The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-07
CUBAN QUESTION
BEFORE THE SENATE
Discussion Aroused by Resolutions In-
troduced by Mr.. Call.
AMERICAN CITIZENS SLAUGHTERED
An Adverse Report Upon the Claim of
U. s. Consul Waller, Late of Mada-
gascar--The Loud Postal Bill
Passed in the Housc-- Gros-
venor Wants Information Regard
ing the Civil Service.

ing the Civil Service.
Washington, Jan. 6.--The Cuban
question was under consideration in
the senate today in the form of two
resolutions offered yesterday by Mr..
Call, of Florida-the one a simple reso-
luton calling upon the secretary of
state Tor copies of the correspondence
in the matter of Julio Sanguilly, an
American citizen, condemned by the
Spanish authorities in Cuba to per-
petual Imprisonment in chains; and the
other a joint resolution instructing the
president to demand Sanguilly's i'm
mediate release. The first was agreed
to- and the second was referred to the
committee on foreign relations
In a long speech on the subject of
these resolutions the case of Charles
these resolutions the case of Chas. Gov
in was discussed quite as much as that
of anguilly. The statements of the
Spanish officials that GOWNS death re-
suited from wounds received in battle
were discredited; and the assertion was
repeated on the authority of a person
whom Mr.. Call did not name, but who,
he said, was to be a member of the
tied to a tree and cut to pieces with
machetes by a squad of cavalry riding
past The two cases, Mr.. Call said,
We're types of what was occurring to
hundreds of American citizens in Gu
ba and it only needed investigation by
the senate to take the cover off that
scene of butchery." AS to a combina-
tion of European powers against the
JTpitpl Call declared that
| there was no danger of such a thing in
view of the effect which it would have
on the masses of the people in Euro
pean countries, and that the sympa
thies of mankind would be with the
American republic in such a struggle.
An adverse report from the commit
tee on foreign relations on the claim of
John S. Waller, United States consul at
Madagascar, against France, for dam
ages by reason of his arrest and i'm
prisonment was presented and indef-
nitely postponed.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Hale,
of Maine, and agreed to, calling on
the secretary of state for a statement
concerning the action of the president
or of the secretary of state, touching
the recognition of any foreign people
or power, as an independent govern
ment; and the corresponding action of
other branches of the United States
| government.
Senate bill to amend the act repeal
ing timber culture laws was passed;
also house bill for the appointment by
| Brevet of active or retired officers of
| the army.
The senate joint resolution request
| ing the government of Great Britain
to pardon Mrs. Maybrick which was
| reported adversely last session, was
taken from the calendar and indefi-
! nitely postponed.
House bill providing for free home
steads on the public lands in oklahoma
territory-amended so as to apply to
all lands obtained from Indian tribes
was taken up as the unfinished busi-
ness; was discussed for nearly two
| hours, and went over till tomorrow
without action.
| LOUD BILL PASSED IN HOUSE.
After two days debate the house this
afternoon, by a vote Of 144 to 104, pass
| ed the bill introduced by Mr.. Loud,
| chairman Of the committee on post
| offices and post roads, to amend the
| laws relating to second class mail mat
| ter. The principal features of the bill
We're those denying to the mails as
| second class matter sample copies of
| newspapers and serial novel puDlica-
tions and withdrawing from news
! agents the privilege of returning to
their principals, at the pound rate un-
sold copies of periodicals.. The gener-
al debate was closed by Mr.. Loud in
an hour speech in favor of the bill.
preceding which Messrs. Milliken,
Maine; Wanger, Pennsylvania; Ira
cey, Missouri; Morse, Massachusetts,
and Bingham, Pennsylvania, address
ed the house in opposition to the bill.
| The TWO hours devoted to a considera-
ton of the bill under the five-minute
rule was productive of no change III
the text, as referred to the committee
of the whole, and at o'clock 1t was
reported to the house for final action.
Immediately after the reading Of the
journal, Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio, ad-
dressed the house on question of per-
sonal privilege He called attention to
the fact that a resolution introduced
by him and adopted by the house June
5 last, calling upon the heads of the
several departments for certain infor-
nation, as to the operation of the
civil service law has as yet received nc
response from any one of the cabinet
officers. He felt justified, ne said, in
raising the question whether or not
congress had been properly treated In
this regard, expressing the opinion
that this silence of seven months
showed that the heads of the severa
departments as we'll as the executive
himself had begun to ignore the de-
mands of congress- A resolution ask
ing each cabinet officer to inform tho
house why no response had been made
to the original resolution was agreed