Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-18
PRINCIPAL THEME IS CUBA In Both Branches of the Ma
 tionaI Congress. THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Meets With Prompt Approval By the Senate Not So in the House Strong Speech
 Against Morgan's Resolution.

l " hiiC SlCdl C1OhN1S WUIcH pSSlS5Gu NIt galleries throughout the day. Among the occupants of the diplomatic gallery were Sir Julian Pauncefote, the English ambassador, and Minister Match, of <! Hawaii, atid in the reserved gallery were Gen. Daniel SielSels, ex-United States minister to Spain Neither the spanish legation nor the Cuban bureau in Wash ington were represented in the galleries so far as could be observed. Two phases of the subject were presented. First came the question of relief to destitute and starving Americans in Cuba. This was presented in the presidents message as soon as the session opened. Imme- diately following the rea1ing of the mes sage, MT. Davis chairman of the commit l tee on foreign relations, presented a fa- Vorable report on the joiIJt resolution Dr. 1 iginally introduced by Mir. Gallinger, ap- propriating $50,000 for the relief of Amer lcan citizens in Cuba. There was only a 1 brief spesoh-from MT. Ga1ingSr-and then. the message went through by unani- nous vote. The resolution as amended l is as follows:
 Resolved by the senate and house. of representatives of the United States in congress assembled, that the sum of $50, l GOO ba, and the same is hereby appropri- ated out of any money in the treasury not l otherwise appropriated, for relief of des- l IiIulS ClllDeIS Ol lll6 OIllSQ OIdJ6S III LlC island of Cuba saii money to be expend- ed at the discretion of and under the di- | reetion of the president of the United States in the purchase and furnishing of I food, clClthing and medicines to such citi- zens and for transportation to the United States such of them as so desire and who | are without means to transport them selves"
 MT Hoar, republican. of Massachusetts, presented from the judiciary committee | a sof ton R. Chapman. He stated that the | committee had ascertained to its satfe- faction that Mir. Chapman is not and had l not been an applicant for executive l cremency. Under such circumstances the l committee recommended that the sen- ate take no further action on the subject l At the request of Mir. Hoar the report was accepted and allowed to lie on the 1 table,
 i MT. Pettigrew, populist of South Da-. kota called up the resolution for the ,ago- | pointment Of a Committee of five sena- | tors to investigate the issue of patents for land to the Pacific and other Cali, fornia and Oregon railways, The resolu-, 'taon was adopted after being amended | so as to provide that the regular com | mIttee should make the Investigation. The bill authorizing the settlement, of mutual accounts between the United States and Florida was passed
 The sec0r1 phase of the Cuban subject | came up at o'clock whe.l the Morgan | resolution declaring that a condition of war exists in Cuba was taken up MT. Morgan stated that unless some senator desired to speak he would ask yea and nay vote on the pending mo- ton of MT Hale to refer the resolution to the committee on foreign relations
 MT. Hale, observing the meagre attend ance on the floor, suggested the import ance or the question was such as to make a quorum desirable. This necesstated call for a quorum, which after some delay brought forty-six senators, just quorum to the senate. >A' The vote was about to be taken when MT. Wellington, republican, of Maryland rose for his maiden speech, which proved to be vigorous protest against the reso- lution and plea for its reference to the committee on foreign relations. He said that while a resolution of belligerency might not be serious, yet the senate should pause and consider the serious results that might follow such a deolar- ation. The first thing the senate should do is to pass a tariff bill. The American peo- pie, he said, were more interested in the passage of that bill than they were in the Cuban question. Then congress should turn it's attention to the curren- cy for, he said, the republican party stood for good, sound currency. On these foreign questions, urged Mir Wellington, we should not go forth as "bombastio furfosio" or as Don Quixote or as man with defiance to tread on the tail of his coat. Instead of arraigning the United States against every country in Europe we should invite their support and their confidence.
 "The policy pursued by the late admin tration and by Grover Cleveland meets my approval" declared MT. Wellington. and IS a republican I am prepared to say that Grover Cleveland did his duty in refusing to rush headlong into a radical Cuban policy"
 The senator said he was opposed to jingoism. He would oppose this resolu- tion if reported back from the commit tee unless much stronger evidence was presented than that he had seen Tn support of defiance to Spain," he said, you may say that Spain is a weak thirty minutes. Are you ready for war? Do the American people demand 1t? do not believe it. Until you are ready for war do not take steps that will in- volve it.'
 MT. Stewart, of Nevada, argued for the resolution, saying that it voiced the sentiments of the American people who wanted no more of the Cleveland policy on Cuba" Ni
 MT Daniel, of Virginia, said that the senator from Maryland had taken a shot at the election, while presumably dis cussing the resolution. He had gone into tariff matters lately and was urging it with all it's ramifcations.
  entirely misrepresented the resolution in declaring 1t was hostile to Spain.
 Very caustcally he referred to MT. Wellington's statement that some debt of gratitude existed because Spain had produced a Christopher Columbus. It were better there had been no Colum- bus said MT. Daniel, if America was to continue the savagery thatp revailed here before the country was discovered.
 The senator then took up the lsgal qies- tions involved in. recognizing belllger- ency. This brarch of the speech was carefully prepared and was read from manuscript. ---s.
 After continuing his legal argument on tha powers of congress and the president, MT. Daniel returned to the ssubject pf Cuba and again aroused the, keenest d. tenrlon sbyFhis vigorous words
 The diplomacy of s:,ain f,as succeeded for two and a half years, The said in blnding American diplomacy irto the bs- lief that war did not exist in Cuba. But the world knew war existed there, high