Show AIUMATIN IN THE SENATE Another Stirring Chapter in the SpanishCuban Controversy MAN SENATORS ANXIOUS f 4 Cialleries Crowded with Most Anxious People t XTulc of Maine Makes the Speech ol v the Day but in Opposition to tin F fleoIu HonSpirit of JIIJurlnl Ahrond in the Land and it Involves In-volves War with All Its Dreadful Dread-ful Consequences A Dramutic Incident In-cident The Dtipont Cae lleJtlhc I I T WASHINGTON March 0 Another stirring stir-ring chapter in the SpanishCuban controversy con-troversy was aOded by the senate Klay < Many senators indicated a desire to be heard on the subject and the conference report accepting iho house Cul an resolutions resolu-tions wont ove until tomorro In anticipation that the stage of the Cuban question would he reached the senate sen-ate galleries were besieged by the greatest great-est crowd seen since the session opened 1 of the public and reservod galleries were filled to overflowing with long line of anxious jeople standing in the outer II corrIdor EAGER TO GAIN ADMISSION I Thr diplomatic gallery was occupied by I Ambassador Patenotre of France Ministers Min-isters Mendonca of Brazil Hatch of l c il t Hawaii Par n Von Ketteler of the i German embassy lr Ho and Chung of the Chinese legation and many of the I secretaries attaches and members of the legation households The bright costumes i cos-tumes of the ladies of the diplomatic circle cir-cle and the rich silken robes of the i Chinese diplomatists gave a touch ol bright colo to the animated scene The speech of the day was made by Senator Hale of Maine in vigorous opposition op-position to this resolution and to tH offensive Interference of the United States in foreign i cstlons The senator declared the spirit of militarism was abroad in the land that our course involved in-volved the possibilities of war with all its dreadful consequences Mr Hale brought tout t-out the kindly action of Spain at the time of our civil war when British built privateers were prevented from remaining remain-ing for any length of time in Spanish ports and when American prisoners were aboard orders they wore released by Spanish I i A DRAit ATIC INCIDENT I occurred when Mr Hale offered to read the statement pf Minister de Lome of Spain callthg in question the accuracy o I nome of the statements made by Senators Sherman Korean and Lodge concerning Sparush atrocities Mr Davis of Minnesota quickly oh 1cted to the reception of a document from a foreign minister not formally transmittel I j Messrs Mitchell Oregon ICan and I Teller direction added their protest in the same For a time there was some confusion I I nr = nfvt < vf I < fior conflict but the serenity of the debate was restored by Mr Davis withdrawing his obje tonI ton-I is expected the debate tomorrow will continue to have I I AX ANIMA1ED PHASE Mr Hoar offered a resolution today postponing all action on the Cuban postponlnl al acton question ques-tion until April S This resolution will come up under the rules tomorrow and may form the basis of opposition to an adoption of the house conference report f Another resolution by Mr Hoar was adopted calling on the president for all available iformation on the Cuban subject Thp latter part of the dav was given to the Dupont contest Mr Turpie of Indiana Indi-ana Dupont arguing against the claim of Mr The Procced I nAt n-At 115 Sherman moved the adoption 0 of the conference report accepting the House Cuban resolutions The public salaries sal-aries were packed Mr Hale Rep Maine spoke energeti cally against the resolutions In 1S70 the same conditions existed and a effort was made to involve the United States Into the controversy The House committee com-mittee on foreign affairs presided over by General Banks reported a resolution similar to this one But fortunately for the cause of peace and progres there vas said Hale a man in the presidents cnair whose love of liberty and patriotIsm patriot-Ism was certainly equal to that of any member of the committee on foreign relations re-lations The message of Grant sent to congress vas pertinent today as at that time and was an unanswerable plea against the present resolutions Mr Gray interrupted to ask what result re-sult came from Grants message It had continued Mr Hale brought the congressional resolutions to nothing That message was so distinct s unan fiverable that in the presence of that great calm man all excitement disappeared disap-peared and the resolutions came to naught Portions of President Grants message were read from the desk Mr Hale said the insurgents now fighting In Cuba had no legislature no courts no organization such as General Grant had set forth as absolutely requisite to the recognition of a state of war Their power he said is seated in straggling bands occupying straggling camps and to ths day not only have the insurgents not won a battle but they have not fought in anything any-thing worthy of the name of a battle Mr Hale compared the condition in Cuba with that in the south when the confederacy was recognized He said the confederacy was completely organized with lull legislative and executive formid branches established courts a able anrv and navy Andyet at that time our state department presided over by Mr Seward protested to European powers against EVEN A LIMITED RECOGNITION of the confederacy and always after insisted It in-sisted on the rescinding of that recognition recogni-tion tionDid Spain ever rescind Interjected Mr Mitchell of Oregon Mr Hale said he was glad to hear this inquiry as it lowed an answer to those who seemed to think Spain was less friendlv to us than other powers at the time of the civil war No nation declared de-clared Mr Halo had showed the friendly disposition that Spain had shown at that time Never did se allow a British built privateer to stay in a Spanish port more than an hour When suh a priva tr entered with American prisoners Spain demanded and secured their release re-lease leaselr Hale said the only reason for the public and press clamor again Spain was that the country had been falsely and mendaciously led with condition which did not exist Mr Hale referred to the statements made by Mr Sherman a to the atroci ties corrmStted by General Weyler I had sJnce been shown that there was an Ingenious effort to fasten on the SpanishCuban situation of today events of fifteen years ago But these alleged events were MENDACIOUS FABRICATIONS fiction from beginning to cad set up by someoody to distort public feeling At this point a sensational event oc curred which no one had anticipated and which for a time threw the senate into great excitement Mr Hale said the Spanish minister Scnor Dupuy de Lome ha made a statement state-ment a to the Inaccurate representations representa-tions