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THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
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franking privilege.
Mr.. Wilson introduced bill providing for
the payment of the balance due Massachusetts,
for money expended in the war Of 1872.
Mr.. Stewards resolution or the Indiana case
was finally laid on the table, all the Republic
cans voting nay.
Mr.. Benjamin. of Alabama, spoke on the
Cuba question. He commenced by stating
the value of the island. All the British French
and Dutch West Indies, together with the pos
sessions of those powers in Guinea, were not
equal to that solitary island.
He then proceeded to demonstrate the fail
ure of the disastrous experiment of emanci-
patton, saying that the emanclpated negroes
have not yet become the amiable peasantry,
the English abolitionists proposed. Compul-
sorry labor was necessary i'll the tropics
While Cuba is kept in the grasp of Spain, she
cannot keep up her supply of negroes by a
surreptitious slave trade, and the Coolie sys-
TEN was infinitely worse. In view Of the
necessity of a supply of labor, Cuba must soon
follow St. Domingo or become American
He would not discuss the effects of the acquis-
ition of Cuba on our trade. Geographically
considered Cuba would be a destructive ele-
ment in the hands of the British in case of a
war between the United States and Great
Britain.
We are told that Cubans still seek to remain
under this yoke. 1t is not so. They have
done all they could to throw it off In 1926
there was revolt there. Later was the con-
spiracy of the Black Eagle, and later the at
tempt to regain her independence, familiar to
all. In july 1851, few patriots declared indie
pendence in proclamation which Mr. Benja-
min read, and which set forth intolerable griev-
ances, The fidelity of Cuba to Spain was only
maintained by 10000 bayonets, and the fleets
that watch her coast
bai tbn WHY chOnl1
gress make an expression towards purchasing
it If Great Britain and France object, there
is a controlling consideration for persisting in
it.
We propose to purchase from Spain but if
Spanish dignity is offended let US unite to
grant independence for her Cuban subjects, and
we will idemnify her fer the outlay trusting to
recompense ourselves i'll the friendly relations
that are sure to spring up. If she refuses to
cede or to relax her despotic grasp, let the
United States in the face of the world tell her
that on this occasion we will extend TO the
Cubans that aid Great Britain has to other Span
ish colonies i'll the revolt; the same that
France gave us in the darkest day of the
Revolution. If the Cubans prefer indepen-
dence we will protect them and if they prefer
annexation we will receive them with welcome.
Mr.. Doolittle said American policy rested on
the triple foundation-lst that under no cir
CuluS can CuDa De transferred UO any
other European power I'd, that SO long as it
belongs to Span we will not seek to wrest it
from her; and third, that whenever we can &C
quire Cuba with the consent of Spain, and of
the people Of the island, by purchase and ces-
sion, we are ready to accept it. He expressed
himself free to believe that in process of time
Cuba will be incorporated into the Union, but
the time had not yet come. In support of
these views, he quoted from letters and speech
es by Clay, Buchanan, Fillmore, and Marcy
The Republicans would resist the transfer of
Cuba to any other power but for the purposes
expressed by the Senator from Georgia-to
make the Gulf "mare ciausum," where no
flag could float, without our permission.
What the United States make a mare cLQUSum
OF any sea, when our whole policy has been
for the freedom Of the seas For that we
fought the war Of 1872, for that we opened up
the Mediterranean by war on the Algerines ;
for that we made the Sound Dues Treaty.
The very purpose of acquiring the Gulf is to
prevent it from becoming a closer sea.
HOUSE.
Mr. Soaring of New York, rising to a cues
ton of privilege branded as a coarse and base
SANDER, the assertion of correspondent of
the New York Times, that paint bought for
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was used to paint
his farm house.
The House resumed the consideration of the
Oregon bill.
Mr.. Dawes said his objections lay in the
Constitution Of Oregon itself, which provides
for excluding free colored people from the
State.
Mr.. Hall opposed the admission, on account
of the insuflicency of population, and alien
suffrage.
Clark ID. Cochrane opposed it, because it
will be palpable infringement of the rules es-
tablished in the case of Kansas because it
will be unjust to the larger and older States
with respect to Congressional representation
and because Of exclusion of free colored people
MIR. Thayer argued in favor of admission
With regard to the arguments touching the in
suficiency of population, he reminded Repub-
icans of their vote for the Topeka Constitution
when Kansas had less than half the population
Oregon now has
Mr.. Case of Indiana thought there were OBJ
jecticnable features IN the Oregon Constitu-
ton, but had made up his mind to vote for it,
as the best thing that can be done under the
rotten administration, which curses and dis
graces the country.
Mr.. Bingham opposed the bill, on account of
the alien clause i'll the Constitution, and that
with reference to free negroes and mulattoes.
Mr.. English gave notice of an amendment,
providing, that hereafter, no Territory shall be
admitted as a State, unless it is previously as
certained that it has sufficient population for a
representative in Congress, then Constitution
may be formed and the state admitted, with or
without slaves, as the Constitution may pre-
scribe. AT 4 O'Clock, there being an under
standing that none but the Oregon question
will be discussed to-day, all but about dozen
departed
Mr.. Hoard and Mr.. Wilson spoke against
and Mr.. Stevenson for the bill. Mr.. Davis of
Mississippi was in favor of the bill. Mr.. Gil
man of Maine would be compelled to vote
against it principally, on account of the free
negro claim in the constitution. Adjourned