The San Francisco call., 1896-03-03
SPAIN REGRETS THE INSULT TO OLD GLORY

Oeell IeCOSHlZeu Dy OpdlH q uOntu otlOEe
the first battle of the war-the battle of
Bull Run. The Government of the United
States should now. through the State De-
partment, ask that the people of Cuba
should have a government of their own
choice Wherever American interests
were imperilled, Hit declared in conclu-
sion, marines were landed to protect them.
The great arm of the republic, he ex-
claimed, ought to be ready always to fol-
low its people and protect their interests,
their property and their rights anywhere
in the world. Applause on the floor and
in the galleries.
McCreary Cd of Kentucky, member
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, de-
clared himself emphatically. in favor of
the pending resolutions. He spoke OF the
brutal outrages and barbarous atrocities
OF the Spaniards in Cuba and declared the
time had come when Congress should do
something. The time had come when the
war in Cuba should be stopped. Cuba had
an organized government, legislature,
an organized army, and her people had
successfully met 100000 Spanish soldiers.
In his opinion the resolutions reported
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
were proper and should be adopted. He
wanted to see Cuba free, and he believed
that, in Gods own time. Cuba would be
free and independent republic. Ap-
plause.]
Adams (R.) of Pennsylvania advocted
the resolutions and spoke OF the Liberty
Bell of Independence Hail. Philadelphia,
echoing among the hills of the Queen of
the Antilles. His own opinion was that the
actual recognition of a new government
was an executive function.
Sulzer (D.) of New York argued that the
Cuban patriots were entitled By every
principle of international law to belliger-
ent rights. They had standing army in
the field of over 10000 men. They had
made their declaration of independence
similar to the American declaration, and
more justifable. They had adopted a con-
stitution, republican in form. They had
elected President and Vice-P President and
constitutional Assembly; and they had
Ministry which wss competent to-day to
treat or negotiate with any power on the
face of the globe. If he had his way he
would
But before having chance to say what
he would do if he had his way Sulzer was
cut off in the middle of the sentence by
the fall of the Speakers gavel and heard
a shout of laughter from all sides of the
House and from the galleries.
The debate on the opposite side of the
ga estion was opened by Turner CD of
Georgia, who commented on the fact that
the Committee on Foreign Affairs had not
seen fit to report the facts on which its
recommendations rest. There were no
facts presented, ard pamphlet from the
State Department contained only dreary
record of mutual outrage, incendiarism
and assassination. "And yet," said he,
I'VE are asked to declare that state of
public war exists on the island of Cuba"
AS to the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy by Spain, Turner recalled the
fact that the people OF the Confederacy
held at the time region of country ex-
tending from the mouth of the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, and that it had an army
against which the combined 1egions of
Caesar and the phalanxes of Alexander
would have been utterly unavailing. Ap-
plause.
"What information" Turner asked,
''have we from the gentlemen represent
ing these resolutions on single one of
these impor tant and material questions?
Who is the President of this so-called re-
public? 1 understand be is a citizen of
the United States, and 1 understand that
he is now in the United States in
stead of taking his fate along
with the patriots fighting for
freedom. Where is the capital OF that
country2 How many men have the in.
surgents in their army? Who knows?
What great battles have they fought?
Where are their gallant chieftains who
have met the enemy in the open plain
Instead OF war we have had only stories of
confagration, incendiarism, dynamite, de-
strucuon of property and assassination.
eli 1 had my way the first time that an
outrage is committed on any one of our
own citizens in Cuba I would send our
navy to the island. would send 10000
men to rescue any American citizen from |
wrong and oppression. And the question
is whether we shall. in the dark, without |
information, take measure which would |
affect our friendly relations with Spain |
and on which may depend such mo-
mentous question as that of peace and |
war;"
Turner was followed on the opposite
side of the question by Smith (R.) of
Michigan, who expressed his surprise that
a distinguished lawyer like the gentleman
from Georgia would question the right OF
the United States to recognize the bel
ligerency of the insurgents, because it had |
been decided in the Supreme Court of the
United States in the prize cases that the
power to control the established govern
ment entitled those who exercised such
power to the rights of belligerency.
AS to the President of the Cuban repub-
lie being citizen of the United States
Smith asked Turner to look at the picture
OF Lafayette on the wall near him-the
picture OF one who God inspired to come
to America from the land of France to
help the struggling colonists. He recalled
also the services of Pulaski and Kosciusko
In the cause of American freedom, and
asked whether the people of the United
States would refuse to give their SYM
pathies and services to the cause of other
people struggling for their liberties. The
island OF Cuba was as large as the State of
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