The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-09

| appropriating funds of people of the
/ United States, large sums of money to
| Ieed ana clothe our citizens and to
| return them to our country and now
| the Spanish war measure of concen-
| trafion has continued so far that con-
| centradoes are unfed and starving.
| naked and filthy, insomuch that dis
| ease and death is among them and
mas spread into our own country. Hun
dreds of thousands have perished in
this way and by this means The un-
noiy work of determination goes on !;
the slaughter of innocents and nom
combatants goes on. The flag of truce
has been abandoned and extermina-
ton or the independence of the insur-
gents must be the final outcome The
people of the United States are send
ing money and food and clothing to
Cuba to aid the dying which ought 10
be furnished by Spain for the reason
that the concentradoes are legitimate
wards of Spain, having been put in
their present condition as a Spanish
war measure and their care would de-
volve upon Spain and would be so re-
garded by every civilized nation in the
world.
Under the present charity seeking
OF the administration charitabIy dis
posed citizens of the United States can
iioI Unit flOHey, neQlrlfe, IOOQ
or clothing to the insurgents in the
held or hospitals and should any at
tempt be made to do so it would be
captured and prevented by order of
the government of the United States.
All parties declared before the last
eiectlon In favor of the independence
OF Cuba. The people of the United
States do not seek to acquire title to
cuba nor do they seek to gain adyan-
tage IN any way directly or indirectly
OF any nation by reason of this bar
barlsm called war. They do not com
PLAIN OF our loss of trade with Cuba
and have patiently borne the assault
on the health of the people bv the filth
OF Spanish rule in Cuba. They seek
no redress for loss of business or
health or money. They have patient
~ waited. not wishing even Indirectly
10 interfere with the affairs of other
nations until the stencil on our very
pofdefs mas passed endurance and the
barbarous situation in Cuba has be-
come a stain upon our continent and a
blot upon our Christian civilization.
The people of the United States de-
manding no personal profit. having no
lear and seeking no favor, clear and
conscious as to the justice of our posi-
ton do in the presence of the civ
iiized nations of the world and in the
name of justice and liberty demand
that the so-called war in Cuba must
cease
Mr.. Stewart of Nevada secured the
ADOPTION OF a resolution directing the
postmaster general to send to the sen
ate the cost of handling various classes
of mail ma tier
Bllls were passed ratifyng the agree
ment between the Dawes commission
and the Seminole nation of Indians
ana 70 amend an act declaring a certain
bridge across the Tallahatchie river in
Mississippi a lawful structure.
In accordance with notice previously
given, Mr.. Chandler called up the reso-
luton in regard to the Corbett case and
made a speech in favor of seating tho
claimant as senator from Oregon.
Mr.. Chandler submitted in opening
MS argument in opposition to the pro-
posed resolution supplementary state
ment from MIR. Corbett himself, in
which he discussed some points of the
case and defined his personal position.
Mr., Chandler then began his re-
marks.
In an extended argument Mr. Chand-
Ter maintained that whenever a va
cancy occurred in the senate and the |
legislature Of the state had failed to
Ill the vacancy, the governor of the |
state had the constitutional right to |
MI IT by appointment. He said it was |
perfectly plain to him. as the evident
intention of the trainers of the consti- |
u'ioi, tHde ene governor OF stale |
should have the right to appoint in case |
the vacancy existed While the legisla- I
-ure was not in session
Alter an extended legal discussion of I
he meaning Of certain words and I
phrases in the clause of the eonstitu-
ion bearing upon the choice OF sena-
ors Mr.. Chandler said he went to the
INIT. maintaining that the plain and
inequtvocal meaning of the statute
vas that in no possible circumstances.
Except where the Legislature was act
tally in session at the time the an
continent was made. was it right fer
he senate to refuse to seat an ap-
'ointee of governor of a state.
At the conclusion of Mr.. chandler's
'emarks the senate. on motion of Mr.
Davis, chairman of the foreign rela-
ions committee, went into executive |
session and at $50 p. m. adjourned.