The Portland daily press., 1875-11-01
WASHINGTON.
Our Relations With Spain.
The Points of the American Note
on Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Oct 31.-The discussion of
of the Spanish Cabinets reply to what is called
In THE Washington Note has reference to
the unsettled questions between the two coun-
tries, the statement of them being from the
verbiage OF correspondence and presented in a
comparatively hriefimemorandum. 1.-THE exact
points of this official paper cannot be ascer-
tanned, but they may be inferred as follows
The views of the President which form the
basis of the instruction to Minister
Gushing. show that the President re-
CARDS the civil discussions in Cuba and
especially the sanguinary hostilities as produc-
ing effects in the United States second in gravi
ty only to those which they produce in Spain !;
that the ultimate issue of events in Cuba will
be its Independence however that issue may
be produced, whether by means of negotiation
or as the result of military operations or one of
those unexpected incidents which so frequently
determine the fate of nations; that the continu-
ance of the instruction grows day by day more
insupportable to the United States, and while
the attention of this government is fixed on
cuba IN the interest of humanity by the hOr-
rors of the civil war prevailing there, it cannot
1orbear to reflect that the existence of slave la
Dor 10 Cuba and its influence over the feelings
and interests of the peninsular Spaniards lie at
the foundation OF all the calamities which now
amlct island; but slavery cannot long continue
IN Cuba environed as that island is of emarci-
pated slaves in the other West India islands
and in the United States.
The President has not been without the hope
tnat all these questions might be settled by the
spontaneous act of Spain herself she being
more deeply interested in such settlement than
all the rest of the world. The question as to
what decision the UNITED States shall make is
serious and difficult one, not to be determin.
ed without careful consideration of its complex
elements of domestic and foreign policy, but
the determination of which may at any mo-
ment he enforced upon us by occurrences either
In Cuba or Spain. Wthal the President can
not but regard independence, and emancipa-
ZION OF course, as the only certain and even the
necessary solution of the question of Cuba, and
IN his mind all incidental questions are quite
sq6ordna to these, the large objects of the
United States in this respect The President
GOES not mediate or desire the annexation of
Cuoa to the United States but its elevation
into an independent republic of freemen in har-
mony, with ourselvesi and with. the other
republics OF America. The policy of the United
states IN reference to Cuba at the present time
is declared to be one of expectancy but with
positive and fixed convictions as to the duty of
the Onlred States when the time or emergency
OF action shall arrive.
The Witkowski Frauds.
1t is stated that indictments will be present-
ed to day by the grand jury against Julius Wit
kowski, who recently obtained $2S. 900 from the
treasury for logs alleged to have been furnished
for building Notifications near Nashville. Ex-
Congressman Negley of Pennsylvania, who en-
dorsed Witkowski's fraudulent claim, Daniel
G. Stuart, who was Capt. Mortons principal
assistant at Nashville, and who is supposed to
be now at the Brooklyn navy yard, Aaron
Drummer, a contractor in Tennessee during
the war, and one other person will also be in
dicted with Witkowski. The tlatter is charg-
ed with desrauding the United States, and the
Others are charged with conspiracy to defraud