The herald., 1896-12-22


American and Cuban flags, and there
We're pictures of Washington Lincoln
Maceo and Gomez.
Col. Ethan Allen, president of the
Cuban league called the meeting to or
der and stated it's objects Several times
during Col. Aliens speech when Presi-
dent Clevelands name was mentioned
it was bitterly hissed. There were wild
outbreaks when Maceos name was men,
toned.
A series of resolutions was read and
adopted, from which the following are
extracts:
"The Cuban republic is entitled to re-
ceive forthwith from this nation an Of
ficial recognition of its independence.
Such action by these United States
would not only be in accordance with in
ternational law and also in harmony
with the rule heretofore aplied to other
Ameican states, but would be the prac-
teal enforcement of that policy ap-
plauded and defended by us all, which
was enunciated by President Monroe
that any attempt on the part of Euro
pean powers to enforce their system
| over any portion of this hemisphere,
against the will of its people, would be
considered by the United States as
| dangerous to their peace and liberty.
In our judgment he mistakes the i'm
pulse which sway the American people
| whe nhe says, They view with wonder
| and admiration the cheerful resolution
with which vast bodies of men are sent
| by SHpain across thousands of miles
| of ocean that the costly gem of the An
| titles may still hold its place III the
! SHpanish crown
| ION the contrary, the American peo-
| pie view with horror this enemy CT
! demons, whose purpose Is to continue
the robbery and slaughter of unoffend-
ing subjects. This voluntary eulogy
| al f,er 9 m
| every page of her history for the past
| four hundred years, could have been
| said with equal audacity of England
| a century ago, when George Ill. mar
| shalled his Hessians upon our soil ana
| tapped at every wigwam for its toma-
| hawk to secure the reduction of the
| colonies
| I'VE Indignantly repudiate the idea
| that our heartless treatment of the Gu
| ban patriots should be continued be-
| cause otherwise, difficulties are appre-
| hended with SPAIN
| General Bradley r. Johnson of Nir-
| ginia said he believed that ninety per
cent of the people of the United States
| We're in favor of Cuban independence,
| and that fully seventy-five per cent IA
| vored this government helping the in
| surgents to end the struggle. He de-
| clared the Cubans have now as good a
| government as did the colonies in the
| days of Washington, and that it is the
| duty of the United States TO recognize
! it right away.
| Governor Morton. Rev. Heber New
| ton. Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., and Rev.
| Robert S. Macarthur sent spirited let
| ters.
| DR.. A. NJ. Fernandez Ybarra, secre-
| tary of the meeting, announced that w.
| +. ID. Stokes had subscribed $1,000 to the
| fund.- lady $l00 and a gentleman $500
| and read a cablegram from the junl's
agent in Paris, saying that the total
! collection there amounted to $l0000 600
Thousands of people stood outside the
| hall while the speeches went II inside.
| A printed appeal by the junta for funds
| was distributed at the meeting, in which
| it was declared that the junta has proven
time and time again it's ability to land
upon Cuba's shores all the supplies that
! its means could purchase.
IT ISN'T BUSINESS
LONDON, Dec. 21.-The Pail mall Ga
Zette this afternoon, referring to the ut
terances of Premier Del Castillo, says:
''Senor Canovas del Castillo is magnifi-
cent but it is not business. and he must
change his resolutely immobile attitude
for resolute action if he wishes to avail
himself of the few months grace which
remain to him..
| The st. James Gazette remarks: pres
| ident Cleveland and Secret ary Olney
seem determined to prove that congress
| is an institution of very limited power"
EXPERT OPINION
| NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 21.-Pro-
| fessor Theodore S. Woolsey, who holds
| the chair of international law at Yale
| commenting upon the action of the COM
mittee on foreign relations in the senate
| with reference to Cuban independence,
| said recognition of belligerency ought to
| have preceded recognition of independ-
| ence and that in recognizing the inde-
| pendence of Cuba the committee had as
| sumed state of fact which did not eX-
| ist.
In rofessor Woolsey's opinion there
might have been two motives for the
| committees course, which We're sympa-
| thy for the Cubans or hostility toward
| Spain. If the committee acted as it I'D
| out of sympathy for Cuba, then it ought
| to have based its proceedings upon a
| plea of humanity, but if it allowed hos
| tility to Spain to prompt it in its course
| then that act constituted a justification
| Tor war on Spans part if that country
| chose to interpret it as such.
ORDERS TO WEYLER.
| CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 21-The Com
mercial-Tribune special from Key West
| says: Havana adVices todnight are that
| common rumor in that city states that
! Gen. Weyler had been commanded from
Maurld TO take the held again, supposed
| ly to attempt to stop Gen Gomez in his
march through Matanzas and Santa
Cara provinces, where Gomez is over
| running the country and keeping the
| Spanish garrisons uncomfortable.
| Near Garcia and Caberos, an engage
| ment between about 200 Cuban insure-
| ents and 300 Spanish guerrillas under
| Captain Murielli is reported The Gu
bans ambushed the guerilla and put fifty
of them to the machete. Mureilli was
among the killed. The Cuban loss was
| over thirty.
Havana is reported in an exceedingly
filthy condition, breeding smallpox and
yellow fever in the ranks of the newly
arrived recruits
SANGUILLY'S TRIAL.
| HAVANA, Dec. 21.-The re-trial of the
case of Julio Sanguilly, sent down on an
appeal of the supreme court at Madrid
| on a charge of treasan and conspiracy.
began at l o'clock today Sanguilly ar
rived in court escorted by eight gen
'darmes and looking healthy and in good
| spirits. The trial opened with the readi-
| ing, by Chief Clerk Oddardo of the pros
| ecutor's petition that the defendant
should be sentenced to Imprisonment for
| life and pay half the expense of the trial
Public Prosecutor Enjula then order
| ed the evidence for the prosecution, con-
sisting of letters signed by General Jose
Azicugo, offering the defendant a nom
nation as a colonel in the rebel army,
also verbatim statement of the wit