The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-25
CrBA AND ST. DOMINGO.
.UE RINGS BREAKTNG APART AND
iyOhInG OUG ron IHEsNSELYEs.

lUOhIhG OUI ron IHEMhLLFHb.
,ii,ry webster Gone to Madrid 20 Speculate
an 'nba The san Domingo Treaty Broken
pown-Gen. Banks aud Caleb Cushing Co
operating In that Job - Movements for
Cnbn In Congress.
.ortcsl ondcncc of The sun.
WAsnlNeroS. May 23.--The activity Of tho Gu
ban aud san Domingo rings continues unabs,ed.
Unc of tic lobby agents referred to in my last con-
muucation, asccf aimed and reported on Saturday,
that Notwithstanding all manipulatons there. are six
votes short tho San Domingo treaty In the Senate
and he Is SAID TO have retired from the business in
DISGUST You have seen II published that the Pres
ilcut had made alterations In the treaty, which II
wss supposed would remove certain Objectionable
fcaturc- aud that ho would send memorial 70 that
eject to members Of both houses. That memorial
and those alterations were framed on paper drawn
up by the Hon. n p Banks in Caleb cushing's once
One Of the members OF Congress, Mr.. Fitch, who
vent on from here and made . speech at the st. Do
mingo meeting In New York, explained to several
members here that he went at the urgent solieita-
ton Of Gen. Grant, nrst conveyed to him BY Gen.
Babcock. lie also said that he cared very little
about the annexation Of st. Domingo, but had been
told that a. soon as 1t was acquired at least twenty
thousand American miners would rush down thero
In search or gold. and. being disappointed, would
take their r'uct hnu CIoSr O'ei W NuV" W WV
struggling patriots He was surprised when Ills
auditors smiled at his simplicity, and was told that
lfthesc imaginary miners went they would be prac-
ucaly further on In st. Domingo nom the seat OF
war in Cuba, and would find II harder TO reach the
latter than II they remained in New York or Phia-
delplha or New Orleans, aud started from those
places.
TIE fooling OF disapprobation and distrust iof the
tourse OF Tire Chairman OF tie Committee OF For
tgn Affairs In the House Is increasing. When shown
my remarks in The svS by several persons, he de-
tlfes they a fabrication, and that lie still promo
pes to report as soon as he can on the question OF
Cuban delinquency; but he evidently knows and
believes that tile facts widely known and be-
lcvcd and must End constant CORPORATION in his
own conduct To others he admits that no only
proposes to do so after tho st. Domingo appropr ria
ton lie passed. lie has been frankly told that this
Is equivalent to Withholding 1t altogether, ns under
these circumstances, the st. Domingo scheme can
pass in the House, H. indeed, 1t now. under
any circumstances. II Is significant OF their knowl
edge Of the temper OF the majority OF Congress, and
Of the popularity OF the Cuban aud unpopularity Of
the 81. Domingo question, that tho st. Domingo
nn,, in their efforts and arguments always ondeavOr
to advance their views on the plea Of some far.
fetched advantage to the Cubans.
Many members here, and among others John H.
Logan, do not hesitate to say that II the cubans
should either obtain fail to obtain their intepeni.
enee.without receiving Acknowledgement OF beiS.
tscut rights rrom tho United States 1t would DO dis
grace never TO be removed from this country Many
cay openly and to Gen Banks, that tae ospons
billy of inaction during the last eight or ten weeks
rests personally WITH him that he has made
Serious effort for hearing with the House, which
he might easily have obtained IL he had; and that
he is practically doing more for Spain ana against
the struggling patriots in Cuba than their worst
enomies have been enabled 10 do, on account
Of the position in which he is placed, permitting
hm.to carry out dog-in-the-manger policy, by
neuer acting himself nor allowing the action OF
others.
The diniculty has been that It would require a
rvothrds majority for q member TO introduce q
resolution a subject In the hands OF a committee
ander . feeling OF delieacy and etiquette but tie
patience OF the Friends Of Cuba, both Republican
and Democratic, Is so thoroughly exhausted that
Fou may depend upon 1t that the Chairman will have
boon notded before this reaches you, that thoy
determined TO proceed without him at all hazards,
Iooner than have the responsibility OF inaction
,hiited from the shoulders OF the Administrator
md saddled the House in matter in which their
constituents take such interest 1t il repeated
generally, that II fraud were not intended with
regard 10 Cuban beligereney, why all these efforts
70 pass the st. Domingo treaty hrstf and why make
Ibe latter preliminary condition OF the formeri
II is now admitted By Mr.. Fishs frends that Mr..
Sidney Webster Is gone TO Spain on business con
seeted with the sale OF the Island OF Clba. 1t was
1t first Only said that he was going to travel in
Europe with his family but 1t Is now patent that
he Webster-R Roberts Ring look to the realization Of
he project which has been unmasked 10 Tux son
consider that all they require is to stave OF the
recognition OF Cuban beligereney, and hurry NJ
xKh laco nj tle 81 nomiugo Ring
Efforts have been made by the Administration &c
prepare the public mind for the anticipated negota
lion for the sale OF Cuba through newspapers which
nAy he supposed 10 take disinteresed view OF th'
question. For instance, the personal relations .
The proprietor Of the Philadelphia Ledger with TIL
President and his late and sent Secretary OF thu
Navy as well rs members Of his household, are no
forgotten, when that cautious pper IL seen 10 CONT
forward it'll editorial assertions like the following
"The Cubans, then, are mal Jog but little ~
Roadway towards independence, and spain Is max
Ing quite AS little towards such suuJusalion OF tn
island as win make 1t Of any great use 20 ner IN tn
future. The war cannot have cost her much sh0Tt Q
dhindred DtA0a u d0Nays dITeady, and pethap
tgsaty 10 FORTY thousand Hrts, With no results bu
TIE intenslhcatIon OF the hate between the natiy
Luuans ana the changing population OF Spaniards
aud the lmpossibility OF harmony hereafter. TIT
bloody reuTisals that have marked the conduct o
Tue war both sides, the sh0Otngs an hanging
10 eoldbiood, tAe giTioing OF prisoners, All SNOW
that there is to be no permanent peace hereafter ez
oept Oh the basis OF separation.
This must be as paen, In Madrid as II is here, ant
Ahp.ds ground for the expectation that the states
men Of that country may now look with more
favorable eyes mediation than they did yea
ago. They would hot treat then until the Cuban
laid dow their arms but he attempt TO fore then
70 surrender is failure and threatens 10 eontinu,
TO be failure indefinitely Can they not be induced
TO lay them down now, Is preliminary to .negoua
uon on the basis which we have good reason To be
heye Was proposed b. General Prim through an emf
nent American In Lond0hi The conditions wsre
the payment Of tl25 0O0OCO; the United states Gov
eminent Ia be tie trustee OF the indemnify fund
the revenue duties and other income resources o
the leland TO be edged for the payment and ~ th
thd 81 the ten or twelve years, which IL was sup
POsed would he required for the pay ment, Cuba Il
20 nee 70 lake her place as independent state,
70 eoine INTO our Union, AZ her option. As affair
shnd Al ms time, there ought to DO difheulty IL
arriving ~ settlement on such basis Us this
both sides are certain 70 lose by delay"
A held day was expected in the House OF Repre-
sentatiyes, on the introduction OF Cuban resolutions
to-day. One for the repeal Of the neutrality laws
ISIS a. far a. they concern the beligerents In Cuba
and the other on the subject OF tue three months Ia
generation Of Cuban eEiles In Key West az detaile
10 The Sun last week but In consequence Of
change n the hour OF meeting from ~ to II oClOch