator. This is not a reso-
luton of sympathy to American citi-
zens. ! would go as far as any mem
ber of this body to relieve the suffer-
ings of the American citizens Of Cuba,
ing for their liberty. Were l ready to
vote to advance against the Spanish
authorities and wrest from them the is
land of Cuba, would word this resolu-
ton in the strongest words the English
language is capable Of"
Sena tor Woodruff supported the reso-
luton. He wanted to go on record as
one willing to extend to a suffering
people fighting for liberty sympathet-
ic word. More than this, he wished
to be known at all times as the friend
of popular elf-government. One half
of the states in the union have passed
similar resolutions. He knew that one
senator at least from this state was in
favor of doing all that he could to make
life more agreeable to the Cubans. IT
was right that the general assembly of
his state should back him up.
Senator Lee spoke against the adop-
ton of the resolution, as did Senator
Herman, who said that he could see no
good the passage of the resolution
would accomplish.
Senator Converse was of opinion that
such sentiments as those expressed in
the resolution smacked of buncombe.
While he yielded to no man in his feel
ing of sympathy for the Cubans, he
could not vote for the resolution, and
he knew that his constituents would
back him up.
Senator Marigold said that these acts
of sympathy smoothed the rough places
in life. He reminded the senator from
the Twenty fourth district that his ac-
ton on Tuesday offering the resolution
of sympathy for his colleague, Senator
Lake, would not hasten the knitting of
the senator's leg, but 1t would make
the injured man feel that he had the
sympathy of the senate It was the
right thing to do, just as it was now
the right thing to pass this resolution.
The vote disclosed but two votes in
favor of the resolution.