The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-20
THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
rs STILL THE BONE or CONTEN-
IION IN THE SENATE.

Mr, stewart OF NeFaua bellVers an Auuress
in support but Senator Gray of Delaware
States His Reasons why He Opposes
Them.
Washington, March 19.--At the close
of the morning business in the senate
MIR. Sherman, rep, OF Ohio, moved TO
proceed to the consideration of the con-
ference report on the Cuban resolution
The conference report was then taken
up.
Mr.. Stewart, pop, of Nevada ao-
dressed the senate in support of the
resolutions. He did not wish, he said,
to prolong the discussion. He was anN-
ious for action. The facts were too no
torious to need further statement.
Spain had sent, during this war, more
than 125, 900 soldiers against a popula-
ton of 100000, and that people had
resisted Spain in this last war for more
than a year. 1t was known of all men
that, for nearly century, that contest
had been going on and the people OF
Cuba had been struggling for liberty.
If that people were not entitled to the
sympathy and support of the people of
the United States their boasts of being
lovers of liberty were vain. 1t was a
reproach to the American people that
they had stood by, so long, and Witness
ed the vain attempt of Spain to govern
Cuba He compared the case of Spain
in Cuba with that of England in Egypt
and said that the English policy in
Egypt was being extended to this hem
isphere If Spain held Cuba she would
hold her, as she had done for the last
hundred years, with an army and would
increase the Cuban debt and enslave
the people. The heart of every patriot
in the United States went to Cuba.
Mr. Gray, dem, of Delaware, a MEM
ber of the committee on foreign rela-
tions, said that he wished to state the
the reasons which compelled him to
withhold his assent from the confer
ence report. 1t would be vain to at
tempt to disguise the feeling of sympa-
thy that occupied the breast of every
true American in regard to the strug-
gle in Cuba And yet the government
of the United States had strictly en-
forced the neutrality laws and had gone
to the very verge of it's international
obligations in protecting Spain from
the effect of that widespread sympathy
That feeling had found proper, respect
full and courteous expression in the res
olutions passed by the senate. How
ever much Spain might be irritated by
the action, she had no right in an inter-
national point to find fault with or to
call to account the government of the
United States for expression of the
opinion of it's people.
Mr. Gray argued that there was no
reason why the senate should accept
the house resolutions after it's own
resolutions had been contemptuously
swept aside. He thought that there
was a grave objection to the language
of the house resolution. Il did not put
the attitude of congress where it ought
to be put as correctly as the senate
resolution did.
Mr. Platt inquired whether there was
any proof before the committee on
foreign resolutions that Spain had fail
ed to carry out her promises at the
pacifcation of the lats revolt in Cuba.
Mr.. Hale observed that it was re-
markable that the committee on foreign
relations had not furnished any facts
on that point. The senator from Ohio
(Sherman) had merely stated that
Spain had violated her promises. Mr..
Hale asserted the contrary. Spain, he
said had given home rule to Cuba.
She had established council, made
up half by election and half by ap-
pointment Representation in the cor
tes had been accorded to Cuba and
Porto Rico And just as Spain was
enlarging those concessions ito home
rule the present revolt had broken out.
Mr.. Hale remarked that those were
s'facts which this country has never
been permitted to know"
Mr.. Hoar joined in criticising the re-
cent tsatement of Mr. Sherman that
Spain had refused to carry out any
of the promises which she had made.
He asked whether the committee on
foreign relations stood by or did they
stand by it's chairman's statement.
Mr.. GRAY said he did not understand
that the committee had passed defin-
itely on that. What it passed upon was
"wbether such a state of public war
existed in Cuba as entitled 1t to be
recognized as a belligerency.
Mr.. Sherman said he had read let
ter from General Campos, written a
wear after the pacification of 1878 show
ing that all of the promises of Spain
had been violated.
Mr.. Platt asked in what respect Spain
had failed to keep the promises made
in the terms of capitulation of 1878
Mr.. Hale inquired whether any body
denied that Cuba had representatives
in the cortes.
Mr. Sherman-She has one delegate.
Mr.. Hale-I have a list here showing
that Cuba and Porto Rico have IN the
Spanish cortes forty-five members III
the house of deputies and fourteen OF
fifteen members in the senate.
Mr.. Gray-How many of them are
appointed by the governor general oi
Cuba?
After further remarks Nh. Hale eX-
claimed-I speak with some feeling be-
cause am laboring under sense oil
Indignation on account of the suppress
sion of the real facts in this case. The
committee has kept the facts from the
senate.
MIR. Gray proceeded with his speech,
in which he was so frequently inter-
rupted by Mr.. Hale that Mr.. Gray sar-
casticaliy apologized for breaking SO
often into Mr.. Hale's speech and re-