Show MORGAN ARRAIGNS LEOPOLD. Charges Cruelty to People of Congo Free State. Washlngton.--Senntor Morgan reported re-ported favorably from tlio committee ot foreign relations on Friday his resolution resolu-tion calling on tho president for Infer motion as to any concessions Americans Ameri-cans may havo received from King Icopold for the gathering or India rubber In tho Congo Froo stato. Tho Morgnn statement recites how capitalists ot tho civilised nations are pushing Into the rubber forests "with all manner of monopollstlo nrrnngo ments for subjecting this great product pro-duct tho gift of nature to thelt craving for wealth." Ho arraigns King 1-t-opold "for the manner In which ho has exploited the Congo lands In accumulating wealth tc himself by imposing tnskH of porsunnl labor to tlio cxtremo of cruolty upon tho nntlvo population." Mr. Morgan charges that concessionaires conces-sionaires havo been ompoworod by King Leopold to "exercise tho Bamo distressing authority over tho people over which they havo proceeded to ontorco without restraint and without tho responsibilities to public opinion which should check their nvarlco and greod In dcalng wth an Ignorant and subjugatod people." |