The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
CAMERON REPORTS.
The Senate Committee Favors the
 Adoption Of the Cuban Resolution.
MANY PRECEDENrs QUOTED.
President Grant said to Have Admitted the Justice of the Cuban Tnsur- gents Claims to Recogni-
 ton In 1869.

the report or the committee on IOfSlgn relations favorably to the adoption of the following joint resolution.
 Resolved, By the senate and house Of repre- sentatiyes Of tne Uaied states of America, in congress assembled. taat. the independence Of the republic of Cuoa b. ana the same is hereby acknowledged by the United States q America.
 Be ltfurther resolved. Tha the United States will use it's friendly offices w4tn the govern ment of Spain to bring to close the war be- tween Spain and the republic of Cuba.
 The report, which is very volumi- nous, says
 Congress, at its last session, after long and patient consideration alopta1 with practical unanimity he view expressed by your com mittee that the time had come for interven- tion with Spain for tho recognition of the in dependence of Cubt Spain having declined to listen to any representatiol founded an understanding between herse and the insur- gents and congress having pledged itself 10 the friendly int rvention. the only question that remains to be decided is lhe nature of the next step to be taken with proper reglrd to the cus- toms and usages of the nations.
 The report then quotes the course of the European nations in cases of rev olutions during the present century. The American preceatnts are handled exhaustivelv. After tracing the up itSlHS7 III -tcAlCO, NenGZutitts MILL. lh Argentine Republic. against Spainish rule, the report says:
 The question of intervention began in lslT The Spanish government app ,aicG to the Eu- ropean powers for aid The czar openly took sides with Spain, and when in September, lslT. the Spanish government ask permission to build several ships of war in the Russian dock yards the czar suggested thut Stain should buy five ships of the line anu three frigates be- longing to the Russian navy. This was done and the ships were sent to the seat of var At the same time, in Oeteber Isli. the Russian government instructed it's ambassador in Lon- don to press on the British government the great importance of European intervention President Monroe dsci . q, as early as April, ISIS, to discourage European mediation. In August he made a formal proposal to tho British and French governments for a concerted and contemporary recogni ton of Buenos Ayres, whose de fac to independence made that country the natural object of first step toward the estab- lishment of general policy. In December he notified b lth governments that he had pa- tiently waited without interfering in the policy of the allies, but they had not agreed upon anything and q the fact os the independence of Buenos Ayres api cared established he thought that recognition was necessary. In January. 15lg, he announced to them that he was actually considering the measure. Thus tu. upon the propriety of intervention between Spain and her colonies
 In case of the reeo gnition of Texas, the report quotes from report made June IS, 1896, by Mir. Clay, from the senate commiteee on fore,gn relations, which says:
 The recognition of Texas as an independent power may be made by he United states in various ways: First. by treaty. second, by the passage of a law regulating commercial intercourse between the two powers third, by sending diplomatic agent to Texas with the usual credentials. or lastly, by the executive receiving and accredtinp diplomatic representative from Texas which would be recognition as far as the executive only is competent to nuke 1t
 President Andrew Jackson, in his Texas message of December 2l, 1886, is quoted as saying:
 In the preamble to the resolution of the house of repre- seutatyeS. it. is distinctly inti- mated that the expedicncs of recognizing the independence of Texas should be left to the decision of congress. In this view, the ground of expcdiency. am disposed to concur, and do not, therefore, consider l. necessary to express an opinion to the strict constitu- tional right of the executive, either apart from, or in conjunction with. the senate over the subject
 Under the subhead of Cuba the report concludes as follows:
 No serious question was again raised with any European power in regard to the insur- rection CT indepe ldence of their American possessions until. ill lst9, rebellion broke out in Cuba and the insurgents, alter organizing a government and declaring their independence claimed recognition from the United States The gov ernment of the Uuited States had always re- garded Cuba within the sphere of is most active and serious interest The actual condi- tion of Spain seemed to make her retention of Cuba impossible, in which case the United States would have been obliged. for their own safety to prevent the island from falling into the hands Of a stronger power in Europe. That this emergency did not occur may have been partly due to the energy with which MT Monroe pronounced tour right and our pow CT to prevent it. and his determination to use all the means within his competency to guard against and forefend it. This right of intervention in matters relating to the ex- ternal relations to Cuba, assertedand exercised 70 years ago, has been asserted and exercised at every crises in which the island has been involved. When the Cuban insurgents in I5eS appealed to the United States for recognition President Grant admitted the justice of the claim and directed the minister of the United States at Madrid to interpose our good offices with the Spanish government in order to obtain by q friendly arrangement the inde- pendence of the island.
 The story of that intervention is familiar to every member Of the senate and was made the basis of it's resolution last session. requesting the president once more ito fnterpose his friendly offices with the Spanish government for the recognition of the independence of Cuba" The resolution then adopted by con- gress was perfectly understood to carry with is all the consequences which necessarily would follow the rejection by Spain of friendly offices.
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