The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-19

government of the American colonies at the head of which was George Washington, rebel. The Spanish cortes will meet next Wednesday and it is important that the voice of the Ameri- can congress in favor of Cuban free dom and independence should roach the cortes. The senator from Indiana, MT. Turpie, is the author of the clause for which the senate has pronounced by it's two votes, with a majority of fourteen. The senator from Ohio, MT. Foraker, was the only republican on the foreign relations committee who advocated that clause and now it is proposed that a conference committee shall be ap- pointed on which neither of these sena- tors shall be-a committee of three senators, every one of whom is against the proposition for which the senate has twice voted. It seems to me that the enemies of Cuban freedom, who have taken charge of the movement | and who do not mean that it shall not | go forward except under their auspices 1 and with their consent, ought, at least, | to allow the decision of the matter to | be in the hands of its friends" Mr. | Chandler said that in the interest of immediate action, republican senators | who had voted for the freedom of Cuba | were willing to make some sacrifices. l This was the first note sounded on the senate floor of the intention of the ten republicans yielding their proposition Foraker.
 | MT. Foraker said: I want to say, in answer to the suggestion that I should l hn Of thn hot be satisfied to have the chairman name the conference committee, and indeed I should prefer that he do so. want some action to be taken.'
 l Frye.
 l MT. Frye said: q am against the present recognition of the alleged re- 1 public of Cuba. I believe that such recognition belongs to the president of the United States and not to congress, and believe that in my place some sen- ator on the foreign relations commit tee ought to be appointed who holds views diametrically opposite to mine. The senator from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) is the father of this proposition to rec | ogniZe the Cuban republic now, and trust that the vice president will ap- l pOlII HILL l fldNG Dctu SllGIlL dll | through this discussion because wanted action. Now, for Gods sake, let us do something to relieve those | poor people in Cuba. Every American | consul and every American citizen has | left the island. The Red Cross has been removed and has come north, l Every hour is freighted with the death l of women and chiudren, and we should not delay our action minute. I be- lieve that if we act now, within ten | days Cuba will be free, provisions will be given the starving; if not, our guns | will be laundering at Morro Castle.'
 Appeal for Recognition.
 MT. Lindsay made strong appeal | for the recognition of the independence | of the island. MT. Teller said that 1t
 was apparent that if vote were talk | en now the senate would change the
 position it took last Saturday night and | this afternoon, and suggested that they might as well settle the matter al once.
 Before Adjournment. l MT. Foraker suggested that the whole 1 question could be disposed of before adjournment tonight if the conference members on the part of the senate were changed.
 MT. Tillman, addressing Mir Spoonel by name, asked if he could give him assurances that the administration would not saddle the Spanish bonds
 upon the Cubans.
 MT. Spooner replied: q challenge
 the decency of the senator from South
 Carolina in putting such an interroga-
 tory to me by name. The suggestion to be sent out from here in such an ex- igency as now confronts this country is little less than a stand upon the president of the United States"
 MT. Tillman said: eff I can accom-
 plish my purpose in preventing the
 possibility of fastening this debt upor
 the people I shall be satisfied to take
 all the odium that may attach to it."
 MT. Allen then withdrew substi.
 tute motion, and the motion made by
 MT. Davis that the vice president
 should appoint the conferees was car.
 ried. The vice president appointed Mir
 Davis, MT. Foraker and MT. Morgan
 The senate then took recess until
 o'clock.