New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-18
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7FFlCiAl JOURNAL OF the UNITED STATES.
afflrMl JOURNAL OF the STATE OF LOUISIANA.

7FFlCIAL JOURNAL OF Fhe uMlIeU SiAit
affIr,Al JOURNAL OF the STATE OF l0ulSlAt
CUBAH JOINT REsOLUTlOH.
We publish this morning q fuller abstrs
of the debate on the joint resolution I
ported in the House of Representativ
from the Committee on Foreign Affair
The resolution reads 40 follows: ac-s
Resolved, by the Senate and House
Representatives Of the United States !
America, in Congsess Assembled. That Il
President of the United States be ana
hereby authorized and instructed to declal
and maintain by strict impartial neutrali'
on the part of the government OF the Unite
States, in the contest now exiting betwee
the people of Cubs and the government
SECTION 2. That ali provisions of ststot
approved the twentieth of April, 1878, Ell
titled an sct to amend an act for the punisi
ment of certain crimes against the Unite
States and to repeal the acts therein men
toned, shall be construed to apply equally {
each of the parties in the existing contes
between the people of Cuba aud the govern
ment Of Spain. -tr
SEC. 8. That the President is hereby au
thorized and requested TO remonstrat
against the barbarOus manner in which tn
war is carried on in Cuba, and, if he shall
deem 1t expedient, to solicit the cooperation
of other governments in such manner as b,
may deem necessary to secure from both
contending parties an Observance of the
laws Of war recognized by all civilized
nations. ....-
Amendments were offered by Messrs Ortiz
and Logan, the latter being to the second
section, to make 1t be construed 80 as 70
give both coDtending parties the same ad
vantages of intercourse to trade with the
United States, consistent with the law OF
nations, which have been or may be accorded
the government of Spain.
Mr.. Banks addressed the House at length
in support of the joint resolution. In the
course of his speech he referred to the argu.
ments on international law in the Presi
dents message yesterday, and compared
them with similar arguments communi-
Gated some time ago BY the Secretary Of
State, and said he could not but feel in
etinctively, on hearing the message read,
that the person who had prepared them for
the one party, had done it also for the other
The same person (Caleb Cushing] might
be in the pay of the exiled Queen OF Spain,
in the psy Of the Spanish government. and
in the pay of the Government of the United
Ststes. That might be an error on his part,
and he hoped to God it was but he was in
CuueQ W Dellcve lts
Mr.. Ingersoll: Will the gentleman state to
whom he alludes?
Mr.. Banks No sir, not at all.
Mr.. Ingersol l would like to be informed
on that point
Mr.. Banks proceeded to refer to that part
Of the Presidents message relating to bru-
talities committed on both sides, all of
which. he said, might have come from the
Spanish Minister. a[Sensation.l
W. a nj oh n ofa hot
ter than the American Minister of State.
He would say for the Cubans (who ere
instinct with the character Of the American
people,, that il they had been left to con-
duct their contest under civilized warfare,
not one man would have been butchered by |
them in q cruel and unjusti6able manner. |
He would not attempt to justify the reported |
ers of war by one of the chiefs of the in |
surgents, though they could do nothing else |
but retaliate, or see their country depopu. |
lated by Spsniards. He did not blame the |
President for not interfering; Congress had
tauPh t him that 1t was dangerous for him to
entertain an opinion or do an act that might
be called impolicy Laughter on the Demo-
things done, and said nothing, it was his
own fault. But if the members of Congress
who claim absolute and unlimited power in
the administration of the government saw
these things, and permi ted them, and iusti. |
fed them, or gloated over them, they ought
to be numbered among the damned forever
and ever. The curse OF God should rest
upon them. LApplause-suppressed by the
Speaker.] They were responsible for these
things. There had not been prisoner of
war butchered in Cuba, not woman or
child sent to eternity, for which the Con-
gress was not responsible; for IL had power
20 check such bsrbarity and did not exer-
Use 1t. Twelve millions of people would
DIN the United States in the cry Of condem.
lation against it, but Congress dared not
liter word against such wholesale butch.
ry of the defenseless people of Cuba. And
low they were told that 80 long IS the
'paniards murdered women and children.
o long there was no war the United ,
states had no right to interfere with them in
my way. That was what was called law. |
lie did not blame the President for it, not ut
II, but lawyer for anything but pay.
That man who would send 10 the represen.
atives of the people doctrine like that for :
hem to act upon, ought to be forever repu-
lated and forbidden the presence of CIV
lized men. [Applanse in the gallery and
aughter among the Democrats. The ,
speaker stated that any manifestation of
pplsuse was positively forbidden.l
Mr.. Banks went on to say that there we're
ther passages which he noticed in the /.
tceluTuI WceedRc WHICH Q8U q FAMILIAR \
ing In his ear, and which he had also found !
q the Spanish Minister'S instructions to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs through the
ecretary OF State. TWAS said the Cuban's
.ad no town, no city, and therefore no :
tights. Where did doctrine like that come =
rom? It had been said sforetime that God =
nade the country and man made the town. :
he Cubans had country and could de- 7
end it, and If left TO themselves could gov-I
I'm 1t in peace, prosperity and happiness. =
nat the Cubans had not II, 900 stand of arms.
'wo years after the declaration of American
Independence, the American grand army did | 1.
ot number more than 10, 900 or l2. 900 men.
mo prudentiy enough declined general =
IL was said that an army was obliged at g
IL tlmes and IN all situations to decline en- {
agement, as 1t might delay their ruin but 1
onio never defend this country; "but,"
AID burke, commenting on the last SEN o
ence, 1T did 1t IL did it devlish well ~ q
laughter] and what such an army did for 3
be United States it will d D for China. and :
othing else VIII DO IL:
Mr.. Banks then referred to the Presidents 4
fusion to the use of Cuban bonds. and a
animated that their bonds were expected IL
D influence Congress. He did not believe
ny such attempt had been made, but he
new OF efforts of another kind that had ,
cen made. The country had been flooded :
nth rumors that the purity and integrity Of G,
be House of Representatives had been per-
erted and destroyd, while at last it came u
rom the President that it was matter for O
congress to look inte and see that it did not o
fleet the INDIGNANT or stain the jpteuritv NJ |