The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-10

SENATOR MASON, WHOSE VO
the statement that every rifle in the
hands of the Cuban patriots had cost
/ them $500. After quiet had been re-
stored, Mr.. Cannon, whose face was
white as paper, and who was evidently
painfully affected by his emotion, said;
DEADLY TOLL.
4 do not ordinarily object to remarks
Of denial concerning statements which
1 make on this floor; however, to a
statement which I just made, the aud
ible comment was added that it was a
( lie. l care less, Mr.. President, for the
I. remark than for the spirit which actu-
/ ated it. re-assert it as a solemn truth
/ that the Cuban patriots have paid 5000
/ fer every rifle they have in use in their
] army. These arms have come from the
/ United States. Every railroad, and
/ every express company. and every fill
! clustering expedition which has landed
munitions o. war upon the island of
! Cuba, has taken its deadly toll"
The remark which Mr.. Cannon re-
/ feIred to came from a member of the
J house, who was talking to another
member just behind the senator's chair.
Mr.. Cannon said that the present pol
icy was TO hold the Cubans, While Spain
! outraged and pillaged the island. 4
believe that one strong, brave word,
! SPOKEN in time, will absolutely free
Cuba, and I am firmly of the belief that
the result OF such a word would not be
war between the United States and
Spain
HALE FOLLOWED.
Mr.. Hale followed Mr. Cannon with
4 motion TO refer the Cannon resolu-
ton to the committee on foreign rela-
tions, and with a speech deprecatory
of the policy of a congressional dec
laratiOn on the Cuban question, and in
support of the course of the admins
tratiCn on that question. The Cannon
and Mason resolutions were intended
to put the administration in leading
strings as to its policy toward Cuba.
They assume that the country cannot
wait upon the executive, but are in
tended to drive the administration into
a course fraught with danger, and one
which may involve the country in a
conflict with new friendly power.
Mr.. Hale also discussed the policy
involved in the amendment to the dip
lomatic appropriation bill, which had
been offered by Mr.. Allen. This
amendment provides for the recogni-
ton of Cuban belligerency. Taking up
the policy of the administration, Mr.
Hale said that it had been clearly out
lined in the presidents first message.
The statement of policy was then made,
he said, most clear and conclusive.
The president had in this document
laid down the chart of his conduct as
to belligerency, and had said that ne
would act If occasion should demand
action on his part.
ADMINISTRATION ACTED.
As matter of fact, the administra-
ton had acted, and most effectively,
and one OF his acts had been in refuta-
ton of Mr.. Cannon's assertion that
there were many American citizens i'm
pTisOned in Cuba Since the writing of
the message, the president had taken
such a course as to secure the release
Of all American citizens from Cuban
jails, and there were none now left in
curance in that country. But this was
only one OF the many accomplishments
OF the administration in this field The
president had made an appeal for bene-
factions and had secured the opening
OF the doors for the introduction of
the aid our people have SO freely sent.
Furthermore. the commanding general,
whose barbarous treatment had rem
dered him unpopular, had been re-
moved at the presidents instance. Still
another result was the establishment
of autonomy, which was "a charter of
human liberties. broader and deeper
than IS maintained anywhere on the
globe in a dependency by an Anglo
Saxon government. All this had been
done, but the result of these efforts
was still in the balance. Here, in the
face of these facts, inflammatory reso-
lutions were out Of place.
DO NOT WANT WAR.
The senate was not an infammatory
body and would not be carried off its
feet. Nor did he agree with Mr.. Can
non that the people at large wanted
war. If our people really wanted to
fight they could have gone to Cuba to
do it. He asked, and paused for a re-
ply. for the name of an American citi-
zen with an English name, who had
gone to fight in Cuba. Had the Utah
senator in his mind the name of such
a persona OF the 100000 old soldiers
living. none had gone across the mar
row strip of water that separated Cuba 1
from the United States to fight for the
freedom of that island. 1t was clear
to the Maine senator that the fight /
was to be made liz The United States /
senate, and there only. Mr.. Hale con- /
troVerted the idea that the administra- /
ton had been cowardly in its treat
ment of the Cuban question, SAYING
the facts showed the contrary to be .
true. He closed with q motion to re- I
fer the resolution to the committee on
foreign relations, which was done
without division.
Mr. Cannon again took the floor for a
brief personal explanation bearing upon
The scene in which he had participated
toward the close of his remarks He
said the gentleman TO whose utter
2nces he had taken exception had ex- !
planned to him that the utterances had