The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-26
SENATOR TURPIE
SPEAKS UPON CUBA
He Favors an Immediate Declaration OF
BelligereBcy.
BITTERLY SCORES GENERAL WEYLER
The Spanish Leader Is Characterized
as Diminutive Repti!e--Eulogies
Are Delivered on EX-Speaker Crisp.
A Lot of Miscellaneous Business
Disposed of by the House.

Washington, Jan. 25.-The condition |
of affairs in connection with the choice |
of senator from the state of Dela- |
ware was called to the attention OF the |
senate today by Mr.. Burrows of Michi-
gan, who presented paper signed by |
the three presidential electors for that |
state in which it is asserted that |
through illegal and fraudulent action a
majority of about 500 Republican votes |
in Kent county had been changed INTO |
a Democratic majority of about ZOV
Mr.. Burrows also presented paper
signed by the speaker of the senate ana
the speaker of the house, asserting that
legislators chosen by the people were
evicted from the state capitol and that
the powers of the state government
was usurped by a corrupt oligarchy
Both papers urge the senate to take
action in the premises. In connection
with the same subject Mr.. Chandler,
of New Hampshire announced his IN
tention to suggest to the senate Wheth-
er some method cannot be fixed to pre-
vent the wholesale larceny of senator
ships in various states"
resolution was offered by Mr.. Pet
tgrew, of South Dakota, and was re-
ferred to the committee on contingent
expenses for a select committee to in
quire into the issue of land patents to
the Pacific railroads and as to the di-
version from the gross earnings OF the
subsidies paid by the companies to the
Pacific Mail Steamship company. And
notice was given by Mr.. Gear, of Iowa,
chairman of the Pacific railroad COM
mittee, that after the Nicaragua canal
bill was out of the way, he would ask
the senate to consider the Pacific rail-
rnol mic Sim hill-Mr White Cali
fornla, giving notice that objection
would be made to the consideration of
that bill.
CUBAN QUESTION.
A bill providing that no person shall
be tried in a United States court for
acts in aid of the republic of Cuba, was
introduced by Mr.. Chandler and was
referred to the judiciary committee.
And then, in pursuance of previous no.
tice MIR. Turpie, Indiana, addressed the
senate in long constitutional argu~
ment to prove that the primary and
paramount power to recognize a new
state is vested, not in the president of
the United States, but in congress un-
der that clause of the constitution
which declares that congress shall have
power to regulate commerce, that is,
according to Mr.. Turpie, intercourse
with foreign states. He spoke for two
hours and half and had not conclud-
ed when the hour fixed for eulogies on
eX-Speaker Crisp, of Georgia, arrived.
In the course of his speech he in
dulged in Vtuperation of Captain Cen
eral Weyler as an "indescribably di-
minutive reptile" as man who used
his sword against women and chill
dren," and who met his enemy with
paper pellets and proclamations." Mr..
Turpie favored an immediate declara-
ton of belligerency which would be
followed, he said, by the issue of letters
of marque and reprisal and by the ap-
pearance of privateers-"militia of the
seas"-that would sweep Spanish COM
merce from the ocean and would close
the market to Spanish bonds and Sc
curities. Mr.. Tuupie will continue his
speech tomorrow.
The eulogies on ex-Speaker Crisp
We're delivered by Senators Gordon,
Georgia; Gallinger, New Hampshire;
German, Maryland; Berry, Arkansas;
Mills, Texas; Carter Montana; Daniel,
Virginia. and Bacon, eGeorgia.
The senate then at APO adjourned
until tomorrow.
HOUSE PRO'CE EDINGS.
The house today disposed of a lot of
miscellaneous business and toward the
close of the session entered upon the
consideration of the Indian appropria-
tion bill. In the time allotted to genera
debate on the measure, Mr.. Johnson
of Indiana, gave to the house at length
his views upon the me cessity for a re-
vision of the currency and banking
laws. After disposi ng of about a quar-
ter of the text of the bill, which includes
eighty printed pages, the house at 51l
o'clock adjourned until tomorrow.
The conference eport upon the i'm
migration bill wasI presented by Mr.
Danford, of Ohio, who gave notice tina
he would ask the house to take it VI
Wednesday and dispose OF it.
BilIs We're passed to regulate the dis
position of dead b Ddies in the Distric
of Columbia, and to prevent the spread
of contagious disc. ases in the district
A senate bill wsss passed directing
survey from the mouth of the Jetties
at Galveston, Tex, through Buffal
Bayou to Houston.