Evening journal., 1897-05-11
CUBA IN THE SENATE
Turpie Makes an Earnest Plea In
Behalf of the Insurgents.
HALE AGAINST MORGAN RESOLUTION.
Chandler Offers Bill For Permanent
Census Bureau-The House Wrestling
With the Senate Amendments to
the Appropriation Measures.

the Appropriation Measures.
Washington, May 1.-THE Morgan
Cuban resolution was discussed at con-
siderable length in the senate. Mr..
Hale of Maine and Mr.. White Of Cali
fornia spoke against the resolution,
while Mr.. Turpie of Indiana supported /
It.
Mr.. Hale insisted that the country did |
not demand congressional action favor
able to the Cuban insurgents.
II there was real sentiment through |
the country, he said, hundreds Of vet
erans would spring to arms. But on the /
contrary 5000 men had started to aid
Greece in her struggle where one had
gone to Cuba. Mr.. Hale closed with a
motion to refer the resolution to the
committee on foreign relations.
The Cuban resolution was laid aside
temporarily to allow Mr.. Vest to secure
agreement to a resolution directing the
committee on commerce to inquire into
the causes of the recent floods on the
Mississippi river and report to the sem
ate next December. The consideration
of the Cuban resolution was resumed
and Mr. Turpie of Indiana spoke in sup
port Of it.
He said the sympathy Of the people
of this country was universal in be-
half Of the struggling Cubans, but 1t
was time now to give this sympathy
official expression. Practically, he said,
the present war Of independence was in
it's thirteenth year. the first period of
the war having lasted ten years When
the terms of the temporary truce were
violated then this second period of the
same war for independence broke out.
No government, monarchial or other
wise. has succeeded in subjugating a
nation which had made up its mind to
be free and to throw off oppression.
1T is the age of revolution" exclaim-
the senator, 'and l hope that 1t may
last long enough to drive the last rem
nant Of monarchy from the American
continent" The senator took up Mr..
Hale's plea that the president should
be left unhampered TO pursue his in
Quiries. How can the president learn
anything we do not know" he asked.
The presidents special commissioner
was limited in his inquiry to the Ruiz
case. We might as well send a special
commissioner to Athens TO find out
whether war exists between Turkey and
Greece as to seek further information
as to Cuba.
A vote on the resolution was not
reached, as Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont gave
nOllIt lldl lie uESlltu ~ sBtah uRoAA IL
The senate committees were named in
accordance with the previous agreement
between the Republican and Democrat
ic steering committees.
Mr.. Chandler. chairman OF the COM
mittee on census, reported favorably the
bill providing for taking the twelfth
census and contemplating the estab-
lshment of a permanent census bureau.
The original bill is modified so that the
director of the census is to receive IS, 900
per year.
Proceedings of the House.
The house resumed the transaction of
public business. which had been sus-
pended since the Indian appropriation
bill was sent to conference three weeks
ago. The consideration of the senate
amendments to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill was entered upon under a
special order providing for a recess each
day until disposed Of.
Mr.. Simpson of Kansas attempted to
harass the majority with points of no
quorum. but without success.
The debate was mainly confined to
the discussion of the senate amendment
TO restore the lands reserved as forest
reservations under President Cleve-
lands order of Feb. % to the public do
main.
Mr.. Hartman moved a conference on
the senate amendment relative to the
forestry order.
Mr.. Lacey moved concurrence witr
amendments providing for the suspen-
sion of Mr. Cleveland's executive order
until March 1. 1898, when the order, as
It may be modified. shall go into effect
and substituting what is known as thu
McRae bill for the provision permitting
the use by bona fide settlers of timbe
and stone on such reservations. Messrs
Shafroth. Bell and Jones argued for tn
senate amendment.
A vote was not reached on the amend
ment.
incidentally the Dingley tariff bill
came up in the debate.
Mr.. Wheeler (Dem) of Alabama use
pro forma amendment to refer rathe
sensationally to the very impOrtan
admission" made in an interview b.
1.-The distinguished chairman of tn
ways and means committee, Mr.. Ding
ley, to the effect that the real purpos
of the tariff bill was to create a sur
plus and impound the greenbacks."
Mr.. Dingley replied with emphasi
that he had made no such statement.
Mr.. Fowler of New Jersey introduC
ed in the house bill for the creatio
of a tariff commission to investigat
federal taxation, to recommend chang,
and to adjust inequalities of existin
law. The bill provides for a commits
sion Of seven members at a salary
$1,000 per annum, with a term Of OH,
each of p years. The commission shal
under the terms of the bill make al
nual reports to the president, and il
given power, with the written approv
of the president, to suspend any ts
on imports in whole or part
New Postnasters Named.
Washington, May 1.-The followir
fourth class postmasters have been a