People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — ARRAIGNS DE LOME. [ARTICLE]

ARRAIGNS DE LOME.

SENATOR LODGE CRITICISES SPANISH MINISTER. Hla Interview, Published In the Newspapers, Considered a Breach of Diplomatic Good Taste —Anti-Option Bill to Be Reported Adversely. Washington, March 10. —As soon as the journal had been read in the senate this morning Senator Lodge rose to a question of personal privilege. He said he had read Sunday an interview attributed to Senor Dupuy de Lome, of Spain. In it the minister called in question the accuracy of the statement made by him (Lodge). The senator sent to the desk and had read the minister’s reference to Mr. Lodge’s utterances calling in question the translation of a statement attributed to General Weyler in which the latter declared that he would terminate” the insurgents. The senator said he did yot wonder at the extreme sensitiveness of the Spanish people, but he aid not think this offered any excuse for the Spanish minister in adopting the course he had. It was pretty well established that the debases in the senate and house were purely domestic matters, and it was not proper for a representative of a foreign country to communicate except through the state department. If an American minister in Europe discussed the political affairs there he would be sent home. Senator Gray said the course of the United States should proceed according to the judgment of a self-respe:ting nation, unmoved by the emeutes at Valencia or Madrid, and without being turned aside to discuss a question of translation between a senator and a minister. There should be some concession to the stress of the situation. This was a most vital time for Srain and for the Spanish minister. Senator Teller said the rule was unvarying against a communication t y a foreign minister except through the state department. There should be no comment by a foreign minister. He should not be heard, at all, except in the regular channels. Twice had loreign ministers been sent home for statements of less importance than this. Senator Teller then turned to the conditions in Spain. He did not think the outbreak of students should give offense. The Spanish authorities were doing all in their power to stop the trouble. There was ho nrobaoilit. ihat Spain would dissent in an offensive way to the passage of the pending n solutions. Spain know we had a right to recognize the belligerenis. Spain would naturally show some feeling, but she would not go to war. In conclusion Mr. Teller vigorously repeated that if the Spanish minister repeated this public utterance the senator would favor giving him his “walking papers.” 'the American people would not tolerate any dictation or criticism from foreign reprepresentatives accredited here.

Death Blow to Anti-Option. Washington, March 10.—A subcommittee of the house committee on agriculture to-day decided to recommend to the full committee that the anti-option bill be reported adversely. The full committee will pass upon it to-morrow.