against Spain I was not surpris that In view of the attacks on Spain that the minister had done this fittingly and diplomatically Mr Hale sent the Spanish ministers statement to the clerks desk to he read ltv had hardly been begun when Senator DaVis of Minnesota arose and Interrupted I object said Mr Davis t the reading of any communication coming from the representative of a foreign country on any matter transmitted to congress through such channels and reflecting re-flecting upon members of this body Immediately there was a stir on the floor and galleries Mr Hale protested against such an objection There was nothing nothingPERSONALLY PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE to senators in the Spanish ministers statement I was not an attack on the senate but was couched with a nicety of deference t senators Mr Mitchell of Oregon asked if it was j not an invariable rUle that foreign ministers min-isters credited to this country should not publicly discuss political questions relating relat-ing to the affairs of the United States I There were points ol order from various var-ious quarters and many senators were on I their feet seeking to gain recognition The vicepresident announced the rule that in case of objection to reading a communication the senate must decide by vote as to receiving it Mr Teller of Colorado said the objection objec-tion to the ministers statement was not based on Its offensiveness to the senate but to the established rule that any communication com-munication from a foreign minister must be submitted through the channels ot the state department Mr Morgan made a point of order against proceeding vith the ministers statement Mr Hale had stood calmly during the c storm of protests He said it was a MOST REMARKABLE FACT that senators would not hear this statement state-ment of facts Mr Frye suggested that Mr Davis withdraw his pomtliof order and allow the paper to be read and that in reply the communication in the Washington Post of a prominent Cuban secretary sec-retary of legation In Washington also bs read This suggestion to give the Cuban side a hearing was received with a demonstration by the galleries so pronounced that VicePrebi dent Stevenson warned the specdtor At 2 oclock the unfinished business the Dupont election case was temporarily laid aside Mr Sherman chairman of the foreign relations committee gave notice that he would Insist on action When the Spanish ministers communication communi-cation had been read Morgan asked that the reply of the Cuban secretary of the legation be read but Mr Hale ilTlined saying it could be read in the time ot some other senator Continuing Mr Hale sent to the desk and had read a communication com-munication to the New York Woild from Di William Shaw Bowen atScim munlcation not concocted in the organs of the insurrection but written ly a man compelled to tell the truth in a newspaper compeled sympathies vere with nspa1e insurgents but which was road enough TO PRINT BOTH SiDUS The extract referred to General ey ler as a erreatlv traduced man who i had been systematically Attacked by the enemies the Spanish cause This communication extracted from an unwilling un-willing witness Mr Hale said he would wiing place against anything written by Cuban Cu-ban in thLs tty He also rearonl current news dispatches dis-patches of the burning by the insurgents of thirteen towns and the destruction of tobacco and of the inhabitants wandering helpless and starving through the country coun-try tryThese sad he are the methods adopted to defeat Spain Here he continued arc the exalting details in newspapers which sympathize with the insurgents Liberty dOE not light its battles in that way Freedom often springs from prison bars from burning lips aye from its own ashes but not such horror and conflagration and devils work The heart stirred by the story of Bunker Hill turns with loathing from such tales aG these I is not war I hut incendiarism destruction by the II torch murder and outrage I is the wildest widest wildestSTROKE OF SAVAGERY I will never vote to give aid and com i fort to leaders whose exploits are thus chronicled I There is another side Mr Hale was proceeding to say when Senator Sherman I interrupted him and asked how long we were to allow this state of affairs to continue I con-tinue tinueThat That replied Mr Hale is the same I question which was put to the diplomats of Europe during the war of the rebellion I Whenever our arms sustained a reverse they were asked whether that did not I disclose a state of war That was the great burden which rested most heavily I on those then at the head of our affairs I That question gave a stoop to the tall shoulders of Lincoln it weighed most anxiously upon the able Seward and i broke down the lionhearted Stanton The answer to it is to be found in the I Instructions of Secretary Seward But interposed Mr Sherman Spain I England and France had acknowledged the belligerency of the confederacy before be-fore a single battle was fought in language I lan-guage identical with that in the first of these resolutions I am not speaking of belligerency replied I re-plied Mr Hale but of independence SEWARDS ANSWER I was that the United States was engaged in one of the most herculean tasks in the t annals of the world Charles F Adams at the court of St James and our minister I min-ister to France were Instructed to say that the United States would suppress I the rebellion but in a way to be selected I by us and that no foreign power would be allowed to interfere I Mr Hale said he depored the aggressive I aggres-sive spiiit of the past year the desire to incite troube the buiding up of instruments I instru-ments of war instead of those of peace the turning aside from the pough and the taking up of the swordthis was militarism There WPS but one result I when militarism took possession of a great people Thz arts of peace disappeared disap-peared and in their place come vast armament I ar-mament and the dominion of somd great military chieftain This was the growing f spirit of the day In ths country Out cf it all however Mr Hale said he felt that the good sense of the American I Ameri-can people would assert Itself bringing pence rather than wart JNlce t Mr Hale closed at 3 oclock I Mr Mills urged Mr Sherman not t I I endeavor t reach a vote today as sev oral senators desired to be heard Mr I Sherman yielded to the suggestion and the Cuban resolutions went over I Mr Turple DeirO Ind was then recognized I re-cognized for an argument against the claim of Mr Dupont to a seat in the I I senate from Delaware I The senator had not concluded when at 4S5 oclock the senate held a brief executive I 43 ecutive session and soon thereafter adjourned I ad-journed |