The age-herald., 1898-04-05

kins was only one of four prepared ad- dresses upon the Cuban question delivered in the senate today.
 After the Cuban speeches had been de- liyered. the senate resumed consideration of tn sundry civil bill and finished three para graphs before adjournment.
 MT Pettigrew presented telegram signed by more than 100 of his constituents, reading:
 All parties here want Spanish torpedo fiotilla turned back or des- troyed. Patience exhausted.
 To Report Without Waiting
 Mr. Turner of Washington introduced a resolution, which he asked should go over until tomorrow, If in the meantime noth- ing Is done in the matter" The resolution directs the committee on foreign relations to report without waiting for the concur renee or the advice of any department or the government what action, if any, in view of the Maine disaster and of the deplorable condition of Cuban affairs, should be taken to preserve the honor and dignity of this country"
 When the resolution offered last Friday by MT. Chandler requesting the secretary of state to send to the senate the Cuban consular correspondence was laid before the senate, MT Davis, chairman of the for eign relations committee, asked that the resolution go over until Wednesday. To this MT. Chandler assented.
 Quite unexpectedly discussion of the Cuban question was precpitated.
 MT. Clay of Georgia spoke, basing his re- marks he said, upon the resolution sub- mitted by MT. Foraker of Ohio, a resolu- tion in favor of independence, and, if neces- sary, armed intervention While he was rnd fn nrf ,fx,c fro tion in action upon the Cuban matter he was desirous that war should be averted if 1t could be by any possibility.
 Diplomatic Solution
 Mr. Clay felt that the administration ought to be afforded every opportunity to bring about @ diplomatic solution of the pending trouble and he felt certain that so long as the legislative branch of the gov errmem was assured that the president was acting with Judgment and patriotism 1t would wait.
 MT. Clay fully realized he said, that in the event of war the south would be a greater sufferer than any other part of the country. Her sea coast cities would he open to attack by the enemy her people would be first called upon to defend their homes from invasion and her commerce would be most seriously crippled. lie would net vote for war unless every effort to bring about a peaceful solution of the present. difficulty was first exhausted
 If, however. the matter could not be set tied diplomaticsr'- 'n consonance With the honor and dign the country, he would favor drastic q
 Independence of Cuba
 q believe" he sad, "in the independence of Cuba and If Spain will not agree to that peacefully the United States must enforce it with all the power of her land and naval forces. The people of the south believe in the peaceful solution of the question if possible but are willing to employ force if necessary.
 This fact ought, in the opinion of MT. Clay to be distinctly communicated to Spain. She ought to be told that the American people absolutely demand the freedom of the Cubans. Then if she does not accede to the demand, the results would be of her own making. In the &C., complishment of Cuba's independence Georgia, the Empire state of the south Mr. Clay said in conclusion, would do her share.
 In opening set speech, MT. Perkins, of California, eulogiZed the conduct of the president for the calm and conservative manner in which he had handed the grave problem presented for his solution.
 Mr. Perkins referred briefly to the scheme instituted by Weyler to starve more than a million of Spanish subjects into submission and declared that nothing in all history compared with the atrocity and brutality that Weyler had exercised against the Cubans. The time for action had, in his opinion, arrived. MT. Perkirs who has had lifetime experience in the handling of great vessels, discussed the destruction of the Maine from the view point of an expert. He declared that our sailors and officers had been beguilded by the deception of the Spaniards to place In a friendly harbor and there, without minutes warning, been blown into enterni- ty.
 Verdict Is Unanimous
 For forty days and nights the people had suspended judgment but now that the facts have been laid before them the verdict he said, is unanimous that the great battle ship was blown up not only from the out side. but with the cognizance of Spanish of ficals for whose acts the spanish govern ment was fully responsible. The explo- siyes, whether they were in mine or a torpedo, were placed under the Maine by officials of the Spanish government The people believe that they were exploded by design and he was one who held to that belief It would have been. impossible he said for any man or set or men 10 piace in the harbor of Havana, mines or torpe- does without the knowledge of the govern ment authorities.
 'This most hideous crime of the nineteenth century," declared MT. Perkins vehemently, ''was an act of war, and I believe it is so re- garded by the nations of the world"
 No offer of reparaton could wipe out the feeling of the people of this country upoh the matter, and intensity had been added to that feeling by the almost frivol- ous manner in which the disaster had been treated by Spain.
 The only honorable action for this coun- try now to take was to Intervene and free Cuba from the yoke of Spain.
 Mir. Mantle of Montana followed with al; extended speech upon the absorbing topic of Cuba, in which he declared that he fa-' vored the independence of the Cuban peo-' pie who for years had been struggling for their freedom.
 "I wouid." he said, ..give my unqualified