The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-30

The speaker-The motion is not debata-
! Bile. N''''"
Mr. Bailey-I understand that II ia not.
simply desire to say before the vote IA
taken that so long as the Cuban resolution
ara the bankruptcy bill are urgiisposed OF
we feel compelled to resist these motions
TO adjourn while the house has nothing TO
do.
Mr. Hawley along with his party again
refused Cuba recognition by voting to adj
journ for three days June II. 1897, vol. 50,
| page 1869.
Mr. Sulzer said he had presented a peti-
ten to the house with GOO, 900 names ask
ing that the Morgan beiligerent resolution
be passed by the house. 1--WE arc vast
ing time here day in and day out while
hunlrede and hundreds of American cit
dzens are languishing in Cuban iails for
| 10 offemse whatever etc
| Hawley ard his colleagues on his side
or the house voted to adjourn June 81 and
"a without doing anything.
~
June % Mr.. Dingley moved that the house
do now adjourn. Immediately after the
reading Of the Journal.
Mr. Baiey--As the gentleman from
Maine has suggested there is no business
| claiming the attention of the house | take
tho liberty Of saying I know there Is We
have the bankruptcy bill ana the Cubsn
resolution, both of which ought to be con-
eidered
The motion to adjourn prevailed with the
vote of r. B. Hawley.
~
Monday, July 7, was the first Monday
in the month and according to tho rules
of the house, motions to suspend tho rules
were in order on the first Monday In each
month.
Mr.. McMil1in--I rise to parliamentary
inquiry, which is this: Monday being un
| uer the rue XXVlII day on which the
speaker can entertain motion to suspend
the rules and pass bills, and today being
only continuation of the legislative dag
ofMonday, is it not in order fer the speak
er TO entertain today a motion to suspend
the mules?
! The Speaker-The chair thinks so.
Mr.. McMilltn-Then desire to suspend
the rules ard pass the resolution recognlz-
ing Cuban hellgeregcy.
Mr.. D.ngley addressed the chair
The Speaker-The gentleman from Maine
| Is recognized. daughter
Mr.. Dingley-I move that the house ad-
1ourn.
Mr.. McMillin--I hope the gentleman
from Maine will not rnterpose any OBJ
stGcle to the consideration OF the Cuban
resolution.
Mr.. Hawley and 1873 other republicans by
their votes aLlIourne1 the house. McMillln
had the floor; under the decision OF the
chGGr, he had stated his question; whlie
the speaker In order that he and his
party might dodge the Cuban question, al
lowed Dingley who was sitting IN his seat
ana tslkirg to those around him to make
a motion to adjourn, thereby taking Me-
Millin off the floor; so again Mr.. Hlwliy
and his republican friends adjourned the
house, while women and Children were
starving and American citizens were rot
ting In Cuban jail5.
The condition OF the people OF Cuba
was then known to all the people OF tho
civilized world and better known to Vhe
members of the republican party than any
others thet composed and was part OF
the Mckinley administration
~
n not. the following testimony from Lead
ing republican senators who had been on
the ground and made an investigation ioi
themselves ought to be proof enough 70
even Mr.. Hawley that this country ouSa'
to act and act ait once regardless OF the
SPANISH bordholders who we're doing all
they could TO crush the cause OF CUBA
and boost their holdings,the Spanish bonus.
Senator GaAinger of New Hampsnir IN
the senate on March 90. 1898, in speaking
OF what came under his personal kno"ieuks
after a visit to the island among otnsr
things said: "The number OIL peohe VIM
have starved in Cuba will never be deiin r ne
ly known. 1t is estimated that Spo'evv
were driven from their homte into me
cities and towns | had from sparisn
authority that according to their figures
225. 900 must inevitably die. making All az
gregate of 625.000. or almost twice me
population of the District cf coiulnNs vi
Of the state of New Hampshire, Wv mnla y, :
picture is that eighty miles from our
shores! And yet this great Nation folds It's
arms and officially asks: Am my bro'h-
er's keeper" -
He could have trutbfull-- said that X. b.
Hawley and a republican house were fe-
eponsible for the condition OF affairs at tnat
time. and that he and his fellow republicans
we're continually fighting any move in their
interest and had been for one year.
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On March "a 1898 In the senate OF the
United States Senator Thurston. renubli-
can who stands high IN his party councils
and who went to Cuba with Senator CALM
ger. among other things said: THE refo-
iutionists are in absolute and almost peace
ful lOssl ssion OF nearly one-haif OIL tne
island including the eastern provinces OF
Santiago de Cuba and Puerto Principe.
In those provinces they have established
forms OF government. lcvvinc and collect-
ing taxes, maintaining armies, anu Eenar
ally levy tax or tribute upon the Drincinai
plantations IN other provinces anu, as u
commonly believed. upon the entire railway
system. of the island.
Under the ii,Aumane policy OF Weyier,
self-suppoiting. simple people defenselsss
country people were driven from thslr
homes in the agricultural portions OF the
Spanish provinces 10 the citiss and iri-
prlsoned upon the barren waste outside
the residence portions OF these dtcs ana
within the ll-es OF Entertainments estao-
lished little beyond,
Their hpmhle homes were burned, their
fields laid waste. their implements OF nus
bandry were destroyed. Their live stock
and food supplies for the most part eontis'
Gated
"Most OF the people were old women ana
\ children. They we're thus placed IN hope
lees Imprisonment without ahelter Or food
They were left there with nnthlng 70 ce-