The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-24

w FAtten Dy ana In
dOrSed by the Spanish Minis
Ter-CauSIiC r. View of
Grants Cuban Policy by
Gen. Banks.
Tuesday was the day setapart in
the house of representatives for the
consideration of reports from the
foreign committee on Cuban affairs.
The majority Of the committee rec
omended that the President mans
tain strict neutrality; that both Gu
bans and Spaniards shall be treat
ed alike; and request the President
to protest against the barbarous
manner in which the war in Cuba
is carried on. These recomenda-
tons were embodied IN a bill, and
it was to defeat this bill President
Grant sent in his message. Gen.
Banks. as Chairman of the foreign,
committee, made the opening
speech. The diplomatic gallery of
the house was crowded; IN another
part of the gallery were the Cuban
sympathizers, whlIo Gun, Jordan
was in the reporters gallery. A
special despatch gives this descrIp-
ton OF Banks speech:
He spoke for nearly an hour and
half, and there has never been a
speech in either house that was
listened to with more patient atten-
ton aid interest. There was unu-
sually large attendance of men,
bers, and there was not a person IN
the whole house who did not hear
every word which the speaker ut
tered. Ills eloquence was ~electri-
cal and his beautiful manner Of de-
livery, his cnuuciatIun, his graceful
gestures, aud his earnestness, car
rIed tho sympathIzers Of his audi
ence IN a whirlwind. There was
nothing presumptlve in his manner.
He was d%ignIfed, modest, and spoke
with an earnestncss of conviction.
A more eloquent and fOrc;ble ad-
dress has not been made in the
house for years. lie SAID he did
not blame the President for the sem
timents of the message, bu: he did
blame the lawyers who had the fra
ming of it. referring particularly to
Caleb Cushing, who Is known to
have written the message; and be
was alluded to by tho speaker sew
eral times, IN u contempIuous man
mir.
Gen Banks at the commencement
of his speech said the arguments on
international law read as if they
might have been prepared by o
person in the pay of Shanish gov
eminent, and also in the pay of
the Uuited States; referring, of
course, to Cushing, but declined
mentioning'his name when request
ed 10 do SO.
THE PRESIDENTS CHARGES OF BRU-
TALL ON bO1u S1DESs
Mr.. Banks next referred to that
part Of the Presidents message re-
Iating to brutaliues being commits
led on both sides, all Of which, he
SAID, might have como from the
Spanish minister [sensatiOn1. Ii
would become tho Spanish minister
better than an American minister
of state. He would say for Cubans
who were instinct with ths charac-
ter of the American people, that if
they had been left to conduct their
contest under the rules Of civilized
warfare, not n would have been
butchereG by them in a cruel and
unjustifiablc manner. lie would
not attempt to Justify the reported
murder ON the wholesale of six
hundred prisoners Of war, by one
OF the chiefs Of the insurgents,
though they could do nothing else
but retaliate or see the country de-
populated by S~paniards. He did
not blame the President Cor not InN
~terfering. Congress had taught
the President that it was danger
Gus for him to entertain an opinion
or do an act that might be called
;mpolicy. Laughter on the Dem
ocratIc sidel. And, therefore, if he
saw those things done and said
nothing, it was his fault; but, if
members of Congress who claim
absolute and unlimited power in
the administration of the govern
ment saw these things, and permit
led them, and justified them, or
gloated over them, they ought to
numbered among the damned for
ever and ever. The curse of God
should rest upon them. Applause
suppressed by tho speaker
They were responsible for these
things. There had not been a
prisoner of war butchercd in Cuba,
not a woman or child sent TO etern-
Ity, for which Congress was no. re-
sponsIble, for it had the power TO
check such b%arburity, and did not
exercise it.
Twelve million of people would
Join the United States in the cry of
condemnation against it, but Con
gress dares not utter a word against
such a wholesale butchery Of de-
fenseless people of Cuba, and now
they were told that so long as the
Spaniar6s murdered women and
children so long there was no war,
and the United States had no right
to interfere with them in any way.
That was what was called law. He
did not blame the President for IT.,
rot at all, but a lawyer, for any,
thing but pay, that would eend to
representatives Of the people q doc
trihe like that for them 20 act upon,
ought to be forever repudiated and
forbidden the presence Of civilized
men. Applause IN the gallery and
laughter among Democrats
The Speaker stated that any man,
ifestatIOns of applause were posi-
forbidden by the rules, blu.
in conclusion he said he would let