The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-28

kont bis course, refusing to be ooerced
a. 5riven or turned aside, calm in the
annrohation of his own conscience and
erateful for the confidence OF men OF
sense. 4a I'm III, ,.xoo4
,.osno,sihilitv he has kept before his face
one supreme and ultimate thing, the I'D,
eTty Of Cuba. and with 1T the peace ana
happiness of his own country.
ffbe yyorlc will hold in increasing non
| or that brave and kindly man VINO ia the
midst of an unexampled clamor, ni Az, itps
sealed by the very nature Vi nio Lu ~
has had the moral hefolsll. &c the
smallest chance remained TO s1sinu 90 yno
magistrate of Christian peopie eAotois-
| inp the influence of his office for an non-
orable peace
The fact that all these humane asplra.
lions of our government have ca1ieu ou1
no adequate response either from aasal 10
or Madrid, fully verifies the pl Ua,s, =.
Spain drawn by the historian I. DncH ~.
she sleeps on unmoved, unneeuins, III ~.
passive, receiving no impression rom 9no
outside world and making no impression
upon it,"
Even the events of the last two months
in which our people have waited IN Pltl-
full suspense while board OF onicers
famous and hoEored in the service nave
taken testimony that tells the awful
tragedy of our Inflated man-of war, nave
not awakened her. That testimony, IN
Guiding the unanswerable witness OF the
wreck itself, is now before the world, anu
if the national Indignation has not long
since avenged the CHASTITY crime IL is
Il because all hearts have been stirred by
the revelation of crime still more ghast-
II ly-the atrocity which deliberately
planned the determination of an entire
community and within sight of our own
shores. has turned the fairest landscape
of the earth into hideous spectacle OF
cruelty and torture.
The despair of men and women, the
4 bitter cry of starving children, tho ago
MES of the living, the skeletons OF the
dead, these incredible realities in Spanish
warfare, have driven from the minds OF
the American people all thought of them
selves. of their commerce scattered to the
winds, of their property despoiled, OF
their countrymen cast into dungeons, OF
their seamen entrapped and assassinated.
all thought even of the ragged little
army of freedom yon Ter in the invincible
mountains Of Santiago. and have filed
the heart of the great republic with
sense OF its divine mission to extend help
and mercy to the perishing multitudes
of that wasted and stricken.population.
We cannot stop now to put forward a
claim to be reokoned in the coinage. OF a
bankrupt treasury for the noble ship
which lies today broken and dismantled
in the most infamous harbor Of all the
seas. We do not know how to find any
paltry calculation the equivalent of hui
man lives. We will not betray our dead.
The nation OF America, in the fear OF
God, counting all the COST, exacts from
Spain indemnity in full for the abuses
Of the past. Not thu spoil of subjugated
provinces, but the OF an OPP
pressed race, not the ransom of besieged
cities, but the nobler satisfaction OF rails
ing the flag of free commonwealth, to
keep watch with tender gratitude forever
above the dust OF the unforgotten heroes
of the Maine.
of the ladies in the galleries wept and
when he.concluded his brilliant perora-
ton there was not dry eye in the vast
hall
The demonstration which followed con-
tinued for several minutes.
Mr.. Bell, Populist Of Colorado, in stat
ing the position of the Populists, an
bond provision of the bill. Nothing, he
declared, could cause such shudder
among the people of the country as the
announcement that they were to be sad
died with another bond issue.
MIR. Sayers, Democrat Of Texas, in a
ten minute speech said that the bill pro-
lposed to place at the disposal of the gov
eminent $500, 0O0,OO in addition to the
ordinary revenues. The expenses of the
civil was in 1864 were 81 100, 900, 600. But
the government WAS then supporting an
army OF 1000, 600 men and fleets contain
ing four times as many warships as we
now have. While no one would go far.
nentss with the fact before him, he felt
convinced that $500, 100000 was vastly
too large a sum to appropriate. 1t was
dangerous. The corridors of the capitol
already swarmed with men seeking fat
contracts. The President would be more
than human if he could resist their i'm
portunities.
/. Then, discussing the provisions of the
bill he asked why the taxes were to be
exclusively levied against the poor. Why
did not the rich railroads bear part of the
burden? Why did not the colossal Stan
dard Oil Co., bear its share? The bur.
den should fall equally upon all in this.
Mr.. Lacey, Republican of Ohio, gave
notice of an amendment to prevent the
invalidation of instruments on which the
stamps due were inadvertently omitted.
Mr.. Ridgeley, Populist of Kansas,
closed the debate with some brief remarks
in oppositions to the bond feature of the
7; bill.
i At O'Clock the House recessed until
s O'Clock.
The night session of the House was de-
voted to brief speeches by members who
were unable to secure time during the
day. Many of the speakers only had time
to ask permission to extend their remark
in the record.
Only two Republicans Mr.. Gibson OF
Tennessee and Mr. Olmstead of New York
spoke tonight. The Democrats and Popu-
lists all opposed the bond proposition.
The speakers were Messrs. kledorg,
i Democrat of Texas, Wheeler, Democrat
| of Kentucky, Lewis, Democrat of Wash
, ington, Greene, Populist OF Nebraska,
Cowherd, Democrat Of Mississippi, Bon
ton. Democrat Of Missouri, Vadiver,
Democrat Of Missouri, Davis Democrat
of Florida, Devries, Democrat of Cali
! fornia, Lentz, Democrat of Ohio, and Mr..
Mcdowell, Democrat of Ohio.
At 1o.30 the House adjourned.