The New York herald., 1871-12-06

clamorIna and gesIicularlns. The uproar wa
frlghiul.
PRESIDENT sssU, senemen order
FlegEa4smI ald not think my words would pro
through my not beng understood well. did not
attribute to the unionist party the ordering our
/ said was that this party were more Obliged than
any other to raise here an accusation but they did
not f.a
PREsIDENT-0rderl order Seniors Deputies, !
recommend grsas calmness and circumspecton,
alterations, and all the more so the Deputy wno
Is speaking IS making political observations which
FlGUERAs TURNS ON rHE PRESIDENT.
FIGUERAs-I suppose, Mr.. President. that IN what
you said OF absurditles ana alterations you old not
PRESIDENT Nothing was further from my mind
sau was sna we shosa sten WITH b
the alterations made, much more SO when what is
said is political conjecture.
the union liberal was the party most under
government who ordered our troops to retire be-
fore those Dominican hordes: think heard Senior
they dare 10 do 1t. Ihear somebody say there was
vote on the subject. II thcre was let the list be
brought here, aud we shall see who voted Tor and
GREAT uPRoAR.
MANY VOICES-Read IL Read iti
Sehor ALARcoN-I demand the reading OF the list
referred TO by SenOr Figueras.
FIdURRAs-lf the Cortes did what with so much
elOquence mas boon c0mbated by SenOr Ayala ]
DON'T envy them tue glory.
PREsIDENT- beg you to consider you are saying
FIGUERAs-Thcy have q direct relation. But now
to one Of the things for which we have prOrogued
ma in coancs Of sso
and Ardanaz have said that only under the request
ri Of
Councils OF Minister'S which they think ought never
% i e. is
ters vaciiiate those who have Faith IN rs forces and
IN its arms ought to promote crisis In the Cabinet
The integrity OF the country ought not be condeo
to people who vaclllate II sucn vaclllatlon at any
Those men should have had ali the energy neces-
sary.
RIOS RosAs-I demand the reading OF the lists
OF those who voted against the abandonment OF st.
FIoUERAs-Yes, it's well 10 read only the names
Of those VINO voted against II, for those who voted
TorErE-I should ike to rectfy mistaken con-
cepuon Of senor Flgueras before the reading Of the
MANY VoIoEs-Read I'll Read IL
ZoaRILLA-H he President will permit me
Cuba and ST. Domingo. The latter and the reading
OF the lists called for might be put on - 4
VOICES AGAIN-Read 1t Read 1t
EsrEBAN CoLLANTEs-To read half vote Is ab-
surd. ! ask 1t all TO be read.
.le0nse MOST UPRoARIoUs scENB.
The Secretary read the document called for entire.
Seniors Fable, Esteban Collantes and Canovas del
Castillo al asked 70 speak. but the President OBJ
snout out that though he had not been one OF the
voters alluded 10, yet he sustained the conduct
ton Of Inc abandonment Of St. Domingo Fig1eras
tried TO bring the House back TO the question OF
the proposal for a sale. After this Canovas del
Castillo got the door. amid great confusion.
oANovAs-l beg the Congress to give me mo.
ment's silence, for have TO answer a very Gear
aud pertinent alluslon. Senior Flgueras, not remem
bering well what happened at the abandonment OF
St. Domingo has censured the Deputies who hav-
ing voted Its annexation afterwards voted It's aban.
after making the annexation by our votes, had con-
tributed 70 the separation without protest. pu. 1t
ae 80 to proPe s Of Rs
could not conquer in st. Domingo o handful
Of undlscipllned and BADLY armed rebels m ign occa
sion us at some future time great conflicts lu Cuba.
II was right or not facts have shown. But neither
then nor now could We do anything but oppose, and
voting the abandonment And II they were right
there should be no accusation against those Cortes,
that those who believed the annexation OF ST. Do
mingo would have advanced the glory Of SPAN
should have opposed Its aDandonment, at any rate
while there renamed one single rebel who asked it
by force. But what is the OF these comparlsonsP
whose % abandonment wouIa mot hurt any interest
crcared, to the terrible dsmemberment OF Cuba,
among the nations or E1ropeG respect the inten-
ti0ns OF Sehor Flgueras In citing this precedent but
y viii we
throw a veil over the crime which hope viii never
be committed, but against which It IS necessary to
illuminate nenceforth all the weight OF public
Inc "crlme" sehor Canovas so denounced II must
be remembered, Is the idea OF Q sale Of Cuba.
z0RRILLA AGAIN ON THE FLOOR.
ZoRRILLA-I had only the intention of rising and
thanking those who have been my ministerial COM
panions for having mad the goodness to answer my
alluslon. But now ! have to say did not think
I ia q NJ
separated IL from its concrete point. The matter Of
the proposition for the sale OF Cuba had terminated,
remains something obscure. have to say that In
tho various Cabinets since the revolution there has
any who are dead, who ever proached the idea OF
selling Cuba. (Cheers) Once we did treat for four
asys sS On Ens sHsr $ow
his report and the Council adopted mis- resolution.
charge against snas to the eect snas
there were men in II who treated OF making single
then cannot say now, but II the House wishes TO
appoint committee TO examine the matter shall
DC ana IN ne there mere
shall be glad also; but II must be brought with all
It's antecedenls and then you you VIII see clearly that
been Ministers have ever proposed the sale Of
Cuba.
sehor ARDANAz-Through senior Figueras inter.
venina In this debate he has carried II TO q point
a M Me has made on n me- for not pro-
voking . crisis IN the Cabinet through the DIVER
& lie should have taken into account that there was
nothing there but different opinions, but as we ar
to provoke q crisis. 1he proof that our accord was
unanimous was that no other Cabinet ever sur
passed in the desire TO hold Cuba in subsection.
ff there had been divergencies I would have pro-
voKed crisis myself, for II Is well known have no
affection for the Ianco azu and left 1t without re.
gret, when, on another p0nt-nnance-l differed
FROM my companions. In CONCLUSION lei me say,
see no objections to the production OF the documents
indicated by Sen0r Z0rrllla
Senior BECERKA-I rise only to say as proof OF
the decision OF the Cabinet In which was Colonial
Minister, to dominate In Cuba, when the Captain
General said he needed reini0rcements Of 5000 men
to crush the lnsurrccti0n VIC sent him IL, 00o You
will see how that Cabinet wished TO put down the
rebels.