The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-10

Washington, Feb. SIN anticipation
of the speeches to be delivered on the
relations of the United States and
Spain concerning the Cuban war-a
subject of intense interest to a ma
\ jority of Americans-the galleries were
crowded at an early hour today. In
deed. the public galleries were filed
before the senate convened at u o clock,
and the reserved galleries filled rapidly
soon after noon. The interest was
quite evidently not confined to the
people in the galleries. When the vice
presidents gaveI fell. opening the ses-
sion, a noticeably larger number OF
senators We're present than is usual so
early in the day. The notice given yes
terday by both Senator Cannon of Utah
and Senator Mason OF Illinois that they
would address the senate upon resOlu-
tons they had introduced, served as the
magnet to draw senators from the COM
mittee rooms early in the days SeS-
sion.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Cannon
of Utah yesterday, urging the president
to notify Spain that if she fails to
recognize the Independence Of Cuba be
fore March / next. this government
would then recognize the belligerent
rights of the Cubans. and 90 days
thereafter assert the independence OF
the Cuban republic, was laid before the
senate, and Mr.. Cannon was recognized
to speak on the resolution.
CANNON's OPENING.
Mr. Cannon, in opening his speech,
read from a New York newspaper a
statement in effect that the speeches
to be delivered today would amount to
mere talk, and nothing more harmful
than talk would result from the pres
nf no n in
the senate. Mr.. Cannon said that it
was not mis- purpOse-not the purpose
of those who believed with him-to dis
turb in any way the peace and welfare
of the people OF the United States. He
did not. he said. desire unnecessarily
to reflect upon the policy of the presi-
dent, but there was phase in the
question. in the opinion of 8lr. Cannon,
raised in the newspaper article to
which he had referred. to be considered.
By what authority. he asked, did any
pubic Journal say that nothing more
than talk would result from the con-
sideration of the Cuban question in
congress?
Has some concerted plan been ar
ranged he asked, by which the car
rying into effect the VIII of the people
of this country is TO be undOne2
= want TO say, continued Mr.. Can
non. that something more harmful
than talk viii result from the discus
sion of the Cuban question by con-
gress.
These results viii strike men in
congress and men in high places in
the administration. We have been told
that a policy in the treatment OF this
Cuban question was to be inaugurated
that would startle the country. but
that policy has not yet been devel-
oDed.
CONTEST OF HUNGER
War" continued Mr. Cannon. is
ended in Cuba The war there existed
has developed into a brutal contest of
hunger"
Spain, he thought, had not the cour-
age to pursue its operation against the
patriots in the field. The government
OF Madrid was bankrupt, her greatest
statesmen had passed away, and in the
conduct of the Cuban war she had
adopted Z policy TO subdue her enc
mics by bribery and starvation. Should
the efforts of Spain succeed. the result
would be TO saddle upon the people of
Cuba the enormous debt OF $500 600 GEO.
debt that has been incurred in a vain
effort to subdUe the spirit OF liberty
manifested by the Cuban patriots.
after some discussion OF general fea- /
tu1es ot the Cuban question. Air Can /
non said: 7 charge now that the Dur- /
pose Of the administration IS in cOnso-
nance with the wishes Of the Spanish .
cured in Cuba, security for the pay
nent Of that tremendous debt must be I
given by the biOod-stained island. That (
I say. appears to be the wish Of rhe ad- /
ministration, and, I may say, of Spain"
PRESIDENTS POWER.
Referring to the resolution as it was
presented when Ar. Mckinley assumed /
the presidency. Ar. Cannon said il was
almost an earthly omnipotence which
the president possessed and possesses
now. The recognition OF the belligerent
rights of the Insurgents would have
been Of immense advantage at any time
during the present war, but now such
recognition would absolutely terminate
the terrible struggle. MIR. Cannon
thought it peculiarly significant that
every SDaniard and every SDaniard
sympathizer was opposed to the recog-
nitiOn of the belligerency of the Cuban
patriots. while every Cuban had main
tanned from the first that such recog-
milton would be OF such advantage as
to enable them to wrest victory from
what otherwise might possibly be de-
feat If the chief executive of this
country had dreamed, when he entered
upOn his duties, of the power that was
20 be conferred by his oath upon him.
ii would scarcely have been possible for
him to conceive Of a greater opportu-
nifty TO set a people free than was then
presented to him. His signature to a
document would now set that people
free What is it that stays the hand of
Mckinley? We have waited long, but
our waiting has been in vain; our cup
of waiting IS now full
SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.
A sensational interruption of Mr..
Cannon occurred. There was q buzz of
conversation among the spectators
members of the house of representa-
tives. who lined the inner walls of the
senate chamber-when Mr.. Hale of ]
Maine addressed the vice president. He I
expressed the hope that order might be
preserved. and the rules of the senate .
strictly observed. Just as the inter ;
ruption occurred, Mr.. Cannon had made ]