The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-15

hold Spanish or Cuban bonds. Politics
ended at the shore line. We were here
as Americans to support an American
president While he supported the COM
mittee resolutions, he favored the reso-
luton offered by Mr.. Frye, which is
also favored by four other members of
the committee. The circumstances and
close proximity OF Cuba, made it neces-
sary to intervene now TO put an end TO
the existing conditions in shat island
SITUATION is INTOLERABLE
I'VE have waited until the situation
has become intolerable,' said Mr..
Gray, and we can wait no longer.
believe the president did everything in
his power to secure an honorable peace,
but he has now turned the question
over TO congress and we must take the
momentous steps which we are now
about to take. These are the reasons
which actuate US in taking this
drastic step. The nations of the world
will applaud our action, but il they
should not, God help them and the
civilization which they represent. Out
ragged nature cannot longer stand that
which we have been called upon TO
endure. God would hold us responsible
if we continued to hold our peace"
Mr.. Gray maintained that the recog-
milton of independence would at this
time be improper
Mr.. Gray concluded with brilliant
tribute to the American manhood
which rally to the cry OF humanity and
outraged womanhood, and, if neces-
sary. die TO preserve the honor and
dignity OF the United States.
SENATOR DAVIS.
Mr.. Davis, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, in a statement,
said he thought the time had now come
for him to ask the senate, owing to the
eXigencies of the situation, to limit
the debate in progress. He asked,
therefore, unanimous consent that the
debate close at o'clock tomorrow, and
at that time vote be taken upon the
pending resolutions.
Objection was made by Mr.. Daniels,
of Virginia
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska said he was
ready to vote now, and inquired of Mr..
Davis If he were also willing to vote.
Il should be delighted" replied Mr.
Davis, and he then asked unanimous
consent that the vote be taken at once.
Il object" shouted Mr. White of Cal
ifornia. Mr.. White explained that he.
among others, desired to speak upon
the momentous issues before the SEN
ate, and expressed the opinion that
haste would be inadvisable.
Mr.. Teller suggested that the debate.
from now on, be limited to speeches of
10 minutes duration.
UNREASONABLE DIRECTOR.
81 object" again shouted Mr. Dan
iel.
Mr.. Davis then made the request that
a vote be taken at 8 o'clock tomorrow
night.
Mr.. Allison of Iowa said that he was
agreeable. and suggested that the last
four hours be devoted to speeches not
exceeding 10 minutes.
Again Mr.. Daniel objected.
Returning with another proposition.
Mr.. Davis asked that a vote be taken
tomorrow before the adjournment IF
the senate. To this objection was also
made.
Mr.. Chandler of New Hampshire in
quired of Mr.. Davis if it We're not his
intention to ask for a continuous ses-
sion of the senate if no agreement to
limit debate could be reached.
Undoubtedly it is" replied Mr.. Da-
Wis.
Mr.. Caffrey said that no good inter
est could be subserved by immediate
action. There could be no aid that
would be substantial given to the re-
concentrates, who were the worst suf-
ferers by the Cuban struggle.
Those poor people" interjected Mr..
Morgan of Alabama, ARE now dying
at the rate of LOO a day, while we are
inactive"
PATHWAYS TO CUBA.
Mr.. Frye of Maine, gaining a recog-
milton of the president, said: Il Will
answer the senator from Louisiana CAir
Caffrey) and tell him that the path
ways from the United States to the
island of Cuba will be made by our
ships of war. and following in those
pathways will go the vessels of peace,
loaded with food and provisions for the
starving people of Cuba, which will be
distributed among them for their re
lief instantly upon a landing on the
island" Tremendous applause on the
floor and in the galleries.)
SENATOR FAIRBANKS.
Mr. Fairbanks (Rep.. Ind then took
the floor He said: Mr.. President, /
have not been for either peace at any
price or war at any cost. l have been
steadfastly for peace, if it could be
honorably, and for war if
the national dignity and honor 1e-
quires it.
The war that has been waSed on the
island of Cuba has been in disregard
of modern warfare. 1t has been with
out a counterpart in its brutalities and
its destructiveness, and the moral sense
of the civilized nations has been
and aroused as never before.
I'm view of our relations 10 the is
land we are morally bound to put an
end to the wrongs, the outraSes, the
evils which flow from Spanish misrule.
We have repeatedly rendered to the
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end the way in Cuba. and TO restore
peace. Our offers uniformly have been
rejected Many of the concessions we
have demanded. however, have been
granted to the insurgents.
OPEN POLICY.
Coming down rapidly to the situa-
ton which Mr.. Mckinley found on as
Stunning the presidency, Mr.. Fairbanks
said:
The presidents policy was an open
one, known to the world; it was peace
with honor above and beyond all else,
and war with honor only as the last
dread emergency"
Continuing, the senator reviewed he
acts of the administration in securing
the release of Americans from Spanish
prisons, the withdrawal of Weyier and
the resembling of the recommendation
order, but he said this relief had come
too late, and that upon the Spanish
people was the blood of 100000 victims
of Weyler's misrule.
MAINE DISASTER.
Turing TO the Maine disaster. he de-
clared that the Spaniards were respOn-
sible. too, for the lives of those Ameri-
can sailors who persisted with the ship.
The American people had weighed al!
the evidence. and no doubt remained in
their minds but the massacre of our