The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-18
TALK, AND VOTING ON CUBA.


The final action of the House on the Cuban
question seems judicious. 1t is in precise
accordance with the earnest appeal which we
lately felt called upon to address to the Presi-
dent; and we do not doubt that compliance
with it will give him as much pleasure as we
know it will give the country. There is
war in Cuba. 1t has been conducted in a
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 de-
clares these things fairly represents the
earnest wish of the great majority of the
American people. That wish we know
General Grant will be very glad to execute,
and in doing so will bring to his official action
the stimulus 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 ma
tional honor, and perhaps concerning vitally
the cause of the insurgent islanders for whom
our people feel SO much sympathy, that the
calm, temperate, and dignifed spirit of the
honorable gentlemen engaged in it must be
peculiarly gratifying to every thoughtful
American citizen. General Butler replies
to the solid arguments and eloquent ap-
peal of General Banks by fourishing in
the eyes of the House two Cuban bonds,
purchased through the cadetship-seller De-
weese, who seems to have filed in this theatri-
cal exhibition the congenial function of pro-
perty-man. MIR. Randall answers Butler with
the exclamation, 'Oh, moonshine!" Mr.
Logan congratulates himself that he cannot
be ''on both sides at once, like the gentleman
from Massachusetts" and declares that
Butler has surrounded himself with ''a parcel
of detectives and disreputable scavengers -
Charges of completely in speculative jobs and
lobby rings are freely interchanged. General
Butler intimates that Mr. Randall is a fool.
Mr. Randall retorts that fools are sometimes
honest, which the gentleman from Massachu-
setts never is. Then, after discussion OF
the literary and legal engagements of the Hon.
Caleb Cushing General Logan reads General
Butler a lesson in good manners, and observes
that his remarks are slow.
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 anothers
wigs. II is no worse than recent scene in
the House of Commons, where the famous
No.Popery member, Mr.. Whalley, was assailed
with cries of ''Kiek him Suangle him =
Mr.. Bernal Osborne once described Govern
ment member. noted for his devotion to Sin
Robert Peel, as "a tin kettle attached to the
tail of the member for Tamworth;" and Mr..
Gladstone, if We remember rightly, admins
tered severe rebuke to the great Tory states
mrn and novelist because, in reply to a ques
tion, 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.. Disraeli, we're milo
and msnnerly wit compared with th'
boorish rudeness of the gentlemen
In Washington. Mr.. Butler ought to un
derstand that it is not at all funny TO call Mr.