Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-03-31
GALLlyCER ON CUBA.
New Hampshire Senator Depicts
the Horrors Of Concentration.
The MAINE VICTIMS RELIEF BILL.
Tho Measure Passed In the Senate without
Word Of Debate-The Virginia Con-
tested Election Case Settled
Cuban Recognition.

of concentration on the island of Cuba
was drawn in the senate yesterday by
Senator Gallinger, Of New Hampshire.
The senator recently visited Cuba to
study the situation there. Long be-
fore the senate convened the galleries
were packed. Almost as soon as the
senate convened Senator Bacon, OF
Georgia, introduced joint resolution
declaring that the United States
should do everything in its power to
preserve peace with all the nations of
the world and not be forced into war |
except to preserve the honor and dig
nifty Of the nation. He said that he |
would ask for immediate consideration |
of the resolution, but would pc rmit it
to lie on the table until the morrow.
Then Senator Hale, of Maine, chair.
man of the naval affairs committee,
quietly rose and favorably reported
the bill providing for relief for the
survivors Of the Maine catas trophe
There was suppressed murmur OF ex-
pectancy in the galleries, but the
measure was read and passed without
word ~ debate
sorotor laIl;noer,s sreach followed.
He spoke in low, clear tone OF voice,
distinctly audible throughout the
ch.mhar There was MT an ;pterrun.
t;on bv word throuchout his descrin.
tion Of the horrors and cruelties sui.
tered NV Tho reconcentrados When
ha declsred however that a govern.
ment that would starve 4O0 600 Of its
noonlo would do .rvth;no and fol.
lowed this with the further declara-
t;on that tho lives of the brave men
lost in tho Maine disaster could not he
.tonod for With oold or silver a snon-
taraors wava NJ annlause swent over
tho rol,oriss and tba vice nresident
had dif,crltv In restorinc order When
No nod concluded ha was accorded a
hrrst NJ annlause which the vice nresi.
dor+ ,oaa i;tt,a afrort IN rastra;n
Sorator C.rtar of Montana then
.,,,aa - .ho M mol,;nr frrtbsr nro-
vision for civil government for
ALASKA ond rasrmod b;s sneacb heopn
Tuasdav unon the measure After a
RIFT d;.eussion Of tho b;ll hv Senator
Carter SENATOR perkins Of California
offared Iona amendment to the meas.
ure nrovidinp for the nlacinp of IL.
oonse rnon almost every kind of busi.
mace and for tbe taxing and regulation
"a tho ,;oror traffic
sonotor Allan from tho committee
IN elaine fovora blv rerorted tho hill
for tho rolief a. tbe pniversitv If Kan.
sac The hin nronoses to reimburse
the university in the sum If soo Goa for
damages ransed nv a denutv United
states Marcia. and shariff with a
nosse for DESTROYING the Free State
school owned nv the New ENGLAND
Emigrant Ala comnanv which pre-
snnted claim for DAMAGES and which
claim was transferred bv the compapv
hefore its dissolution IN the univer.
sitv Of Kansas
A. tvo o,clock the unfinished busj-
rees tba national quarantine hill was
-. d Sa,o,o. CaHor,, "a
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Louisiana, resumed MS speech peguh
T-nuln,, IL, of TIM hill Thp
sneech was purelv n LEGAL argument in
fo, 90 tha no,d;nn hil s.notor
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