The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-09
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Strange Report from Washington PrIm
Agrees to Sell the Island to the spnnIsh Vol
unteers for S1OO,OOO,O0O.
The New York Sun publishes the following
despatch from Washington
The expected action of Congress in the matter
OF Cuban belligerency has been delayed in a
manner which seemed long unaccountable, but
which recent developments explain. The House
has been waiting for the report of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. The favorable reso-
luton to which that committee agreed several
weeks ago, together with the report then pre-
pared, has been held back partly under in
fuences which have been actively operating in
other directions toward the same end.
Two rings, organized here for different OBJ
jects, have in fact been industriously and sue
cessfully at work to staye off any action by
Congress in this matter. The first consists of
pretended friends Of Cuba and their dupes
whose efforts have been directed to prevent the
granting of belligerent rights until the Cuban
agentsi.wo consent to a heavy blackmail ar
rangement. Always really powerless to further
this object they are, now that their game is
understood, equally powerless to impede it,
The other ring includes highly influential per-
sonages in Spain and in the country among
whom are prominent General Prim and Minister
Roberts, with the full aid, sympathy, and con-
currence of our Secretary of State. Spain de-
spairs of retaining possession of Cuba, and Mr.
Fish knows 1t, and cannot deny but that he has
long been thus informed by his agents
The scheme on foot, and now matured for
PIactlcal eAecuIlon IL InaI opaln snail sell the
island to the Spanish volunteers for one hundred
millions of dollars, of which ten millions are to
be paid down, and bonds given for the balance
secured on the island, guaranteed If feasible by
the United States. If this cannot be obtained,
the arrangement is 10 be made by its mediation,
or with its moral aid and countenance. Mr. Fish
and his friends do not hesitate to express the
conviction that the cession of Cuba to the
Spanish volunteers would be the most desirable
solution OF the question. AS an argument to
Senators, members, and others for not pressing
the question of Cuban belligerent rights, and as
plea for delay, it isconidently intimated that
Spain will soon sell the island to the Spanish
volunteers, and that the Spanish volunteers will
sell to the United States. In what manner or
in what form of organization the volunteers are
TO buy the island is not stated, but shall doubt
less soon be able to inform you. As vet how
ever, the scheme has not become sufficiently
developed for its minuter features to be known
But the ice has been broken here and the whole
affair will soon be revealed. -
The great objection made to this plan by
clear. headed men who have been consulted re-
specting 1t, is that, great as would be the value
OF Cuba in peaceful and productive condition,
and desirable as might be the annexation of the
island to the United States, it would be absurd
to pay hundred millions, or even fifty millions,
for ferocious civil war. The answer to this is.
that as the Cubans generally desire annexation.
they Will be sure to acquiesce in the transaction
as soon as the volunteers shall transfer their
right to the United States and that thus the civil
war will be brought to perfect and permanent
conclusion. Or, it is said, if the volunteers
should not at once make arrangements to sell
their claim, their violent, brutal, and insubord-
nate character will at once lead them into out
RACES of so extreme a nature that IL will become
the duty of the United States to interfere by
force, drive out the volunteers, relieve the
patriots from their enemies, and then proceed to
annex the island.