The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-16
NO VERDICT
REACHED
IN Senate.
Cuban Question Debated
Far Into Night,
But No Vote Taken on Amy Of
the Resolutions.
Agreement Reached to Take Final
Action To-Day.
A Sensational Incident Occurs During the
Debate Which Nearly Results In a
Collision Between Senators
Money and Wellington.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Sen
ate of the United States is still in the
throes of discussion of the Hispano-
American crisis While the Senate
talks the people of the country-of the
civilized World-await it's verdict. That
verdict will be returned in accordance
with an agreement reached late tonight
some time during the legislative day of
tomorrow. That legislative day may
extend into Sunday.
After the debate had continued for
eight hours to-day, an effort was made
to reach an agreement to begin the vote
upon all of the pending resolutions at
o'clock tomorrow evening, and in the
confused colloquy among Senators there
was made manifest for the first time
disposition to filibuster.
Caffery of Louisiana, although dis
claiming any intention to delay action
unduly, objected to any agreement to
the fixing of time to vote. The debate
then proceeded, but in a few minutes,
w tllluS lOIl VI Aldl ClltN4Co Il lilS
ton to adjourn. This was defeated by
the decisive vote of 81 TO 10.
The emphatic manner inawhich the de-
cision was reached indicated deterni-
nation on the part of those Senators
who desired immediate action to en-
deavor to force the Senate to remain in
continuous session either until the
question was finally disposed of, or I'M
til an agreement had been reached for
vote to be taken at some specific time
in the future, to be measured by hours.
At s o'clock tonight another effort
was made to reach an agreement to adj
journ, but it, too, was unavailing.
The scene in the Senate this afternoon
as to the war of words that was being
waged was a memorable one. This
will pass into history as one of the great
days of the Senate. Thronged galleries
looked down upon the circular chamber
below, where were assembled scores of
men who had written pages of Amerf-
can history. With one exception every
member of the Senate was there. and
the exception, Walthall of Mississippi,
was confined to his bed i'll. among the
distinguished audience were hundred
or more of the members Of the House
Of Representatives, Justices Of the Su-
dents Cabinet and others prominent in
the life of the country.
1t was an inspiring-a historic scene,
and one rarely witnessed even in this
country of great and notable assem-
blages. The speeches were brilliant
The debate, beginning at the unus-
ual hour of 10 o'clock, continued far
into the night, and yet the throngs re-
manned as if held under some spell.
During the day speeches were deliver
ed by Cullom of Illinois. Berry of Ar
kansas, Daniel of Virginia, Tillman of
South Carolina, Wolcott of Colorado,
Spooner of Wisconsin, Chiffon of Tex
as, and as this is being written Teller
of Colorado and Stewart of Nevada.
Fully twenty other Senators are on the
Vice-President's list for speeches.
All the deliverances were character
lied by brilliance and eloquence, but it
is no detraction from the effort of any
man to say that the notable utterances
were made by Wolcott, Daniel and
Spooner. Daniel carried aloft the flag
of recognition of the Cuban Republic
independence, while both Wolcott and
Spooner magnificently supported the
policy of the President and the Foreign
Relations Committee in favor of armed
intervention with ultimate indepen-
dence
Amid all the talk, however, it is not
apparent that a single vote on the
main question has been changed. The
minds of Senators are made up as
clearly as is Americas against Spain.
A sensational incident, not really
growing out of the debate upon the
pending question, occurred at 9:2o to-
night. In a personal squabble over
the recent trip made by Money of Mis-
sissippi to Cuba, between him and We'll
lington of Maryland, Wellington charg-
ed Money with speaking in the Senate
as the agent of a New York news
paper, when, after a heated colloquy,
Money said: you lie," to the Mary
land Senator. Subsequently Money
apologized to the Senate for using lam
parliamentary language.