The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-13

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tie last remnsp's Of Ler ace world wide empirs
Well, su, Great Britain France nave no rriIn4ts
concern With the Question: their business hes cnicf
The other side Of bc Atlal.c AM, hey axoas
for controversy ~h u.s. they Will abstain from al inter-
ference. II there be one maxim 10 winch national
honor plecgeda maxin delivered Tine aud again
by the oracies OF Revolutionary wsonm thsl the Euro
pean system OF deatoA BY sogeregns 10 earn other sha
be extended to this nept Whenever yield
that, under ar menace app bens on the day OF
greatness ~ii decline. We Shalt have become So far
Tupted by wealth ir0ocnt eee that are
at the mercy Of him who them ani repuD-
Lc will soon PASS into history forever
AS 10 the objections Of detail urged by The Senator from
New York some days since esteem of very little
importance. The bill pfoyidss appropriation of
$50 eco to De paid for ceson Of he Isl lnj with its
dspeDdebcss, which amoaut TO be raised b. at
five per cent, and much may be necessary paid
vben.veI the treaty shall have been ratified py Span
II the bill should be successful therefore, II viii be
appropriation Of EoDey, by from the treasury OF the
ubited States, IN stl accmdunce with the constitution
and for an oeet as clarls and exactly defined any Oh
jeci specified Ia Our annual Appropriation bits The law
is 10 be execud 81 by the President tho Untsd
States all oher laws are required 10 be executeI and
the money EXPENDED through the Department OF state,
some Of our ers abroat, olher appropriations for
Ike purposes have been, and always must he, ex
pended Tie ou4 OF the bill are n pursuance OF h
famous acts OF our ee'slat oD-ihe OF February &C.
1903, under which Lohsiaa pu chased; the act oil
the act OF March g. ls47 which led ~ the acquisition Of
New Mexico and California Two Of these acts, Will be
obsei veo, were IN the time OF Pres ent J
tapy as lts disposed any President wac
viii he, to encroach the legislative department,
tolerate any Of executive power inin
eDce. Indeed, sir, until now our most eminent
statesmen DO not seem 10 have discovered that such
bill coLfes on the President any control the
suy or any undue control over the conduct OF for
ten relations am wiDIg TO err Or be an error with
THIN; although, certainly whatever amendment be
sesetted by the Senator from New York any else
to restrain s,s appropriation OF money to the object in
poy ment of tie powers TO be confer red will receive my
vote and assistance AS tc the substitute proposed oy the
Senators from New York and Vermont, a minority OF
the Committee Foreign Relations II does not deserve
much comment The first section requires the President
TO to the Senate at the beginning Of the next
session. ' 10 his opinion not Incompatible with the public
interest,", the condition If relations with Spain that
time, well the condition Of the treasury, the army
and the navy The second section authorizes hm
the Sena'e Congress, sin extraordinary session.
whenever he may consider that advisable. Inasmuch
az all these duties or powers have been expressly
con1ded TO the President by the constitution, our
recapltulaiion Of them, in statute, would be as
idle, and ludcrous could well imagine.
content to fortify the President with the and
Ire powers which be Low asks at our hands No mischief
ensue, as have sad in OF failure; because,
without treaty fer the cesson Of Cuba, no money is to
be paid even DO rowet, iIaemuch as none will be re
CURED 1t is said, however that we thus commit onr
selves in advance to the ratification of whatever treaty
the President mag negotiate think not Spain knows
win know, quite well as We, that the treaty must be
ratified according To the requirements Of our constitution
else be wholly imperative She ratified the treaty OF
February %. 1879, with notifications and these
afterwards accepted by There is no "bank draft
the treasuyo pledge guarantee for the payment of
dime hey $50 600 coo 10 this bill and the entire
treaty will be subject ratification amendment rejec.
