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MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE HIS BANK
RUPTCY MEASURE WILL BE
MADE TO-DAY.
HARD CONTEST PROMISED.
NOTICE GIVEN Of OPPOSITION TO
THE INVOLUNTARY FEATURE
INCORPORATED.
MORE CUBAN TALK IN MIR. MORGAN
surgents on the Island Pressed
for Final Action.

WASHINGTON, April 20. = Senator
Morgan's resolution, declaring that a
state Of war exists in Cuba, was dis
cussed briefly in the senate today and
then went over for a week, owing to
the absence of Senator Hale. of Maine.
who has been active in opposition. Mr..
Morgan again urged the need of speedy
action, by this country, to stay the
devastation going on in Cuba He had
just listened, he said, to the testimony
of a witness before the committee on
foreign relations, which presented a
shocking condition of affairs in Pinar
del Rio. 1t was morally impossible
that the people of the United States
should close their eyes to these hor-
rors much longer.
I'VE are" he said, aroused over
Greece and Crete and Armenia. but
the very stencil of these horrors is
under our nose" He wanted. .Ameri-
cans protected and scenes worse than
those in the bloody days of the
Netherlands brought to an end. If the
senate passed this resolution, as he be-
lieved it would, human lives would be
saved.
Mr.. White stated that he had heard
it intimated that the president was
about to send a commissioner to Cuba
Would it not be desirable to await the
report from this commissioner before
taking action.
There was no need of awaiting for
their reports, answered Mr.. Morgan
The country had been, deIuged with
rppOrtS and 17riy 81 ssSa.o b1o a1-i5a1oa
for the last two years.
Mr.. Mason, of IllinoisSoffered reso-
luton directing the eenlfnittee- on rules
to report a rule providing for limita-
ton of debate and for ordering the
previous question. Tie resolution went
over.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was then taken UP and passed without
amendment. At 1s40 D. IN. the senate
went into executive session. At 2
o'clock the senate resumed legislative
session and the bankruptcy bill was
formally laid before Fhe senate.
In the course Of the debate Mr.. Al
len announced that he would obstruct
in every way possible any bankruptcy
bill which included involuntary bank
ruptcy. Mr.. Nelson (Rep., Mimi
amended his substitute bill so as to
overcome criticisms heretofore made.
Mr.. Morgan gave notice that he
would seek to secure a test on the
pending Nelson subs titute by moving
at 4 D. m. tomorrow to lay the sub
stitute on the table. Mr.. Bacon. or
Georgia, submitted numerous amend
ments modifying the stTingency of the
original bill as applicable to debtors.
A resolution by AIr. Hoar was agreed
TO, requesting the secretary of state
for comprehensive information as to
the machinery Of government of all
foreign nations with which we have
Diplomatic relations. the taxes or
excuses and methods of collection i'm
ports and exports, method of aiding
the merchant marine, determinations
against American merchant vessels,
public Indebtedness, etc.
Another resolution by Mr.. CullOm,
requesting the secretary of the trea-
sury for information as to the effect
of the present internal revenue tax on
the honest production of distilled
spirits; to what ext Ant illicit distilla-
ton had occurred. a I'd all further in
formal ton that will aid lin protecting
the government against frauds. In
this connection Mr. Cullom stated that
he understood one-third of the high
wines produced in tiissacountry came
from illicit distillation.a The resolution
went over after a brief discussion. The
senate adjourned at 40 p. m.