The record-union., 1896-03-03

formed of the latest news from Spain,
Senator Call of Florida, who is the orig
inal Cuban champion, for he represents
State which has many naturalized cit
izens from Cuba, and since his entrance
in the Senate seventeen years ago he
has introduced resolutions looking to-
ward the independence of the island,
said:
Il am an extremist, as you very well
know. My advice would be to assemble
fleet and army at once and wipe Spain
from the map. The disturbance of a
mob amounts to little except to show
what the Spanish people are.
1T was folly for the Senate to pass a
concurrent resolution asking the Presi-
dent to institute diplomatic correspond
ence with Spain looking to the inde-
pendence of Cuba. General Grant tried
that, and what was Spain's answer
Geo students were executed in cold
blood. That was the answer then and it
will be the answer now. 1t is nonsense
trifiing with such a nation of butchers
I'VE can put 100, 900 men in Cuba on
short notice, and we should not hesitate
to do So Cuba is the garden of Amer
ica, and it should be the home of a civil
lied community under Christian laws
The Senate should have passed a joint
resolution recognizing the patriots as
belligerents, and should have compelled
/ the President to take notice of it, We
are the representatives of the people,
and he is our servant. It is idle to beg
of Spain for humanity toward Cuba
What General Grant with his mill
tary prestige could not accomplish Gro
yer Cleveland cannot do. The mob iii
Spain is nothing. The butchery in Cuba
| is everything, and this time Cuba will
be free. There Is no power on earth to
stop it."
1T looks as though Spain wanted US
20 take Cuba" remarked Senator Gull
lom, ''and while no one would deprecate
ar more than myself, the time has ar
rived for us to assert in the most con-
vincing manner that we don't propose
to be trified with by any foreign Gov
ernment. Our flag should not be low
cred one inch because of the feeling
against us by the Speniards, but a Wig
orouS policy should be enforced with a
view to teaching salutary lesson to
those disposed to give US trouble. While
we don't want to pose i'll the attitude of
nation with a chip continually on it's
shoulder, the time has arrived for US to
assert ourselves in an unmistakable
manner"
Senator Sherman, the Chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, after carefully reading the dispatch
said:
'Of course the Spanish people felt
hurt at the passage of the resolution by
the Senate, and l expected some such
outbreak. 1t does not, however, change
my opinion Of the wisdom of the action
by the Senate. I don't think the incl
dent will lead TO any trouble between
the two Governments
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky. who
made speech in the Senate favoring
Cuban independence, said:
The outrage seems to be the act of an
irresponsible mob. Trouble may come
out of it, but there is no cause for such
a result. The mob spirit seems to be
dominating two or three towns, but
there is nothing to indicate it has the
approval of the Government"
LOOKING FOR FILIBUSTERS.
WASHINGTON, March 2. The
Treasury Department to-day sent in
structions to the commanders of reve-
nue. cutters in Florida waters. direct
ing them to use every effort to infsw
cept an alleged f1libustering expedition
bound for Cuba, which the Spanish
authorities have reported to the State
Department as about to leave Alligator
Key, between Key West and Tampa.
The report says that two schooners.
one from Tampa, bearing Collazo and
eighty men, and the other from a point
north of Tampa, laden with arms and
ammunition, left port last night for AL
lgator Key, where they are to meet the
steamer Three Friends, recently cleared
from Jacksonville AT the rendezvous the
men and arms are to be transferred to
the steamer, which will at once sail for
the northeast coast of Cuba.
Under the law it will not be possible
for the Treasury officials to seize either
of the schooners as long as they keep
apart, but if they join the steamer in
American waters. as the report says,
they will be taken.
Collazo, who is at the head of the ex-
pedition, was a commander in the ten
years war. Previously he had been
partly educated at the Royal Military
Academy in Spain, but failed to gradu-
take this company Of about eighty men
to Cuba in the past year, and he has
been caught in every case, the last
time at Cape Sable, where the revenue
cutter Winona destroyed the Camp
which his company had been. occupying
eight weeks waiting for a chance to
sail All his men were arrested last
summer for attempting to go to Cuba.
but were released.
PEOPLE FLEEING IN TERROR.
HAVANA, Feb. % (yia Tampa. Fla.
March 2.)-Inhabitants or Punta Braya.
Guatao and other towns west of Mari
ano and under the jurisdiction of the
volunteers and soldiers stationed at the
latter place are fleeing to Havana in
terror. They say they have less fear of
the insurgents than of the troops.
Twenty-Five women from Guatao, wives
and mothers of the men slain there on
the 22d, or made prisoners at that time.
are in this city. They called at the pal
ace to see General Weyler and beg for
the freedom of the men now in Moro
Castle, as well as to tell of the outrages
committed by Captain Calve and the
men sent out by the Marquis de Ger
vera.
Their visit to the palace was on the
same day that the Captain-General re-
ceived a delegation of women who were
attired in gay costumes and wore the
yellow and red colors of Spain on their
breasts. They had been throwing flow
ers, bon bons and love pigeons to the
newly arrived troops. and shouting
viva Espana" until their voices were
gone. General Weyler received them
and thanked them for their demonstra-