New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-15
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JUNE l5 1870

Amendments offered by Messrs. OislH Otep inu
and LOGAN Gep., I'D, the latter being To the secou
section to make il he construed to give 10 boh con-
tending parties the same advantages Of intercourse ai
trade with the United States consistent with the INV
nations, which have been or may be, according u o
Government Of SPAIN -, -,
House support OF The Joint resolution. He had listened
ycstcray 70 The message Of The President M,tnpu rrc
Ing his views the subject changed or modhed lcIc
could be peace In the country nti tine re''9 4
OF Cuba to the United States were deiltoy sG'' 70
knew that the people of the United Stas , .t ia tho
ligOusly faithful to their duties, although they au Wv
reputation abroad Of being hiDsteIs no od an that
in the world had clear and honorable RECORD VII lha
regard the United states had Inc present nloN %
in Cuba originated out OF the revolution III ah hnn
people OF Cuba naturally expected TO share III me pcS
Tits Of the revolution, but Caplan-Geheral Isun
checked the idea and intimatcd that the shcfcG ol
few lives would save greater anu or9 '' aainst The
The people of Cuba had thereun0n risen agallst lIe
Government OF Spain and established Government
for themselves. They had adopted CONSTITUTION a.
wise and respects wiser than that OF me Uniu
states They held three OF the four States into when
the Island is divided, and had fought IRON OetoDe Iso
until with presidency, fath ana ndcty tnat nau
rarely been exceeded He had heard the mention made
In the Presidents Message yesterday OF LOSSES Dy to
Spaniards from Gan occasional bullet ana recognized lhe
can occasional buet that cost the lives of 5000 Span
ish soldiers There had been 10000 men EMPLOYER 10
spbreSs tne I'm ne sunnnsod ~ he about
5000 men against 10000 10000 Cubans. The conflict
had been carried with barbarity never before
equaed which was an additional reason tor me me
interference of the United States Government Tue
oense to no nation nterered with the rights of neither
party the contest and were in consonance with the
In the late Rebellion in the United States: Spain had
recognized the Rebellion within 65 days after the nring
Island of Cuba not within 65 days after the beginning Of
the conflict but 81 months after IT, and after thousands
Of lives had fallen in He reminded the House or
the insecurity Of United States citizens and officers III
Cuba. lie had seen letter yesterday stating that
United States Consul there whose name ne wOuld not
repeat was preparing leave the Island in the belief
that his life not safe there. There was no lhdlghy
and wrong which might not be imposed upon Aineri-
An Admiral of the United States Navy had been sent
the murder of young man from Pennsylvania, after the
sham and farce Of n trial. and the Admiral reported that
the President assented The Admiral had also reported
that the British Government had power to protect It's
subjects and that they suffered violence whatever
from the anarchy in Cuba The Secretary OF state wrote
to American Consul there nquring what there was
lection which American citizens had not and the Consul
could not answer the question but he lMr. Bank9
tected its own subjects, and never took the side Of
the and the yrant against its own people as
the United States Government had too nearly done
erirsi The BritiSh Government did not assa
its people as liars and towards, but pro-
tected them, whether they were right or wrong
Americans would be as fully protected as Englishmen
Frenehmen Swedes, Danes, Russians, or Prussans are
protected He wanted that protection given to Amer-
cans there and the flag OF the country allowed TO
unmolested on the seas and especially In the Cur OF
Mexico He referred 10 the arguments on international
law in the Presidents message yesterday and compared
them with similar arguments communicated some time
the Secretary OF State and said that he could not
but feel nsnctivey hearing the message read that
the person who had prepared them for the party had
done it also for other and that that person might
be in the pay of the exed Queen OF span-n the pay Of
the spanish Government and in the pay Of the Govern
part and he hoped TO God it was but he was inclined
Mr. NGERsoLL Rep., nl)-win the gentleman state
| to whom he audesi
| Mr.. BANKS-No, Sir; not at ALL
Mr.. INGERSOLL-I would like to be informed on that
| point.
idents message relating the brutaes committed on
both sides, all Of which he said might have come from
| the Spanish Minister. [Sensaton.l 1t would become
the spanish Minister better than the American Minister
OF State He would for the Cubans If they had been
| warfare not would have been butehered by
them in cruel and unjustihable manner He would not
prisoners of by of the chiefs OF the nsur
gents though they could do nothing else but resliate
| or see the country depopulated by the Span
iards. He did not blame the President for not
ring STgeS Sr b aa to entertain 1n opinion or
do that might be called policy laughter ON the
done and said nothing it not his fault but members
of Congress would claim absolute and unlimited power
things and permitted them and justified them or goaed
and GFn to h Of o a
upon them. Appause suppressed by the speakerl
been a prisoner OF war butchered in Cuba; not
woman child sent 10 eternity, for which
Congress not responsible for it had the power TO
check such barbarty and did not exercise IT, Twelve
hundred million Of people would join the United States
in the cry of condemnation against II, but Congress
dared word against such wholesale butchery
the defenseess people of Cuba; and now they were
children so long there was war; the United states
had no right TO interfere with them in any way That
President for it, not at all but lawyer, who, for any
thing pay would send 10 the representatives OF the
people document like that to act upon, ought he for
ever repudiaed and forbidden the presence of civilized
Applause in the gallery, and laughter among the
The SPEAKER stated that any manifestation of ap-
plause was positively forbidden by the rules.
Mr. EGERSOLL (Sep., INLET us have little liberty
to-day.
he Message
which had familiar ring to his ear, and which he had
also found in the Spanish Minister'S instructions TO the
Committee Foreign Affairs through the Secretary
State said that the Cubans had no town. city,
like front II had been said afOretime that
God made the country and men made the town. The Gu
bans had country and could defend it, and left 10 them
selves could III peace prosperity and happiness
The information given by the President that the Gu
statement made TO Edmund Burke, two years after the
declaration Of American Independence when he was
tod that the American Grand Army did not number
than 10000 or 1900 who prudently enough
was Obliged at all times and in all situations to decline
engagement, might delay their ruin but could
defend their country But said Burke commenting on
the last sentence" IT dld 1t, 1t did u deylsh well"
Laughter And what such an army did for the United
States will do for Cuba and nothing else will do it,"
Mr. BANKS then referred to the Presidents allusion
the Of Cuban bonds and the limitations that their
bonds expected to influence Congress. He did not
believe that any such attempt had been made but he
knew that efforts of another character had been made
the purity and integrity Of the Repre- sentatves
had been perverted and destroyed until at last it
look into, and that it did not affect the Judgment
stain the integrity Of members. He did not
believe that any such attempt had been made;
but he did know that foreign Governments here had
endeavored to sustain their purposes and their objects
by appeals OF that character year and half ago, the
Spanish Minister in Washington said to reporter in the
House, a correspondent OF prominent Journal in the
neghborhood Of where he (ank lived, and without the
approval Of which journal he could not sustain himself
at home, intending that what he said should the
public print, " that Cen Banks had other motive 90
sustain the Cuban question except what Influenced him
supporting the acquisition Of san Domingo In which
he had large and implicitly dishonest territorial posses
sions" If the American Minister Madrid should assa
in that officer OF the Spanish Government
Corte he tBanks) would say to the Spanish people that