The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-22

Washington. Dec. 21.-The report
from the committee on foreign relations
en- Joint resolution acknowledging the
independence of Cuba and Offering the
friendly offices of this government with
Spain to bring to a close the war be-
tween Spain and the republic of
Cuba was presented in the senate to-
day. 1t is a document of very great
length, and deals thoroughly. though
briefly, in its opening with modern
pIecedents OF European Intervention
where independence was the issue in
volved, the committee having, as its
report mentions, examined with care
all the instances which have occurred
during this century of peoples claiming
independence by right of revolt. The
opening lines of the report read that:
Congress, at its last session, after
long and patient consideration, adopted
with practical unanimity the view ex-
pressed by the committee that the time
had come for resuming Intervention
with Spain for the recognition of the
independence of Cuba, Spain having
declined to listen TO any representa-
ton founded on an understanding be-
tween herself and the insurgents. and
friendly intervention, the only queS-
ton that remains to be decided is the
nature of the next step to be taken
with proper regard to the customs and
usages of nations.
THE GRECIAN- REBELS.
With little preamble the report then
shows that the modern precedents OF
European Intervention. where indie
pendence was the issue involved, began
with Greece" in the struggle which
lasted from 1921 to 1927. The summary
of the events in this strife. where,
within a month. the rebels got pos
session of all the open country and all
the towns. except so far as they were
held bv Turkish garrisons, is told IN
graphic manner. The sultan mme-
diately called all Mussulmen to arms:
the Greek patriarch was hanged at the
door of his own church at CONSTANT
nozzle. Several hundred merchants
were massacred: several hundred
Christian churches were destroyed and
the Russian ambassador insulted-
1t is shown that no government IN
Europe sympathized with the Greek
rebels. Incidents of the struggle IN
which the Greeks fought for independ-
ence are concisely pointed out, traced
until the period when the powers IN
duced Turkey to consent to allow her
affairs TO be discussed in the general
conference on Russia's insistence that
the Greek insurrectiOn should De lncluu-
ed among the subjects of mediation
The Turkish government declared IN tne
! most energetic language, that II would
never admit of such interference OF
| consent to make the affairs OF Greece
a subject of negotiations with Russia.
These events of the history OF that
struggle are carried along in the report
10 the date at which the sultan. declln-
ing to the last to permit any mediation
| between himself and his devoted SUD
iacts. the three pOwers-France, En-
/ gland and Russia-on the 9th OF July.
| 1927. united in a formal treaty signed
in London. which committed tneIn 70
armed intervention in case the sultan
/ should still reject their DrOffered me-
diation. within the space of month
Following in regular order IN It's de-
tails of circumstances of European ma
lions claiming independence on the
ground of the right of revolution, the
case is mentioned OF Belgium against
/ the Netherlands in 1880. where the KING
/ of Holland was cOerced into accepting
j conditions imposed by the powers upon
/ a show of armed hostility in November
| 1870 by the governments of France
and England
The coincident rebellion in Poland,
! in which the car notified the minis
fer of the new French king. Louis
J Philippe. that he would tolerate no IN
\ Prevention il Poland" is gwen atteil-
ton. Then follows in the series Oh
F,r,ropean nations claiming independ-
ence. the recital or the oeposal I'm ',..
the throne of the HaDsburS dynasty
followed by the election of Louis Kos
suth as provisional president, and the
intervention OF Russia on the GROUND
I that IL she did so intervene Hungary
would establish her independence.
PRECEDENTs.
This precedent" continues the re-
mort ..tended to establish the right OF
| Every government to intervene in the
! affairs of foreign states whenever the
Situation should tend To endanger Its
own safety or the political equilibrium
on ito frontier" AS far as known,
sl1arv other government in the world
| tacitly acquiesced in the establishment
of this precedent. If any government
recorded protest. it was that OF the
United States, but then the OH lls
/ States protested only by inference from
the acts and language of the presi-
dent"
s.The Russian intervention brought
| the war so quickly TO an end that be-
force October, all resistance was over
1 and when congress met early IN De-
leember, 1919. President Taylor's annua,
message could only proclaim wha'
would have been the American policy
Interventions have occurred mos'
conspicuously, in Spain, by France II
1S23. in Portugal, by England IN 1876
again in Spain and Portugal in 1885,
nv england and France, under whal
Was called the quadruple treaty anc
many other instances of national inter
vanfions in the affairs of other states
are alluded TO. while since 1877, says
the report, Intervention in the a1alrs
Of the Ottoman empire have been Sc
constant as TO create body OF Juris
prudence and a long series OF treAele'
on which the existence OF all politica