New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-30
WASHINGTON.
INTERVENTION IN CUBA.


4 PROPOSITION MADE To THE EUROPEAN POWERS
THE RELIEF THAT THEY ARE FAVORABLE
TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PARTICULAR
GRiEFs."
IBY rEIEGRAPH To THE TRIBuNs.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The excitement IN regari
% Cuba has been revived by the reports from VI
enna circulated to-day that the United States has
proposed TO the leading European Powers lntervcn-
tion 10 arrest the war in Cuba, and that England
has sigiied her willingness TO join MS In such an
Undertaking, while other European nations, though
favoring it, are not anxious to take the initiative
This news is simply in confirmation or rumor prev
slent here for several weeks. 1t is reported
on excellent authority that Secretary FISH
IN an unofficial way suggested something
of the same nature TO the representa-
tives of European Governments in Washington
month ago and asked their private opinions,
whether Intervention in Cuba by the United States
would be looked upon with dlsfavOr or not by the
powers they represented There is therefore, a
general disposition to credit the present news. The
diplomatic corps is said TO have been almost unani-
mously of the opinion that intervention In Cuba OF
the kind suggested would be approved by their
home governments The impression That the re
ports referred to may be true is also strengthened
bv the evaSve answers with which attempts 10
learn ANYTHING about these reports are
met in Official quarters. They are neither
denied nor affirmed and the manner
In which those questioned treat the subject leaves
the impression that more has leaked out about THIS
correspondence tuan the Administration is quite
ready OF itself to make public Such action as Is in
Dictated is inst what the people of the United States
have right to expect, unless the President IN ms
annual message used language without meaning !;
and there is the highest authority for saying that on
this subject he weighed carefully the words he
chose.
To understand the Cuban question, II should he
remembered that while there are particular gricfS"
of which our Government has complained. and Tor
the redress Of which negotiations have long been
pending; aside and distinct from these Is the
injurious effect of the continuance of the STRIFE IN
Cuba upon the interests of all commercial nations,
and especially upon those of the United States " by
reason" as the President said in his message " OF
close proximity ITS larger tade and intercourse with
Cuba. and the frequent and intimate personal and
social relations which have grown mp between Its
eitiyens and those Of the island" The par
tic1lar criefs snch as the disregard of the rights
of person and property of citizens, the trial OF
Aneric ans by martial the seizure and reten-
ton of estates owned by Americans, &c, may be
satisfactorily arranged. Although the late CORE
spopdence from Madrid has not been just what our
Government has wished it has been very friendly
md n thing has occurred to prevent peaceabie I'M
derstandiug from being reached; but the bringing
about of n cessation of hOStties in Cuba by diplo-
matte appeals is the President tells Ms, hopeless
task and only two alternatives remain: Inedlatloh
and intervention, with the probability That the lat-
ter will Inc resnr. ed to- The latest leads 10 the
lelief in Washington that Gen. Grant mas taken Tue
first steps toward such Intervention.