The record-union., 1897-05-21
The Long Debate on the Morgan ReSolu-
ton Recognizing a State Of War
And According Rights of Belligerency
to the Insurgents

FOur FOpuilSCS NOtlng FOr ana
Twelve Republicans and Two DEM
ocrats Against Its Adoption.
WASHINGTON, May 20-The long
and exciting debate on the joint resolu-
| tion recognizing a state of war in Cuba
and declaring that strict neutrality
| shall be maintained by the United
States passed the Senate by the decis-
| i've vote of Al to IA at a late hour this
! afternoon. The announcement of the
vote was received with tumultuous ap-
plause, which drew from Senator Haw-
ley an emphatic protest against "mob
demonstration The resolution as
passed is as follows:
Resolved, ETC., That a condition of
public war exists between the Govern
ment of Spain and the Government
proclaimed and for some time main
tanned by force of arms by the people
of Cuba, and that the United States Of
| America shall maintain a strict neu-
trality between the contending parties,
according to each and all the rights of
belligerency in the ports and the terri
tory of the United States"
The vote on the final passage of the
resolution was as follows:
Yeas-Bacon, Baker, Bate, Berry,
Butler, Garter, Chandler, Chiffon, Clark,
Clay. Cockrell, Cullom, Davis, Deboe,
Foraker Ga1inger, German, Hans
brough, Harris of Kansas, Heitfeld,
Jones of Arkansas, Kenney, Lindsay,
Mcbride, Mantle, Mason, Mills, Morgan,
N-1I- ).:+
chard, Rawlins, Shoup, Stewart, Thurs
ton, Tillman, Turner, Turpie, Walthall
! fl.
Nays-Allison, Burrows, Caffery,
Fairbanks Gear, Hale, Hanna, Hawley,
Hoar, Spooner, Wellington, Wetmore,
White Wilson-14
An analysis of the vote shows that
the affirmative was cast by Is Repub-
licans, 10 Democrats and 4 Populists,
and the negative by II Republicans and
= Democrats.
Prior to the final vote. the motion of
Senator Hale to refer the resolution to
the Committee on Foreign Relations
was tabled ~gs "a, noes 10.
Fairbanks of Indiana proposed a sub
stitute, providing that the President ex-
! tend the good offices of the United
! States to Spain toward securing an end
! to the conflict and the ultimate inde-
pendence of the island. This, too, was
tabled-yeas 80, noes 10. Then followed
the adoption of the original resolution.
THE voting occurred after an exciting
debate, participated in by Senators
Thurston of Nebraska, Elkins of West
Virginia, White of California, Fair
banks of Indiana, Hale Of Maine Spoon
er of Wisconsin and German of Mary
land. Thurston, who presided over the
! Republican Convention at St Louis,
recalled the stirring scene when the
convention inserted a Cuban plank in
the platform, and declared that this
resolution was in partial fulfillment Of
that pledge. Elkins and White urged a
| conservative course and an inquiry by
| a committee.
Then came the first vote. that on the
motion of Hale to refer. 1t was test,
and a defeat of the motion assured the
passage of the resolution. Fairbanks
tried to stem the tide by offering a COM
promise proposition, somewhat on the
lines of the Cuban plank adopted at ST.
Louis, but it met the same fate as the
| Hale motion.
Only the front rows of the Senate
galleries were occupied when the ses-
sion opened to-day. the belief being
that the Morgan resolution would not
come UP until ? O'Clock, but at 1870,
/ after a brief debate on the lack Of fa-
cilities for shipping relief supplies to
/ India from New York, at the request of
| Morgan the resolution was taken up
and Thurston addressed the Senate
| Thurston spoke of the bloody contest
which had ragged during the last two
years. There was ample information
as to its extent from American cor
| respondents, who had written their
| dispa tches on the field of battle: from
| the reports which filled the records of
the Senate, and in the archives of the
State Department Every man in the
| United States ought to be ready for ac-
tion on this question at this time, and
if any Senator was not sufficiently in
formed. 1hurston commended him to
| the consideration of his constituents
| The Senator referred to the ST Louis
convention over which he presided, and
pictured the scene when, with a
mighty shout that seemed to lift the
roof from our heads the Cuban reso-
luton was passed by the convention.
That declaration could not be faith
fully carried out unless we first recog-
nize the Cubans as belligerents. and
thereby laid the foundation for the full
execution of that declaration IT was
whispered. Thurston said. that this res
olution came from Democratic sources.
and that this Republican Administra-
ton should direct the policy on this
great subject.
Il am party man of the ultra tvne -
proceeded Thurston, "but over and
above my duty to my party is that of
my country. to humanity and to God
and l would be unworthy of my great
party if / shaped my course on this
resolution through party considera-
TONS
Thurston read The interview of for
mer Premier Sagasta published admis-
sion of all that had been asserted of the
impotency of the Spanish cause i'm
Cuba.
Peace in Cuba," exclaimed the SEN
, ator. If there is peace in Cuba. it is
the peace of devastated fields. Peace
in Cuba! If there is peace in Cuba. ii
is the peace of deso1ated homes. Peace
in Cuba. If there is peace in Cuba. it
is the peace of ravished women and
starving children, and the paens OF
this peace are sung by the uncoffined