Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-05-26

Executive and legislative circles
are stirred to the rooLs over the re-
-eent reports of Consul General Lee
of Havana on the condition of the
American citizens in Cuba. His re-
ports show that because of General
Weyler' policy of herding the peo-
ple In the cities and towns business
Is at complete standstill, planta-
tioSs are abandoned and work can
not he obtained and that conse-
6uently Americans are starving.
He also reports tba it is impossible
~ obtain medicines and for that
reason Americans who are i'll can
not be properly taken care of. Ser
ator Davis of the Cuban sub-com-
mittee of foreign relations said that
If General Lees reports were pub
hshed IN full the Americans IN Cuba
would u OF be allowed to live twenty
four hours. The general denounces
the Spanish authorities unmercl-
fully and scores General Weyler in
most vigorous terms. In view OF
thesr reports the President sent on
Mond y. May IS, sgeeial message
to Congress together with docu-
ments Lich g@vea full expose OF
the condition Of Americans on the
island and r. qUested an approprla-
4ion Of $50, 900 for the relief of
these Americans, and directed that
sneil relief be sent in American
vessel. He also requested that a por-
tio,. If the money be made available
for 2,rln ging destitute Americans
fro7u the island of Cuba if they de-
sire to leave. In anticipation of
fhe message Senator Gallinger had
already introduced resolution
appropriatlng $4,000 for the relief
OF the destitute Americans IN Cuba.
Tie President is deeply moved by
Tie reports of General Lee and is
determined on vigorous policy,
but will await the report OF Mr..
Ca lhoun special commissioner to
T. nba, before doing anything more
than sending a relief to Americans.
1t required just eighteen minutes
from the time the Presidents mes
sage was read for the Senate to
pars MrHallinger's resolution COM
VI lying with the President request.
The resolution was blocked in the
house by the Democrats led by
Bailey.
IL is felt at the capitol that this
move IF the administration is indi-
cat,Be of strong policy in the
Guban matter.
The tariff bill can no longer be |
called the Dingley bill. It is now
the ''Sugar Trust Bill . The SEN
ate ought to have a beautiful motto
painted andhung over the desk of
the presiding officer and that motto
esght to be ''Sugar is the root of
all evil More good senator's have
Ia ken bait of any Crust TIL
matters not what the political
creed of the majority of that au-
CAST body may be the 'sTrust'' al
ways finds suitable number who
are willing to take little flyer in
sugar trust stock whereby they can
scoop in about $4,000 profit when
aided by the sugar trust. The
= trust" seems. to own, body and
sonl, the sub committee of the SEN
ate, which framed the bill. The
storm which the revised sugar
schedule has raised has swept over
Sle whole land and there is strong
anti trust feeling in the senate.
The 'tTrust will have hard fight
wlarD the bill comes before the SEN
ate on the Oath of May, but they
zre here with a barrel which
74esns to have no bottom, and the
lobbyests from ex-senators down,
are living on the fat of the land.
The silver forces are united in
their opposition to the financial
pelicy of the Republicans. There
may be slight differences of opin-
ION among the Democrats, Popu-
lists, and Silver Republicans as the
proper policy to be pursued in the
aonse but they are all united on
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