It Was Cuba's Day!

Washington, Fëbruary 9.- Fot nio.'e Uian ttoee hours today the senate % with eloquent a.. m belialf of the Culjan iusurgents. Announced .speeches were delivered by Mr. Canuon, oí' Urali, and Mr. M.illlinois, in advoeaey of the adoptioa of resolutíons which they prced 'o the seríate 3 1 Fol ng Mr. Oannon's speech, Mr. Fíale, ed the senate briefly, Bg the señale to uphold the p the administration. He pointed that mneh had already been acpllshed by President MeKinley, 'for thé cause of i)c.i sland, bul also for the protección i and American int of the reconcentrapaeifl ís. lie í S ould not be good polli ■ ;ion of an.v drastie declaration to place the admiiiistration ín strings that mighl v.iiii ihe carrying into 1 yLo lv. Cannon ai senate, the gallei ii s were packed with people who were áware that this would be a field day of i'uii.m oi-atory. Mr. Oannoa's speech was a c.ilm ana dispassionate argumenl in support oí bis resoluüon. He dld nnt, ho maintained, desire to distui b the peace or welfare oï this gov ui. bui he warned eongressnjcn and officials in adminlstrati'on circles that unless deiinite action ere taken upoa ! ho Cuban by the United .States the heavy hand of the people would fall upoii them. lic ■- clared that in the conflict in Cuba. Spain, afraid to meet the insurgents in lii' field, had resorted to a poliey of bribery and starvation. Of this ae believed the American people couiü not be brought to approve. While Mr. i'aiuiou was speaking a sensational incident occurred. A ueuiber of the house of representa ti ves, standing the speaker, audibly denounced as a lie, seemingly some statoüient Mr. ('annon had made. Mr. Oanuon, 11. He wiili reding, made reply to what at the moment seemed an insult, bul which was subsequently satisfacforlly exp'iaiiii'd. Mr. Masón followed Mr. Hale in a long and at times flery speech, in which he urged the president immediately t(j intervene in the Cuban war and end the struggle which on both side had beeome so torutal as to shock the seusibilites of the civilized world. He discussed from the view pc-lnt of an international lawyer the. nght i the I'nited States to intervene to put an end to the war, and then with effective satire pronounced as a "piece oí S]ianish iraud and chicanery" the seheme oif autonomy which Spain Is niiw endeavoring to focee upon the ('ul)ans. He did not believe would resuli from intervention, luit thought if it should it would be a war of glory aiid of honor. The next regular meeting of ihe Philological Society will be held Thursday cvening, Feb. 10. in Room E, University Hall, at T:UO sharp. A paper will be read on "The Yalue of the Study of Homan Constitutional History," by Dr. J. E. Granrud. The FTeshman Law Class held a very cauhusiastic meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Law Lecture Room. The meeting was ealled for the purpose of hearing what arrangement had been made for the Washington's Birthday exercises and also to arouse enthusiüsin about the Freshman Banluet.