The record-union., 1898-03-29


Chairman of the Committee on For
pered conversation, rose and requested
that the findings of the Court of In
quiry be read.
In reading the findings the clerks ex-
perienced great difficulty. They had
been placed in typewriter form and
were badly written.
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE
At the conclusion of the reading
Davis moved that the message of the
President, the findings of the Court of
Inquiry and the testimony taken be-
fore the court be referred TO the Com
mite on Foreign Relations, and ordered
printed. 1t was SO ordered.
Lodge (R) of Massachusetts intro
duced a resolution that 1900 additional
copies of the message, findings and
testimony be printed for use of the
Senate. The resolution was agreed to.
MONEY ON THE SITUATION IN
CUBA
Money of Mississippi spoke on the
Cuban situation. He said that the task
he had set himself was perhaps one ofsu-
pererogation, as Proctor, Gallinger and
Thurston had already presented to the
Senate the conditions in Cuba as they
had seen them. Their statements were
concise, brilliant and eloquent, and
While he did not hope to add much to
the information they had furnished,
he felt it his duty to speak, and to
speak now.
Money said he was willing to go to
any extent to feed the starving, clothe
+1e inly
that unhappy island, but he was salts
fed no definite results could be OBJ
tanned by the employment of such
means alone. He said he was certain
that while Weyler was willing in
strument, he was in fact only an in
strument in the hands of a higher
power and a power that had deliber-
ately attempted upon a plan of star
walton and determination. The fright
full and inhuman scheme had originated
in the brain of Canovas, the all-power~
full Prime Minister of Spain who pre-
ceded Sagasta.
THAT plan of recommendation and
starvation and DEATH declared Money
was deliberately planned. with the
definite and distinct purpose in view
of destroying a population that Spain
cannot control-a people in whose
breasts the desire for liberty is as
strongly instilled as it was in the
breasts of our forefathers'
After discussing the situation in
Cuba among the reconcentrados us he
found it, Money declared that much
time had been wasted in efforts to
bring about peace on the island
through autonomy and through diplo-
matte agencies Such negotiations are
not perhaps imbecile," said he. "but
their inutility ought to suggest itself
to the commonest mind"
He declared that independence and in
dependence alone would satisfy the
Cubans, ''as long as the yellow flag of
Spain salutes the sky over the afflicted
island"
Money believed "the Cubans would die
TO man rather than accept anything
less than independence"
Money said there was but one remedy.
and such action by the United States as
would bring the war in Cuba to an end.
He thought we should make decisive de-
mands upon Spain for the cessation of
hostilities in Cuba as we stand respon-
sible to history for our action now. IF
such action should bring war, let war
come. Any sort of war is better" said
he, than rotting peace"
In the present condition of this coun-
try, tempest is needed to clear the
atmosphere, and he was firm in the be-
lief that an honorable war with Spain
would be from many points of view a
desirable cOnsummation of our present
difficulty.
DESPAIR OF PEACEFUL NEGOTIA-
TIONS
Money referred briefly to the message
of the President and to the Maine dis
aster, and then declared that it was not
becoming in Congress to wait the slow
processes of diplomacy. He had con-
fidence in the American Congress. He
did not desire to offer factious opposi-
ton to the Administrations policy, but
for one he would not abdicate his right
to act for himself and those whom he
represented.
This Government, said he. will do
nothing to tarnish the brilliant luster of
/ its past. While we do not and shall not
ask for the approval of other nations,
we will always command their respect.
If any Power, great or small should in
terfere with us, we should still stand un-
daunted. l despair of peaceful negotia-
tions, and now have a contempt for
them
Mason of Illinois gave notice that he
would tomorrow briefly address the
/ Senate upon the Presidents message.
/ When the announcement of Represen-
! tative Simpkins' death was received
from the House, Hoar of Massachusetts
presented the usual resolutions, which
We're adopted
! On Hoar's motion, the Senate then. at
LOO a. m. adjourned.