The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-14
BIG
TALK
BEGUN
Senate Takes Up the Cuban
Resolution
Submitted by the Foreign Re-
IatiOns Committee.
TURNER LEADS OFF
With a Long and TiresOme
Speech.
"Granny' HOar Follows With a
Peaceful Harangue.
MAGNIFIES DANGER.
With a Long and TiresOI
Speech.
"Granny" HOar Follows With a
Peaceful Harangue.
MAGNIFIES DANGER.
Says the Country Wants No
More Bull Runs.
Will Be No Vote Before TOmOr-
row Night.

Washington, April 14@The conserva-
tive senators have decided to make
fight for the house Cuban resolutions,
and will act in accord to that end. An
effort is being made to have the sena-
tors of different views unite upon the
majority report in order to secure early
action.
Conferences looking to this end have
been held during the day. Senator Da-
Wis says he will press the Cuban resolu-
tions with diligence.
He hopes some arrangement can be
made looking to early action.
The senators who are anxious for ear
ly action on the Cuban resolutions have
determined to hold continuous sessions
if there is any disposition to delay act
ion by debate.
The more radical senators say there
are votes enough to adopt the Turpie
amendment, recognizing the present
Cuban government. Those who think
this is possible, seem to think the house
and senate will then compromise on
substantially the majority resolutions
of the senate committee.
Washington, April 14-The action of
the house of representatives yesterday
in adopting its declaration upon the
H1Spano-Amer1can situation, made the
senate today the storm center of the
war elements. The galleries were pack
ed and the thousands were turned
away.
Mr.. Hale (Me.) presented a memorial
from the National Civic club of Brook
lyn, calling attention to the necessity
in the event of war with Spain, of re-
pealing some of the present navigation
laws. The laws, as they are at present,
it is said, would prevent our merchant
vessels from sailing under a foreign flag
while every Spanish merchantmen
would be under the French flag
Our ships would, therefore, be proved
upon by Spanish privateers.
Mr.. Hale said the question raised was
a most serious one. He thought it
would be mOrtifying and humiliating to
this country for its vessels, engaged in
commerce, to fly the flag of any other
country than our own. He asked that
the memorial be referred to the COM
mittee on commerce, which, he hoped
would give it thoughtful consideration
Mr.. Penrose Pa.) presented a tele-
gram from Philadelphia, which read as
follows:
House resolution, dishwater; Davis
resolution, satisfactory. Remember the
Maine
A message was received from the
house, transmitting to the senate the
Cuban resolution passed by the house.
BY unanimous consent, at the request
of Mr.. Davis, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, the resolution yes
terday reported by the foreign relations
committee, was laid before the senate.
Mr. Turner CWn) began a speech in
which he sharply criticised the adminis-
tration for it's ttvacillating and irreso-
lutte, cowardly and pusillanimous policy
pursued by it in the Cuban question:
He said that the developments of the
past two weeks had shaken his faith in
-I,r hold In
confidence.
Mr.. Hoar followed Mr.. Turner. He
thought the present was no time for
impassioned rhetoric and manifesta-
tions of approval of war sentiment. He
did not feel disposed to sneer at express
sions of emotion over the outrages of
the Cuban war, for they indicated true
natures. They called for his profound
est respect AS for himself, he felt like
entering upon the Cuban question with
the seriousness with which he would
attend church. If we are going to en-
ter upon a<course of action in Cuba, it
should be done as an act of justice and
not of revenge. He did not accept the
doctrine in this connection of an eye for
an eve and a tooth for a tooth
Mr. Hoar deprecated the exhibitions
of feeling toward the president, who
was, he said, in diplomacy, the repre-
sentative of all the people. For him
self. he not only approved what the
president had done, but what he had
refrained from doing.
Mr. Hoar said that in case of war,
we could count upon many disasters
like that of the Maine, and a great in
crease of the public debt.
He said that Senator Turner, who
represented only half a state, was MAX
ing the president who represented As
states the subject of the same kind of
objurgations which were inflicted upon
Washington. He predicted that Nc
Kinley's fame would not suffer.
Mr.. Hoar said it would be well for the
impetuous people of this day to re-
member Abraham Lincoln's counsels in
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