The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-30
FORAKER WEARY OF WAITING
HIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.
Some Home Thrusts of the Ohio Sen
ator-Synopsis of Proceedings In
Senate and House.

Washington, March 29-In the senate,
after Mr.. Foraker presented his resolu-
ton recognizing the independence of
Cuba and favoring armed intervention,
he rose and asked that the resolution go
TO the foreign relations committee. He
said that his resolution had been long
delayed. He intended, he said, to present
II at the opening of the session last
December, but withheld it at that time
because the presidents message gave
promise that within reasonable time
definite and decisive action would be
taken by the administration so soon as
autonomy should be given fair trial. A
reasonable time seems now TO have
elapsed.
The people of the country realize that
all the necessary time has been given
Spain to bring peace to the stricken
island. Autonomy, Mr.. Foraker declared,
had failed, but just as its failure was
realized, the country was confronted by
the De LONE incident. Scarcely. had the
excitement created by this subsidized when
what has been styled the Maine incl
dent threw the country into hurricane
of excitement.
Since that time" said the senator,
we have been waiting patiently and
under restraint for the report of the
board of inquiry. That report is now be-
fore the committee on foreign relations.
Whatever may be done as to the Maine
incident, action must come on the general
Cuban question:
Senator Foraker said he hoped at a
later date to address the senate at length
upon his resolution.
Mr.. Frye (Me.), said he had not in
tended to offer d resolution at this time,
but in view of others proposed he would
present the one he had prepared. The
resolutions were all, except Mr.. Aliens,
referred TO the committee on foreign re-
lations.
At the conclusion of the presentation of
resolutions. Mr.. Mason Qlls), was re-
cognized for speech on the president s
message of yesterday.
After Mr.. Masons speech the senate
passed "A private pension bills and fol-
lowed this order with eulogies on the late
Senator Earle of South Carolina.
One of the most remarkable eulogieS
probably ever delivered in the senate was
that pronounced by Mr. Tillman. He and
Senator Earle had been longtime Doliti-
cal antagonists; in the common accept
ance of the term, had never feen friends
or political allies. In paying a brilliant
tribute to the late senator. Mr.. Tillman
said he felt that if he failed to pay it,
the hiStor- of the fame and virtues OF
testimony which he alone could give.
The house today quietly proceeded with
the order of the day. the consideration of
private bills. No opportunity was afford
ed under the rule of debating the all
absorbing topic, but members stood
about the cloak rooms and Hobbies all day
long, discussing the situation. The most
intense feeling was manifested The
house. after passing a bill to pension the
widow of General John L. Stevenson, at
the rate of $50 per month. devoted the
whole day to the consideration of the bill
to pay certain claims for stores and sup
plies furnished to the Union by loyal
citizens of the south during the war.
There was a bitter contest over a claim
of $4,000 preferred by the heirs of the
widow of General Robert E Lee. She in
herited the claim from Mrs. FitZhugh,
her aunt who. it was admitted, was
loyal The claim was finally stricken out.
but the house recessed before the bill was
pasSed.