The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-21
DEBATE ON M0RGAN'S BILL
SENATOR LODGE MAKES AN IMP4
 STONED SPEECH ON TT.

Armenia in the Case of the Revolui n In
 Cuba-He Demands Positive Action and
 Hopes That It Will be Taken.
 Washington, Feb. 20.-At 2:1o p, m. the senate took up MT Morgan's Cuban concurrent resolution declaring that in the opinion of congress, condition of public war exists between the gov x ernment of Spain and the government proclaimed, and for some time main- tained by force of arms by the people of Cuba; and that the United States of America should maintain strict neu- Etrality between the contending powers, according to each the rights of bellig- erents in the ports and territory of the United States.
 MT. Cameron, rep, of Pennsylvania, offered a. substitute for the concurrent resolution in these words. That the president is hereby requested to inter- pose his friendly offices with the Span ish government for the recognition of the independence of Cuba
 MT. Call, dem., of Florida, addressed the senate.
 MT. Cameron, rep, of Pennsylvania, declared that the question was no long CT one of belligerency, but one of in- I1 IL. mcnt to act The policy which he advo- cated was the policy of the republican party and of the American people. He said that for such senators as wished to affirm more strongly their loyalty to the professions and transitions of the American people he would move the adoption of a joint resolution stating that the good offices of the United States are earnestly recommended to the favorable consideration of the gov ernment for the recognition of the in- dependence of Cuba.''
 He declared that if that resolution was passed and the Spanish govern ment paid no attention to it he would offer a resolution for the immediate recognition of the independence of Cuba.
 MT. Lodge. rep. of Massachusetts, a member of the committee on foreign relations, said that he had united with all the other members of that commit tee with a single exception-in reporting the resolution before the senate. He should be glad, however, if the senate should see f1t to go further in that di- rection, for he thought that the time had come when the United States should use it's good offices to bring to an end the deplorable condition that NOW existed in Cuba When the Spanish colonies rose in insurrection against the mother country Cuba was the ab- diel-"among the faithless faithful only he" Her reward was the title of Faithful Cuba" and that was the only reward she ever received At last oppression has brought revolution. The last revolution before the present had begun in 1868 and had lasted ten years.
 Spain had recognized the American conferedacy within three months after the attack on Sumter. So the senate had the right to look at the question from the point of view of interest of humanity and oe the interest of the Cubans. The Cubans guaranteed free ships and liberty of conscience, whereas the Spaniards had recently closed a Protestant church in Matanzas. Cuba commanded the gulf, lying athwart the line leading to the Nicaraguan canal Cuba in the hands of the United States or in the hands of it's own people would be bulwark to the United States and it's safety Cuba should never be suf- fered to pass from the hands of Spain into the hands of any other power, but that aspect of the subject might be dis missed. The question was whether the United States would permit the present condition of affairs to continue.
 The island was to-day lost to Spain. Spain might deluge the island in blood No more bloody code was ever put forth than General Weylers recent proclamation. Weyler's plan was one of desolation and extermination. He might have power to prolong the agony until the island was solitude and he might be able then to "call it peace" But that was the only way. Every man fighting in the insurgent ranks was fighting not only for independence, but also with pride on his head and with rope around his neck. He was fighting the battle of despair.
 MT. LOUSe uTlllSo u tlle CeiSS Ol All ," menians and declared that the utter ances of Lord Salisbury in their regard were pitiful He had used language never heard from an English premier in the times of Chatham Canning or Palmerston. But Salisbury was obey ing a stronger force than he was capa- ble of himself--the great power of mon- ey and of money-lenders. These money lenders did not care how many Armeni- ans were butchered. The Armenians g were not nominated in the bond !" There was England, with the greatest fleet of modern times, great flying squadron which she had mobilized with wonderful effect. But that squadron . had remained in the channel Yet Eng land was more responsible than any other power for the existence of Turkey and to-day western Europe and Amer ica were looking to Russia-so recently | emerged from barbarism, so half-Asi- 2 atic-to save those Armenians and put ] @ stop to that blot on civilization. f we have" MT. Lodge exclaimed SSs right here an Armenia at our doors 1 There is Cuba, there is useless blood { shed, brutality, cruelty, destruction of A life and property-all the errors that ,sals