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RELIGHT ON CUBA ASKED
THE MORGAN RESOLUTION AGREED TO
BY THE SENATE
1T REQUESTS THE PRESIDENT TO SEND IN
RECENT CUBAN AND SPANISH CORRESPOND
ENcE-THE ALABAMA SENATOR TALKS
TO SLIM AUDIENCE-ANOTHER
RESOI rTION INTRODUCED
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Washington. Dec. Ex-senator Morgan spoke
to-day in support OF his resolution introduced
yesterday. requesting the President to furnish
recent Cuban and Spanish correspondence to
the Senate. The speech was rather temperate
in tone compared with former utterances on the
same topic BY the Alabama Senator. but 1t ex-
pressed with sufficient vigor and emphasis the
sympathy which he has always felt for the
cause OF the Cuban insurgents. as well as his
well-known opinions in regard to intervention
in behalf Of Cuban independence by the United
States
Speaking Of the Presidents Message, Mr..
Morgan said that 1t Of the most impressive
Importance as statement of the leading facts,
and that he had not heard that Spain cOntro-
verted any of the Presidents statements. He
condemned the cruel ard inhuman butchery''
practised by the Spaniards and said that il the
United States wanted to stop a war Of annihila-
ton and determination it had no time to lose.
Congress. he said. should not hesitate TO declare.
for the reasons stated in the Presidents Mes
sage, that the independence Of Cuba is recog-
nized. The people and the property OF the island
were. he declared, the prey Of guerillas. who
had become robbers. cut-throats. assassins and
pirates. and an end had to he put that
saturnalia Of blood ard fire.
IN commenting on the Presidents Message
Mr. Morgan said that it a marked feature
in 1t that the President assumed that the issue
between Cuba and Spain either indepen-
dence or determination. The President had
warned Spain that the time for decisive action
was near at hand. and if he should say
that the time had arrived the American people
would sustain him.
American citizens Of Cuba had rights under
Of v-nfc tbo ~ tho
United States and Of all neutral countries would
protect and enforce, in spite Of opposition
from the President. If he should oppose them
The United States Government should be in the
most humating state Of "innocuous desuetude'
II 1t extended no helping hand to the sufferers
in Cuba and il it refused to forbid further
devastation and death which a cruel Government
now inficting After quoting some para
graphs from the Presidents Message Mr. Nor.
gan asserted that Congress had never been con-
fronted by stronger more moving statement
OF facts than had been thus solOnnly laid be.
fore the political and war-making department
Of the Government.
Mr.. Morgan went on to discuss the case Of
American citizens sentenced to death in Cuba on
account Of their connection with the Competitor.
and spoke OF the United States standing by and
witnessing that tragedy because interference
interests. II the United States were to In
tervene at ALL he would prefer open war. And
ne would vote for resolution to that effect-hiS
justification being the laws Of nations as he un-
derstood them and the feeling that he enter
,ained for those who lifted up their appealing
hands and called for help against appalling
cruelty and msrue. No State In Spanish Ameri-
ca had ever been forced TO endure such Oppres-
sion in peace and as the President In his
Message had justly charged to Spanish rule in
Cuba. The United States. he declared had
he ippl la oh he
by the President. or a base, humiliating delay
while ra pine and destruction rampant. I'm
the hope that fortunate turn in events
might relieve the United States from duty
which it owed to humanity and Christian civilIza-
tior.
At the close Of Mr. Morgans speech. which was
read from manuscript to a small number Of Sena-
tors. the resolution was agreed To.
Mr.. Woodman 'Rep.. I'D. introduced in the
House to-day a Joint resolution directing the
President to act in Cuban affairs" as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States Of erica. in Congress
assembled. That the President be and he Is hereby
directed TO express to The Government OF spain.
tion OF the methods of warfare pursued by its forces
in Cuba and especially of the means resorted TO In
Resolved. That the President is hereby directed to
recognize the Republic OF Cuba as an independents
State and TO accord said Repul lie OF cuba all the
rights ard privileges I'm the ports and IN the terri
tory OF the United States enjoyed by the most IA.
resolved That the President be and he Is hereby
through irs official representatives that all armed
forces OF Span he at once Withdrawn from the ISL
and OF Cuba and its ports and To take such steps
as may be necessary 10 enforce such demand.
The resolution was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs.