The San Francisco call., 1898-03-29
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WASHINGTON, March 2S.-A scene of intense interest was presented In the Senate to-day when the Presidents message transmitting the findings Of the Maine Court of Inquiry was re- ceived The galleries were packed to the doors and the attendance of Sena- tors was quite as large as it has been at any time during the present session.
 Eager to ascertain the full findings of the court, scores of members of the House after the adjournment of that body, had hurried to the Senate cham Der and the floor was crowded with them.
 When the reading of the Presidents message was begun, silence was so marked all over the chamber that one might have heard a pin fall. Through out the reading of the message and the findings of the court there was not the slightest demonstration.
 At 2:01 Executive Clerk Pruden car ried to the Senate the Presidents mes sage transmitting fhe long and much desired report of tAe Court of Inquiry.
 AS Major Pruden was recognized by the Vice President there was hush in the chamber, a majority Of the spec tators expecting that the message and report would be read to the Senate inn mediately.
 Routine business, however, was taken up for a time.
 At 12:17 Morgan of Alabama demand ed the reading of the Presidents mes sage.
 Instantly there was a hush in the chamber Vice-President Hobart at once laid the message before the Sen- ate, and it's reading was begun The closest attention was given by every person within hearing.
 At the conclusion of the reading of the message Davis of Minnesota, chair man of the Committee on Foreign Re lationS, amid buzz of whispered con- versation, rose and requested that the findings of the Court of Inquiry be read.
 At the conclusion of the reading Da- wis moved that the message of the President, the findings of the Court of Inquiry and the testimony taken before the court be referred to the Commit tee on Foreign Relations and ordered printed. It was so ordered.
 Lodge of Massachusetts introduced resolution that 2O00 additional copies of the message, findings and testimony be printed for use of the Senate. The resolution was agreed to.
 Senator Money then spoke of the Gu ban situation. He said that the task ne naQ set nlInSetl was DeiIidpS OIlS of supererogation, as Senators 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 the naked and relieve the sick upon that unhappy island, but he was satis- fled no definite results could be ob tained by the employment of such means alone. He said he was certain that while Weyler was a willing in- strument he was in fact only an in- strument in the hands of a higher power-a power that had deliberately determined upon a plan of starvation and extermination. The frightful and inhuman scheme had originated in the brain of Canovas, the all-powerful Prime Minister of Spain, who preceded Sagasta.
 That plan of recommendation and starvation and death ' declared Money, was deliberately planned, with the definite and distinct purpose in view of