The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-24

| food animals as whole, and special taxes
| on the horns, the hoofs and the hide. In
| addition to all this the interest on the
debt is tremendous burden, tina salaries
| of the Spanish officials are beyond all
reason, and the amount of money wrung
| from the Cubans to keep the Madrid
government from complete insolvency is
| Simply enormous. No people on the face
| of the earth have been so oppressed, the
| treasury of Spain being literally sup
piled from the revenues extorted from
Cuba and the Philippine islands. +
Our forefathers went to war because
the mother country put tax on tea.
| Cuba has 10000 more reasons than we
had for rebellion and she deserves the
sympathy and help OF every true Ameri-
can. Fortunately the people of this great
| republic are thoroughly aroused to the
situation and the great heart of the Anne
rican populace is full of sympathy for
Cuba.
Religion and humanity alike demand
that this unhoIly war shall cease and
cease it should, even though the glitter
and glamour of military rule shall end
and a deoaying and dissolute throne shall
pass away never to return.
AS to what should be done, Mr Gall1n-
gel. felt that sooner or later this govern
ment would of necessity absorb Cuba,
but IL annexation CANNOT now be accom-
| plished, let independence speedily come.
American interests in Cuba, said he,
| in conclusion. have already suffered
enough. We have patrolied our coast In
the interest of Spain as long as we should
and we have spent quite too much
money in protecting our people from
epidemic diseases coming TO our shores
because of the unsanitary condition of
| the harbor and city Of Havana. Spain
has failed to meet the requirements OF an
advanced civilization. Let the. United
States or Cuba take up the problem and
solve it.
Several times during the delivery of the
speeoh. Mr.. Gallinger was interrupted by
hearty anplause from the galleries. When
he declared with dramatic emphasis
that a government that will deliberately
starye 400, 900 of its people, will do pretty
much anything" the galleries rang with
applause. The further declaration that
the time had now cnme for Spain to retire
from the western hemisphere also called
forth applause and the Vice President
had some difficulty in restoring order.
Mr. Gallinger was thirty-eight minutes
in delivering his speech, and as he COM
mended, 1.-THE poor, suffering Cubans to
the great heart of the American people. :"
| great wave of applause swept through
| the galleries
Mr.. Gallinger was warmly congratu-
| lated by many of his colleagues:
| Mr.. Carter of Montana then. scalled up
| the bill making further revision for a
civil government for Alaska and resumed
his speech begun yesterday, upon the
measure.
After a brief discussion of the bill by
Mr.. Carter, Mr.. Perkins of California
offered long amendment to the measure
providing for the placing of q license up
on almost every kind of business and for
| the taxing and regulation OF the liquor
traffic. The tax on a wholesale liquor
establishment is fixed at $4,000 per year;
upon a bar.room or saloon in any town of
more than 1900 inhabitants Sl5oO year;
and upon any retail liquor saloon In COM
munities of less than 1900 Inhabitants
$1,000 per year.
Mr.. Hansbrough OF North Dakota, said
the Perkins amendment meant simply
that the government woul1 Jake part in
the liouor business of the District and
he did not believe it was rlght or that the
people of this country would approve Of
such step. He offered an amendment to
the pending bill to be considered as
supstitute for that proposed by Mr.. Per-
kins.
The amendment provides that no liquor
shall be imported, manufactured or sold
in Alaska and that any violation Of this
nrovision should be considered as a mis-
dan,eanor punishable by fine and i'm
nrisonment Mr. Perkins, in reply to Mr..
Hansbrough said that nobody would go