The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-04-14


those of the minority which were to be
offered a substitute.
Mr.. Adams yielded to Mr.. Dinsmore (dem.,
of Arkansas,) the senior member of the
minority. Mr.. Dinsmore said he regretted
as much as any other man on this floor
the manifestation of the partisan feeling
and the craftsmanship that had occurred DIR
ing the afternoon. ut appears to me, STR
said he, tstlaat If there was ever a period
in the history of this government when
patriotic dignity, should have been shown
and craftsmanship should have been sub
ordinated to craftsmanship that period is
now. prolonged applause on the demo-
cratic side.
I'VE are confronted here by the most
critical situation witnessed in many years
by the people of the United States. Our
people have long recognized that this point
would ultimately be reached unless those
who represented the people in the congress
performed their full duty and took the
courage our stand indicated by prudence
and craftsmanship and common sense. (Ap-
piause)
Throughout all of the history of the gov
eminent Spanish colonization on the Amer
lean continent has been a menace to us
and to our institutions. And now we are
called upon again today, to extend help to
patriots who for thirty years have fought
Spanish oppression, Spanish brutality,
Spanish butchery and Spanish wrong pro
longed applause.) But. he continued the
majority propose 10 go ana say TO the peO-
pie who have for years past in an unequal
fight been compelled to see their wives suf-
fer and starve in the cause of liberty, that
we are coming with army to establish
a government which in our judgment will
be stable, which will be a peaceful gov
eminent. The minority on the other hand
proposes to recognize the fact that the
Cubans have organized government We
are not going to force upon them gov
eminent that may be carpet bag govern
ment run by somebody else outside of your
own dominion. Applause)
Responsible for the Bonds
IT understand it was stated by Senator
Foraker in the senate today, asserted as a
fact Of international law and 1 have
thought myself all along that there were
grave difficulties upon this question-he
asserted as a fact that in case we go and
intervene in Cuba without giving recog
milton to the government which there ex-
lists, we thereby become responsible for the
payment of the bonds which have been
hoated on, the credit of the revenues of
Cuba We heard the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Grosvenor) the other day say that
Cuban independence was going to be rec
ognized Cuban independence! There can
be no independence except in the inde-
pendence of it's government in the hands
of its own people. (Applause>
Mr.. Speaker, L for one have become con-
WINGED by deliberate consideration of the
tuted naval court, composed of officers
who have honored commissions, that the
Maine disaster was the result of the de-
liberate official action of the Spaniards.
(Applause.) Not that Blanco knew it, not
that he ordered it, but that it must of ne
cessity inevitably have been done by some
official of the Spanish government familiar
with and having the secrets of the sub
marine mines there deposited for the pro-
lection of that harbor. We ought to do
that which would be an honor to the
American colors, because if we impose
dishonor on Cuba it rebounds to the dis
honor of our own republic.
Mr. Adams, the acting chairman of the
foreign affairs committee, closing the de-
bate, reviewed the half a century of Span
ish misrule in Cuba, which had kept the
limited States in a ferment politically and
financially, and the history of the cruelties
and barbarities of the present war on the
island.
The vote was then taken on the substitute
resolutions and they were defeated l4l TO
100. The vote was then taken on the adop-
ton of the majority resolutions ana .nss
were adopted-S22 to 10. The names OF the
democrats as they voted for the resolu-
lions were cheered.
The negative votes were:
Observation-Disclosures, of Georgia; Bank
head. of Alabama; Brantley, of Georgia;
Brewer. Of Alabama; Clayton, OF Aiapama'
Cog. of Tennessee; Elliott, of South Car
DINA; Griggs, of Georgia; Howard, OF Geor-
gia: Lester, of Georgia; Lewis, of Geor-
gia: Maddox, Of Georgia; Strait, OF south
Carolina; Tate, Of Georgia, and Taylor, OF
Georgia.
telIe, of Maine, and Loud, OF California.
Populists-Simpson, of Kansas. S.
The house then at $3.50 p. m adjourned.