Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-12-22
MILLS AND MORGAN'S REPORT.
They Concur in Previous Report and Add
Some Ideas OF Their Own

Senators Mills Of Texas and Morgan
Of Alabama. of the foreign relations
committee, join in making an addi
tional report on the Cameron resolu
ton. While they give the majority re-
port their unqualified approval, they
deem it we'll to present additional
reasons for the passage of the resolu-
ton. They quote the report Of the
committee on foreign relations of 1859.
when that committee was considering
the Senate bill making appropriations
to facilitate the acquisition of Cuba,
by negotiations and make this COM
ment:
That report covers a period of 50
years and sets forth the political con-
ditions and disastrous effects Of Span
ish rule during that time. They are
the same, in their leading characters
ties that existed at the beginning of
the insurrection set on foot by the
native population in 1868. in the out
break at Yarra followed by 10 years of
internecine warfare attended with
horrible butchery. The cause that
provoked the uprising of the native
CubanS are the same that are stated
in the report of the committee made
~ years previously in 1852
Senators Morgan and Mills say that
Spain is not the mother country of
Cuba. even in the sense of having
supplied that island with large part
Of the ancestors of her present popula
ton. She is a cruel stepmother, whose
introduction into the Cuban family has
been the immediate cause of robbery
of the stepchidren of their inheritance
and their cruel persecution to keep
down revolt.
After quoting a speech made in the
Senate in 1859. by Hon. Judah F. Ben
iamin. which they considered a more
complete statement of the conditions
If the people of Cuba and the methods
Of the Spanish government in that
island, then. than stated in the report
OF the committee in 1889. they say that
the relations of Spain and the United
States were not then strained by dis
turbances of actual insurrection in
cuba, as afterwards from 1868 to 1875
and have been almost ever since and
are now, by the excessive and nhuman
abuses of power in Cuba to which no
limit can be anticipated. The Presi
dent recognizes the fact that the pres
VII Ndi Is IoI independence on tue
part of the Cubans and not for the
gratifying of personal ambition or
alone for the redress of personal or
political grievances.
Hon. Estrada Palma. the report con-
tinues, was duly accredited diplo-
matte delegate plenipotentiary to the
United States under appointment by
the constitutional assembly of the re-
public of Cuba. He has addressed a
note to the secretary of state, accom-
panied by a statement of facts. in which
the case of Cuba is set forth officially.
In the paper that accompanied this
note the delegates stated the causes
and PROCESS of the revolution in Cuba
and showed that it had reached a stage
in which the issue between the con-
tending parties lis independence of ex-
termination.
The recent message of the President
is clear on the point that he has been
forced to the same conclusion. The let
ter of the Cuban delegates addressed to
our secretary of state is in it's nature
a declaration of the independence of
Cuba. stating the grounds of the Cuban
peoples united action. That declara-
tion is in keeping with the historical
narrative given by Mr.. Benjamin in
his speech. with the report of the COM
mittee on foreign relations in 1853. with
the messages of Presidents Grant and
Hayes, and the letters of Mr.. Sickles
and Mr.. Gushing as ministers to Spain
and Mr.. Fish and Mr.. Evarts as secre
taries of state.
All these papers are uniform in the
statements o. the wrongs and griev-