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ment. He has not been slow to refer to
the position of Senator Morgan as
clearly Inconsistent one, and referring
to-day to the answer made by Morgan
in the Senate yesterday to question by
Senator Hill that it was prepoSterOuS to
question the right of Congress to rec>
ognize the independence of Cuba, said
Mr. Morgan took an almost entirely
different view of the matter last Feb
ruary, when the concurrent resolution
expressing the sympathy or Congress
for the insurgents, and urging the PreS-
ident to use his good offices with Spain
to bring about termination OF the
struggle on the island, was in discus
sion in the Senate. His remarks on that
occasion have direct bearing upon
the issue raised by the Secretary OF
State that the power of recognizing the
independence of a new Government IS
exclusively in the President, regard
less of the wishes of Congress in the
matter According to Secretary OIL
ney, the Senator from Alabama at that
time conceded with the position now as
sumed by the Executive.
OLNEY WRONG.
TERRE HAUTE 0nd.), Dec. 22.-Ex-
Secretary of the Navy Thompson, in an
interview to-day says Secretary Olney
is wrong when he asserts that the Pres
ident still has the power to act dlplo-
matically or otherwise as he pleases
after the passage by Congress over his
veto a resolution concerning Cuba. EX-
Secretary Thompson says, however,
hot fo,, 1,n loo. G n
Independent Government in Cuba which
this Government can recognize. He
hopes the Cubans will establish a Gov
ernment and be free.
CAMERON CUBAN RESOLUTION
DENOUNCED.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.-The st. Louis
Cotton Exchange denounced the Cam
eron Cuban resolution by adopting the
following:
BE it resolved by the members Of the
Cotton Exchange of the city of st.
Louis that We enter our protest against
said action, believing it is instrumental
in lowering the values Of all farm prod
ucts, and most of all of our greatest
export product, cotton, to the benefit Of
foreign consumers and the detriment
and injury of the American cotton pro-
ducers.
We feel that it is unnecessary for us
to affirm our loyalty to this nation, but
in case of necessity We pledge our
unanimous support to maintain the
honor and integrity of the Republic.
I'VE request that copies of this resO-
luton be sent to our Senators and Rep
resentatves in Congress from the State
of Missouri"
MESSAGE DISCUSSED.
LONDON, Dec. 22-A dispatch to the
Central News from Madrid says that
a meeting of the Cabinet which was
held to-day discussed the Cuban sec
tion of President Cleveland's MESA ge
to Congress, an official copy of the
message having been received by Prime
Minister Castillo a short time ago. The
matter was considered in all it's aspects,
and it was finally agreed that as the
references to Cuba in the message af-
fected the Cortes they must be read
before that body. The COrteS is not
in session now, and unless an extraor-
dirary session called, it will not meet
for some weeks. The Cabinet arrived
dl no U6CISlOll dS 10 Wn6H IHc IUeSSd SP
should be read.
MADRID, Dec. 22.-The Cabinet at
its meeting to-day decided to make no
diplomatic reply to President Cleve-
lands message.
CUBANS HAVE A GOVERNMENT.
PARIS, Dec. 22.-The "Gil Bias" pub
fishes a report Of an interview with
Seror BetanCer the representative Of
the Cuban insurgents in Paris, in which
he declares that the assertions that the
revolutionists in Cuba have no Govern
ment are false. The Cubans, he says,
have a Government in the form of a
Jurta, whose members are acting to-
gether under the assent of the active
participants in the rebellion and a ma
jority of the inhabitants of the island.
The sympathy Of the American people
with the Cubans, Senor Betancer says
is enthusiastically unselfish and springs
from a feeling of compassion from
Spanish tyranny.