ton by the Senate, as all other treaties are. If
the Presltept should stipuate for larger Goa
sideJati0n 70 Spain, whether in money other
wise, than two.thirds Of the Senate believe 70 be
advantageous in the circumstances, that will end
aso that will forfeit the $50 900 in do
rafy the treaty but such objection, valid
must have apred as wel to all past negotiations of this
character do not see, for my own part, how for
ieituTe can rRhuuy be pIedcateo VI such but
SPAN has always be- diatory in the payment Of her
debts assume That may lose the whole amount paid
advance (wheber $50 900 600 less) If the treaty
lot Tatih.d sde The amount is large one and
psI ticulaiy the financial embarrassment which has
lately oyethken underrate OF these cousde-
tons; but, after ALL essential DO consider the acqus
on Of Cuba to our prosperi'yso anxious am avoid
whole subject, urging steadily toward ruptnre with
Great Brtsn sso france well q With Spain, that Q
u..s sa.a to sS reasonable esens rather tSsn to su
fer one more year " eapsc without some definite, and
ever the bill should contain a Limitation 10 the
amount for which the President may stpulate rather
ovision that no pay msnt shall be made in advance Of
ratification by both parties, unless the whole amount
stipulated be within a certain maximum. l would spe-
cfy as such maximum $3.50 goo, or, at farthest,
$3.50 600 GOO The Senator from New York objects to
te acquisition IL Cuba, politically because that island s
now Inhabited aLd by a people, he says, different
entirely fo the citizens of tho United States different in
language, diff rent in race different in habits different in
manners, different in CUSTOMS and radically different in
religion" What The Senator means by difference in
race do not comprehend The descendants OF the Span
ard in America are like the rest Of u.s. they OF
stock, and are admitted, every day. under laws of
naturalization 10 the rRbts and privileges OF native born
citizens. All tn nations Of Europe had common origin;
the Caucasian race notwithstanding it's dversties
OF language, habits, manners, customs and re-
ison, is, at last, the same: Its unity is innate and
But when the Senator frou. New York, and his
asfociates, endesvor TO blend the African with the
CaucasiaD upon te ms Of social political equality then
10 te sure DO confusion degradation threaten us
There diversity Of between the people Of
the ubted States and the people Of Cuba, any
diversity Of language or habits mauners customs
ree on, than the Senator may behold to-day in the
great city 1hcb he represepts The people OF Cuba are
such LOUISIANA, and Florida and Texas and New Meyi-
and California; contained their respective periods OF
sruexaon ana so far from the least difficulty has not
tie eenus Of our federal system been admirably proved
ard Illustrated IN each instance? But the Senator desires
be told "what institutions Of justice Of freedom
hgon abd public worship" Ill obtain in the island OF
Cuba, after II shall have been annexed the United
sisies aDswe', once for all, such "institutons,"
acty consistent with the constitution Of the United States
The people of Cuba WISH they shall be, so far as
concerned uon an equal footing with the people Of other
States The Senator from Wisconsin OR. Dootte),
ennounced to us yesterday as the programme Of
tie modern and self styled republican party,
that the tropical Of this continent should be for the
negro and oily f's temperate zone for the white
really obliged TO the Senator for honest procsma
maon bay always been convinced that the PARTY Of
ms attachment, upon which be has avished as many
ctops'c caresses and epthes Saucho Panza could
suggested intends that Cuba and Mexico, and Gen.
tral Amercs, and, II possible, Southern 5iles
sta te reduced 10 the miserable condition of Hay and
Jsmaca RGi, cir admonsh the Senator that his coored
Tcnos will rot be able retain the empire which he so
generously end without any cott 70 himself would thus
give them. IN Jamaica, appears, they are becoming
extinct from sheer Incidence; while in Hayu, the last
sdvces the Emperor s uouque running TO- or from
very urgent business There is decisive objection
eide this " the Senator's magnificent scheme au ohec
on which even Commodore PauldDg cannot sssist him
10 remove. Is, that the Atlantic shores Of
Continent have been found so much colder
than Europe. or Asia, or Africa, between the same
PARALLELS. We are now assembled at Washing
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