The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-09

given to the findings would aid the ac- cused officials in their defense. In this connection he referred to the. course of the postal prosecutions in Cuba which brought out Q discussion as to the responsibility for the liberation of the officials who were found guilty of frauds in Cuba.
 While this diversion was in progress, MT. Ttliman took occasion to remark that Tn view of the aggressions from the other end of the capitol and the other end of the avenue. Senators were in danger of becoming me too's." This brought out a> remonstrance from MT. Hoar egafnst ''heated expressions'' on the part of the men who might be called on to sit as judges in the case The investiga- tion resolution then was laid aside and the Cuban reciprocity bill taken up.
 Teller Speaks on Cuba. k Mir. Teller opened the debate in behalf of the opposition to the bill first taking up the question of the constitutionality of the method of execution undertaken by the measure. He spoke of the possibility of executive encroachment, saying that if the Senate was to be shorn of its power, 1t would not be by the House of Repre- sentatives nor by any legal instrument. but in obedience to the demands of the executive for cowardly abdication. A*AEs GAkSt c<Ak4 At WdB uOt ttub tlA1I ttiE bill would reduce the price of sugar. He declared that the sugar trust would secure the benefit of the bill, authough ti is said 1t was intended to aid Cuba. The powers behind this bill were. the owners of S0,000,000 acres of sugar lands in Cuba. owned by American citizens: besides the hundreds of millions of dollars of the sugar trust. The public sentiment In favor of this bill had been manufactured in Cuba and the American people were made to believe that unless relief of this kind was granted. there would be riots and starvation in Cuba.
 The manufacturing of this sentiment he charged. was inaugurated by General Wood. who might. he said. be the author of the proposed legislation. backed by the executive with an energy he had never before seen displayed.
 W ood's Pernicious Activity.
 He said General Wood two years ago had sent circulars to Senators urging the passage of the then pending Cuban bill. an act that would have resulted in the cashiertng of any other officer. General Wood had sent out circulars he said. early in September 1901 to Alcaldea and other municipal officers in Cuba urging them to prepare demands on the unlted States of q reduction of the duty on sugar and tobacco. The Senator read circulars. some signed by Adjutant General Scott in the name of the Military Governor. In which this course was advised. He said these publications had been suppressed ae soon as possible. hut he had obtained . copy. He did not pretend to say General Wood was responsible for all subsequent nisrepresentations, but he dld contend that these misrepresentatious were bought and paid for partly by the Cuban Government
 Mr. Teller said that sugar stock had ad- vanced or declined with the fortunes of the hill and added that it WAS In evidence that MT. Havemeyer. of kha American Sugar Refining Company had interested himself financially as had the Cuban Gov ernment. in the ctrculatian of stories oi Cuban distress.
 Mir. Teller did not conclude his remarks.
 AIr. Clapp (Mlnn.) made h speech con- tending that the Senate should not sub feet treaties to the approvn1 of the House as had been done wlsh slils btu.
 Al o'clock the Geo1lte sent into axecu. tyse 6Sssisn a2d aFa Eainukes later ad' doufueds