Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-29
MORGkN'S RESOLUTION
PASSES The SENATE
After a Long and Exciting Debate
Senate Recognizes the Fact
of a War In Cuba.
HALE SAYS IT ALL MEANS WAR
He Enters an Earnest Protest But
by a Large Majority the
Resolution Ii
Passed.

Washington, May 22.-After a long
and exciting debate the joint resolution
recognizing the existence of a state OF
war In Cuba and declaring that strict
neutrality shall be maintained by the
United States, passed the senate by the
decisive vote OF Al to IA at a late hour
yesterday afternoon. The result Of the
vote was received with tumultuous APP
plause, which drew from Senator Haw-
ley an emphatic protest against mob
demonstration"
The resolution passed Is as follows:
Resolved, etc, That q condition of
public war exists between the govern
ment Of Spain, and the government pro-
claimed and for some time maintained
by force of arms by the people of Cuba,
and that the United States OF America
shall maintain a strict neutrality be-
tween the ~contending parties,
according to Zach all the
rights of belligerents in the ports and
territory of the United States"
The vote on the fnal passage OF the
resolution was as follows:
Yeas-Bacon. Baker. Bate Berry, But
Ter, Carter, Chandler, Chiffon, Clarke,
Sldy, SONhIcli, 1ullOli, DdNlSr btpctt
Foraker, Gallinger, German, Hans
brough, Harris of Kansas, Heitfeld,
Jones of Arkansas, Kenney, Lindsay,
Mcbride, Mantle, Mason, Mills. Morgan,
Nelson, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus, Prich-
ard, Rawlins. Shoup, Stewart, Thurs
ton, Tillman, Tunnel, Turpie and Wal
thall-4l.
Nays-Allison, Burrows, Caffey, Fair
banks, Gear, Hale, Hanna, Hawley,
Hoar, Spooner, Wellington, Wetmore,
White and Wilson-l4.
HaIe's Motion To Refer Tabled.
Prior { O the final vote the motion OF
Senator Hale to refer the resolution TO
the committee on foreign relations was
tabled-yeas, "a; nays, 10.
senator Fairbanks of Indiana, pro-
posed a substitute providing that the
president extend the good offices of the
United States 10 Spain towards secur-
ing an end to the conflict and the ulti-
mate independence Of the island. This
also was tabled-yeas, 35; nays, Is,
Then followed the adoption OF the
original resolution. The voting occurred
after an exciting debate participated in
by Senators Thurston of Nebraska, FL
kins of West Virginia, White of Califor-
MIA, Fairbanks of Indiana, Hale OF
Maine, Spooner OF Wisconsin and Cor
man OF Maryland.
Senator Thurston. Who presided over
the republican national convention at
st. Louis, recalled the stirring scene
when that convention enthusiastically
inserted the Cuban plank in the plat
form, and declared that this resolution
was in partial fulfllment of that pledge.
Senator Elkins urged a conservative
course and an inquiry by a commission.
Then came the first vote-that on the
Hale motion to. refer. 1t was a test OF
strength, M the defeat OF the motion
assured the passage of the resolution.
Senator Fairbanks tried to stem the tide
by Offering a compromise proposition,
somewhat on the lines of the Cuban
plank adopted at st. Louis, but 1t met
the same fate as the Hale motion.
This brought Senator Hale forward
for a final protest. He spoke with in
tense earnestness and feeling. and with
a trace of bitterness In his words. He
declared that the elements opposed TO
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and pop
ulists-had furnished the bulk OF the
vote in favor of the resolution. and that
the foreign policy Of the administration
was thus to be dictated by it's oppo-
nents. He expressed the fear, also, that
the resolution would lead to war with
Spain.
Senator Spooner added his protest
against tieing the hands OF the admin
istration.
Senator German closed the debate, re-
senting the suggestion that party lines
were drawn on the resolution, and as
serting that the administration should
have sent a warship to Cuba to protect
our officials on the island. The final vote
was then taken and the senate ad.
journed until next Monday.