The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-03

| foreign affairs had not seen lit to re-
port the facts on which the recommen-
dations rested. A pamphlet from the
state department contained only a
dreary record of mutual outrage, in
cendiarism and assassination.
And yet" he said, 1--WE are asked to
declare that state Of public war eX-
lists in Cuba"
AS to the recognition of the southern
| Confederacy by Spain, Mr.. Turner said
| the people of the south held a region
extending from the mouth of the Poto-
mac to the Rio Grande, and had an ar
my against which the combined legions
of Caesar and the phalanXes of Alex
ander would have been utterly una
vailing. (Applause) He was amazed
that an effort was made to do in this
country what was done in Barcelona
| yesterday-to appeal to the mob spirit
with tales of Spanish atrocity. The
| Spanish government had given the
amende honorable to the United States
| for what occurred yesterday in Spain.
The story told of Spanish outrages in
Cuba We're utterly incredible. He re-
called General Grants statement in q
message to congress that during the
| ten years struggle the Cuban general
| Quesada had at one time executed $50
| prisoners "at one fell swoop." He die
not believe that a state of war, such as
was understood under international
| law, existed. Mr.. Turner wanted to
know who the president of the Cuban
republic was. Instead of war, he said,
we have had only stories of conflagra-
ton, incendiarism, dynamite, destruc-
! ton of property and assassination. The
! question is whether we shall, in the
Clark, without information, take meas
/ ure which would affect our friendly re-
| lations with Spain, and on which may
depend such a momentous question as
| that of peace and war.
Mr.. Smith, rep, of Michigan, replied
to Mr.. Turner. He recalled the services
of Lafayette 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 liber-
ties.
| Mr.. Boutelle, rep, Of Maine, opposed
the resolutions. He sarcastically re-
marked that he hardly expected to con
vince all the members that their public
duty did not require them to vote for
the resolutions. He desired however,
to emphasize his expression of a few
days ago when he objected to the sum
mary disposition of question of the
gravest character by what ought to be
| Tin the absence of conservatism in the
senate) the conservatism of congress.
1 If he needed any justification he found
it in the fact that the objection he then
made to hasty consideration of the res
olutionS had had, at least, the effect of
having one of them revised by the
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs. He agreed with Mr.. Hit in
| the wisdom of that act. He spoke to-
/ day for those members of the house,
| who We're more numerous than was
supposed, who--whatever their sympa-
thies in regard to the struggle in Cuba
had grave doubts as to the expediency
or propriety of the house voting "a
practical declaration of war against a
power with which we are now at peace"
under suspension of the rules. He
was opposed to passing such important
resolutions without a fair amount of
discussion and without essential delib-
! GRAFTON. His judgment was against
committing the government to course
which might turn the whole trend of
public affairs from the paths and avo-
cations of peace to those of war. He
was not enamored with the prospect Of
war. He was not afraid to say that he
! deprecated war. War was horrible,
and was only to be entered upon when
honor and necessity demanded it. He
did not mean to say that the adoption
of the resolutions would, ex necessitate,
produce war, but he would say that it
was the entering wedge, that the house
was entering upon a course which
might lead to war, and that whether
rightfully or wrongfully, the house
ought not to do that under a suspension
of the rules, but only in accordance
with every rule of deliberation to safe
guard such action. (Some applause)
| Mr.. Cummings, dem, of New York,
advocated the resolutions. He said
| General Weyler was ella monster of
despotism, poisoning with his breath
the atmosphere of American civiliza
ton.
| Mr.. Mccall rep, of Massachusetts,
! opposed the resolutions. He yielded to
no one in sympathy for Cuban patriot
| ism, but the house should be governed
not by sympathy, but by judgment and
should not start out hastily to a path
which might lead into war. The facts
that there were many American citi-
zens in Cuba, that millions of Ameri-
can capital were invested, that the busi-
ness men of the country had been over
whelmed with burdens for the last three
years might count for nothing. But
! the committee on foreign affairs should
| give to the house, if it was going to
usurp executive functions. some definite
| information as to the effect the reso-
| lutions would have on the people of
the island. He understood the benefits
| to be conferred by belligerency were
| very vague and that under interna-
! tional law Spain would derive about
the same benefits as the Cubans.
Mr.. Moody, rep. of Massachusetts,
| also opposed the resolutions and ex
pressed concurrence with the views of
| Mr.. Boutelle
Mr.. Tucker, dem, of Virginia, of the
| committee on foreign affairs, closed
the debate in opposition to the resolu-
! tions. He said that the resolutions
meant that if Spain did not grant to
| the so-called patriots a government of
their own based upon the choice of the
people the United States was to give
it TO them by force of arms. The
southern people, Mr.. Tucker declared,