New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-17
TAX. AND VOTING on CUBA.

The final action of the House on the Cuban
question seems judiciOus. 1t is in precise ac-
cordaDce with the earnest appeal which we
lately felt called upon to address to the Pres
ident and we do not doubt that compliance
with it will give him as much pleasure
az we know it will give the Country.
There is a war in Cuba. 1t has been conducted
in barbarous manner. We should appeal to
the contending parties for an end at least,
of the wanton butchery. We should ask
other Governments to unite with us
in this appeal The decisive vote by
which the House declares these things
fairly represents the earnest wish of
the great majority of the American people.
That wish we know Gen. Grant will be very
glad to execute, and in doing so will bring to
his official action the stimulu. of personal
good will.
As to the debate which has preceded the
vote in the House well, it involves so
many important considerations of policy and
law, affecting our national interests and our
national honor, and perhaps concerning vitality
the cause of the insurgent islanders for whom
our people feel so much sympathy, that the
calm, temperate, and dignified spirit of the
honorable gentlemen engaged in it must be
peculiarly gratifying to every thoughtful Amer
lean citizen. Gen. Butler replies to the solid
arguments and eloquent appeal of Gen. Banks
by hOurishing in the eyes of the House two
Cuban bonds, purchased through the cadetship-
seller Deweese, who seems to have filled in this
theatrical exhibition the cOngenial function of
property man. Mr.. Randall answers Butler with
the exclamation, sob, moonshne ~ Mr. Logan
congratulates himself that he cannot be con
"bOth sides at once, like the gentleman from
Massachusetts," and declares that Butler has
surrounded himself with "a parcel of detec-
" tives and disreputable scavengers." Charges
of completely in speculative jobs and lobby
rings are freely interchanged. General Butler
intimates that Mr.. Randall is fool Mr.. Ran
dali retOrts that fools are sometimes honest,
which the gentleman from Massachusetts never
is. Then, after a discussion of the literary
and legal engagements of the Hon. Caleb
Gushing, General Logan reads General Butler
lesson in good manners, and observes that
his remarks are Glow"
This, perhaps, is not as bad as the old fire.
eating debates, wherein the honorable gentle
men used sometimes to draw their pistols,
come to blows, and pull off one another's wigs
1t is no worse than a recent scene in the
House of Commons, where the famous No
Popery member, Mr. Whalley, was assailed
with cries of "Kick him! Strangle him. !" Mr..
Bernal Osborne once described Government
member, noted for his devotion to Sir Robert
Peel as "a tin kettle attached to the tail of
:" the member for TamwOrth :" and Mr.. Glad
stone, if we remember rightly, administered a
severe rebuke to the great Tory statesman and
novelist because, in reply to question, he
said that he regarded Sir James Graham but
"did not respect him." The humOr of Mr..
Bernal Osborne, however, and the acerbity of
Mr.. Dsraeli, were mild and mannerly wit COM
pared with the bOorish rudeness of the gentle
men in Washington. Mr.. Butler ought to I'M