Show ably supported by mr morgan and cuban belligerency recognized greater part of the speeches on the subject behind closed doors matter practically shelved by being placed on the calendar adjournment predicted for next tuesday washington june 5 the resolution oddred last tuesday by mr morgan of alabama requiring the president of the united states to communicate to the banate all the facts and proceedings relative to the trial by court martial een tence and imprisonment of citizens of the united states who were captured on board the american vessel competitor in cuban waters was taken up in the senate today and its adoption urged by mr morgan the resolution omitted the usual phrase if not incompatible with the public interests and was based upon lection 2001 of the revised statutes which makes it the duty of the president whenever any citizen of the united states has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by any foreign government to demand forthwith the reason of such imprisonment to demand the release of such citizen if his imprisonment is wrongful to use euch means not amounting to acts of varas he may think necessary and proper to effectuate the release and to communicate all charges and proceed enss to congress as soon as practicable mr morgan was very emphatic in expressing his views he considers it absolutely sol necessary before contress Con aress adjourns to aid the president in sending ships of war to cuba to secure the release of those american prisoners he was so earnest in this and other declarations of a like character and the matter itself was such a serious international one that mr sherman of ohio chairman of the committee on foreign relations suggested that the debate should not be continued in open session the galleries were cleared the door closed and mr morgan bis speech in secret session he spoke until the morning hour expired and then under the rules the resolution went to the calendar from which it cannot be taken up without a majority vote of the senate the immigration bill was taken up with the understanding that a final vote should not be taken on it till monday as its most active mr chason of maryland was absent on official duty as one of the visitors to the annapolis naval academy the proposed constitutional amendment to have united states senators elected by the people instead of by state legislatures as taken up informally and discussed by senators bell ore Per kius cal and palmer in favor and hawley conn and chandler N H in opposition A joint resolution for final adjournment next monday at 2 p in was offered by mr aldrich of rhode island and was referred to the committee on appropriations after adverse remarks by senators allison iowa miss and warren wyo amendments to the joint resolution a to the reorganization of the northern pacific railroad in reference to the lands of the company were offered by senators mitchell rep ore and axelson hep minn and were referred to the judiciary committee mr morgan in speaking to his resolution in relation to united states citizens captured on the american vessel competitor in cuban waters and sentenced to death or imprisonment said the competitor incident occurred in the middle of may but the senate had not yet had the slightest information on the subject from the executive department the only information which the committee on foreign relations had on the question was from the public prints and from the testimony of mr lawrence before a bub committee and which he would have published in the record mr morgan quoted from the act providing that in case from imprisonment is unreasonably delayed the president shall kiiko such means not amounting to war as he might think proper to effect it A resolution of the senate last month biad asked the president to send copies of the correspondence on the subject and the president had replied on the of may that in bis judgment it was incompatible wita the public service to furni sli copies of the correspondence and atiat he was constrained to refuel to do so mr morgan said congress should not adjourn without learning the facts of the competitor matter from the president and without authorizing the president to send out chips of war to cuba to demand and escure the of american citizens at the close of mr morgans speech mr sherman eaid the subject waa ono which should not be debated in public and he moved that the galleries bo cleared that motion was agreed to the galleries were cleared and the doors closed and the debate was continued in secret session the boora were reopened at five min utes after one and an effort was mad by mr lodge rep mass to have aba immigration bill taken up but it was evident that the cuban question had not been definitely settled in the secret session for there was a motion made to allow mr morgan to continue his remarks that motion again provoked a demand to have the galleries cleared and the doors closed that demand was enforced and the senate again went into secret session in secret session the morgan resolution was ordered to be placed on the calendar so that it cannot be taken up again unless a majority of the senate shall vote to take it up after the doors were opened for the second time mr lodge renewed bis motion to take up the immigration hill but it was laid aside temporarily in order to permit mr mitchell rep ore to address the senate on his joint resolution for a constitutional amendment for the election of senators by the people of the united states instead of by the legislatures he said however that he would not ask action upon it until nest ees sion the proposed reform was also advocated by mr perkins beep cal mr chandler rep N H made an argument against it declaring it to be an accession to tendencies the proposed reform was advocated by mr palmer dem who eaid in the course of his remarks on new issues I 1 have the misfortune to differ with tha political machine of my state the machine has the control of that and other states the machine is against me I 1 defy the machine it remains to be seen whether the machine is stronger than the people he said that a most salui ory result from popular election of senators would be freedom from machine control mr hawley rep conn expressed his entire and vigorous dissent on the proposition and the joint resolution was postponed till the second monday in december the senate at 5 p m adjourned tomorrow an emergency buo des moines iowa june 5 the emergency club of des moices waa formed last night its object being the care of sufferers from tornadoes and similar public calamities mayor macvicar is president hoyt aberman and mrs john wyman vice presidents 0 L F brown secretary conard young arman treasurer and mrs 8 W hazard mrs wyman the executive committee which has charge of the clubs work travelers protective association terre haute ind june 5 the travelers protective association adjourned today after making a number of amendments to the constitution and electing officers the principal amendment was to give the national officers authority to levy a special assessment when the financial conditions candit ions of the order mado it necessary during the past two years the indemnity benefits had increased from to whereas the receipts had increased but the following officers were elected john A lee of missouri dent joseph wallerstein of virginia first vice president W H heegard of chicago second vice president L 0 cardinal of alabama third vice president the next convention will ba held in omaha put in an application for the convention in A coronation festivities disaster london june 5 the barlin correspondent of the daily news telegraphs that during the coronation festivities at the capital of a russian province ol 01 that name a railing of a bridge gave way precipitating a large number of persons into the water many of them vere drowned |