The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-27
Mr.. MOrgan's ConiemptuOus AIIu-
sion to the President.
HE SAID MIR. CLEVELAND WAS
PRAYING TO SPAIN TO RELEASE
SANGUILLY AND THAT HE WAS
a SLUGGARD SLEEPING AND
SNORING WHILE AMERICANS
SUFFERED = DANIEL ACCUSED
GRAY OF '"rALKING SPANISH"

Washington, Feb. 2G.-The Senate had
the Indian appropriation before it
throughout all the days session: but
that fact did not preven. Cub, and the
Saneuilly case from being fought over
even in II more angry and excited manner
than it had heen yesterday. At the very
opening Mr.. Frye, Of Maine. referred to
the dispatch announcing Snngully's re-
lease to day, and deprecated further dis.
cussion'of the matter, saying that for his
part he did not believe in wasting pow.
der simply for the purpose of making a
noise.
The Sanguily resolution having hecn
sent to the calendar, two other resolu-
tion- us to victims of Spanish cruelty
were olfcrc'I-one by Mr.. Morgan, of Ala.
bama, III the case Of George Washington
Aguirrc, and enc by Mr.. Call in relation
to the suicide or murder CT DR.. RicarIlo
Ruiz. AS to Aguirre, there were some
comments upon his baptismnl name- Mr..
Morgan assuming that it gave to Aguirrc
an additional claim upon American SYM
pnthy: and Mr.. Lindsay, of Kentucky,
asserting that his surrender, under II
proclamation of amnesty was an un.
George Washington act.
letter from Ethan Allen, of New
York, vouching for the Young man, was
read, and Mr.. 1ioar WAS led in IL iocose
mood, to inquire, with an mir of gravity,
whether that was the Ethan Allen os the
Revolution. Mr.. Morgan said that he
WAS the grandson of the Revolutionary
hero, and another Senator added the III
formation that he WAS the president of
the Cuban iunta of New York
The storm broke out again through the
SanGuilly matter, and Senators White OF
California, and Lodge, of Massachusetts,
had s,nmp fl9llpn IN nrrnf in ,,b;r l, NI.
White spoke ironically of Mr. Lodge as
one OF the great men of the world, aud us
Knowing more about Spanish pronun.
ciation than all other Spanish scholars
known. This WAS provoked by Mr..
Lodges sneering Mt Mr. White fer pro-
nouncing Julio rs "IIulo." MIR.
Lodge retaliated by imputing envy to
the California Senator because his long
speech yesterday had not enthIsed the
galleries.
When Mr. Hale, OF Maine, appealed to
Senators to lay aside al! cXtraneous dis
cussions and continc themselves to the
business OF appropriation bills for the six
remaining days Of the session, saying
that he expected the Senate to sit on Sun.
day, he WAS cruelty ridiCulcd by Mr..
Morgan, and told that he ought tn start
OUT on Il reSi:lar tour OF lc,turinG. ii lie
could find IL lot OF school children for his
audience.
The Alabama Senator was i'm Il very I'M
conciliatory mood. lie refused angrily
and with every remark of diSrespect to
permit either Senate: Iloar or Senator
Hale to intcrject remark into his
speech: bur he reserved his btterest
words for President Cleveland, who he de-
scribed contemptuously as having been
down on his hunkers praying Spain to
release San9uilly," also as IL ''sluggarl
sleeping and snoring while Americans
suffered -
Mr.. Morgan was OH the floor for over
an hour. After he resumed his seat the
bitterness faded out of the debate. In.
stead of it there was Il witty passage be
tween Senators Daniel, of Virginia, and
Gray. of Delaware, when the former used
the Spanish word, 'incommunicado.n
Mr. Gray assumed ignorance of its mean
ing, and said he did not talk Spanish
With pleasant and gracious smile, Mr..
Daniel excused himself, and said that he
Thought that the Senator from Delaware
had inst been talking very good Spanish.
rms polite retort, with it's uneNpressed
but well understood meaning. provoked
an outburst of laughter on the floor and
in the galleries, which were crowded all
the day
In the pleasanter turn which the dis
cilssion had thus taken. the Cuban ques,
ton was permitted to subside: and the
actual consideration of the Indian appro.
priation bill was resumed.
The bill han not passed. when at 6 p.
III. Il recess was taken until 1:3U D. IN.