Evening star., 1896-02-21
THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
Forcible Utterances Made by Senators
Lodge and Morgan.
The Former Advocates Recognition
of the Insurgents and the Lat-
ter Predicts War.

The Cuban question came before the Sem
ate yesterday afternoon for definite and
hnal action. and it is expected that votes
Will be taken at an early day on the sew
eral pending propositions requesting Spain
10 recognize the bellgerency of Cuba, and
requesting recognition of Cuban inde-
pendence. There is every indication also,
that the debate will lead to more radical
and decisive resolutions
The opening of the debate drew large
crowds to the galleries, and there were fire.
quent demonstrations of approval at the
stirring and dramatic utterances Of sew
eral of the speakers. Mr.. Lodge of Massa-
chusetts and Mr. Morgan of Alabama We're
particularly forcibIe and direct in their
language, Mr.. Morgan expressing the be-
lief that war between the United States
and Spain would result from recogniz-
ing the Cubans as belligerents. In graph
caly octurins the rise and spread Of the
rebellion, Mr.. Lodge said:
Mr.. Lodges FercibIe Lancunge
Just year ago another revolution be-
gan. 1t began In the eastern part of the
island. with small band of 800 men, With
the vast wilderness of the lying bulletins
that come from Spanish sources. IT is very
difficult. and it is not worth while, per-
hals, to try to trace the battles which
great facts which there is no mstaking
Those men who started so feebIy year
ago IN the eastern part of the island ha We
crept ever tha island from one end to the
other. The JUJ have grown until even to-
day the hostile accounts represent them a
1900 i'll the field. We know that the rail-
road lines are cut, that the telegraph lines
are down, that every report of a Spanish
victory that comes to US in the newspapers
is followed by the statement of o fresh in
SUFgent advance q n ,ay yfa,. ..,f
fact that the whole of that island today
except where the Spanish fleets ride at an
chor and where the Spanish armies are en-
camped, is in the hands Of the Insurgents
We know they have formed a government
that they have held two elections, that
every officer in the army holds his COM
mission from the government which they
have established. We know the terms OF
that provisional government, and in the
presence of these facts, and Of the fight
ing that these men haye done, l think it
not unreasonable of them to ask some rec
oSnition at the hands of the United
States.'
Comparing the former commander. Gen
Martinez Campos. with the present one
Gen. Weyler, Mr.. Lodge said:
Martinez Campos, The ablest general in
Spain, has been recalled because he failed
TO put down this inSurrecuOn-recalicd
when the insursent troops had been act
ually in the suburbs Of Havana, and in his
place has been sent man whose only rep
most cold-blooded brutality in the last war
for liberty in that island"
Again the Senator said, referring to the
desperate fighting of the insurgents:
Cuba L. fighting not only for indepen-
dence. These men are tigh ting, ev"ry one
of them. with a price on their heads, ani
a rope around their necks They have
shown that they could fight well They
are fighting the battle of despair
There was hearty applause as Mr.. Lodge
closed his remarks:
IF that wal goes on in Cuba with TIL.
added horrors which this new general
brings with him." he said, ''if IT continues,
the responsibility is on US. We cannot es-
cape it. We should exert every influence
of the United States. Standing as / be
teve They do, for humanity and civiliZa-
ton. We should exercise every influence of
our great country to put stop to that
great war, which IS now raging there and
try TO give 10 that island once more peace
and liberty and security