The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-24
MILLS CLEAN DAFT.
The Texas Senator Wants the
United States to Seize
Cuba.

WASHINGTON, March "a, 1s96-Mr.
Hoar tRep.. Mass.) offered resolution in
the Senate today, which was agreed to,
requesting the President to transmit to
the Senate copies Of all dispatches, notes
and kilograms in the Department Of State.
from November, 1870, until the Paciffcation
OF Cuba in 1878. which relate to mediation
or intervention by the United States in
the afraIrs of that island-together with
a. an corr spondence with foreign govern
meAIs relating 10 the same topic.
The Joint resolution introduced yester-
day by Mr.. Mills (Dem., Texas looking
e the seizure Of the Island of Cuba BY
the United States in case the Spanish
Government shall refuse TO grant self
government to the Cubans, was taken up
ana Mr. Mills addressed the Senate in
advocacy OF 1t. He would have voted he
SAID, for all the resolutions offered on
the subject of Cuba, because they were
steps, although short steps, in the line
ssof march which it was the duty of the
people OF the United States to take. The
Island of Cuba did not, Mr.. Mills de-
elared stand in the same relation to the
Poland, Ireland or Armenia did. If it did
then the craftsmanship of the United
States had been at fault for 100 years.
The fathers had for century asserted
and maintained that the people Of the
United States had rights in Cuba-had
rights in every foot of soil in the West
not only to assert but to maintain by the
whole power of the army and navy of
the Republic.
The United States never asserted that
It had any rights in Ireland, Hungary,
Poland or elsewhere in Europe; but it
had asserted its right in every solitary
acre of land on the western hemisphere.
1t had there the highest right-the right
of self preservation. The Monroe Doc
trile. he declared was as old as humanity;
and God Almighty was it's author For
When he made man man he placed in him
the right to preserve his life and liberty.
Mr.. Mills reviewed on this point the de-
ciafatlons OF President Jefferson in rela-
ton to the Louisiana purchase; when
the American minister to France was
instructed to notify Napoleon that if he
would not sell that territory to the United
States the United States would ally itself
TO Great Britain and sweep the French
neet of the ocean, in order to maintain
the right of the United States to the
mouth of the Mississippi RiverAnot-
title to it,
Mr., Mills also referred to the forced
WlthqraWai OF French troops from Mexico
on the ground that the planting of a
monarchy at the doors Of the United
States imperilled the existence of free
government within the American juris-
the Gulf of Mexico. but was the fortress
Of America. The fathers of the Republic
"a PAD ,,s said, for hundred years, to Cuba,
TO England, to France, to all the earth,
you shall not touch one solitary acre
Of ..t1 this land with your soyereignty;'.'
that we viii re resist w With i al fhe a9nnVea poWe
Of this Government the transfer of the
Island Of Cuba to any European power
Jefferson. said it. Gallatin said it. John
Quincy Adams said it. Henry Clay said
It. Martin Van Buren said it. James
Buchanan said it. William E. Marcy
said it. 1t has been the uneha1lenged
American doctrine that the Island of
Cuba shall remain with Spain unless it
come to us; that Spain shall hold it in
trust; that we shall resist it's transfer
by the whole power of the army and
navy; and there we have held it for a
hundred years.
Z The message of the Senate announcing
ence report upon at. the s Cuban resolutions i'Ee
and asking for further conference. was
called up by Mr.. Hit Rep., Ill) in the
House and the request was agreed to-