Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-16
Az TO CuBA.
Prssident Grant ChasE-d uis Views
ON the Question Of Recognition.

= Nhs ENuAANN f1WNIihhu hNAfaANa
that there was a COZ Il OF Of opinign over
Cuban at Ira between the PrssidenI
and bis secretary Of slate. The speak
er OF the assembly, Hamilton Flsb,
son Of tue late secretary, 10 In posses
siou " Information upon this subject
contaiued In the diaries kept by his
father that Il OF great Importance In
the controversy. On the authority OF
thtso diaries Il Ia shown that President
Grant had at one Il me, under the clf-
Gums ances OF peuding neg tiauon at
Madrid, been inclined 10 fooJgHiEs tue
ueliigefoucy Of Cuba, but on June 10,
1870, the opinion Of the President al d
tns Cabinet was unanimous that there
were no facts 10 justly the declaration
VI delinquency, aud that the satisiao.
ton OF the President with the Cuban
policy OF his naturalization aud It's
en cts upon the country aud the Re-
publican party found expression a few
weeks lalef In thanks 10 tue secretary
OF state Tor whatever share II may have
been due 10 mis- wisdom anu iudXm mt
Dur ng his eight years service IN
the ,ta.o depsitn ent Mi. Flsh kept,
chiefly as n reference record for hi.
own eyes, n diary In his own hand
writing.
On Juno 18th there lie this entry:
"Stsy ct home and prepare message
on the Cuban belligerency question, u
DO submitted for the Pfegi tents c1u.
siderStion, Ia case he agreed 10 tend
one"
or the discussion in the cabinet on
the 10 b.. tho day on which the special
message was seat 10 Congress, tho
diary says;
at was generally admitted that n
war Ia TO be fesoftei 10. II would be by
direct declaration, and not by embAi.
rasainR SIain by a declaration OF btlIig.
erency; agreed unanimously that no
condition OF facts exists to Justify
belligerency. Finally, tho President
amends his sentences by referring Ia
general terms 10 seiEuree on the nigh
seas, embArgoes OF property aud per.
soual outrage. Robson adds the con.
GLIDING sentences, claiming the que.
ton OF belligerency IL distinct from
those questions OF wrong which are
being pressed for Naturalization and
n not satisfied they will bs made the
subject OF q future message. And thus
IL 10 agreed that tho message shall lie
sent In"
Speaker Fish said that the original
draft Of the message, with its many
erasures and interlineationp, Ia all In
Mr.. Fish'e own hand. The message
sent to Congress aad printed as Eek.
Doc. No. 90 10 verbatim A. In that draft
down to the following paragraph, near
tho END:
"rhere ia no do tacto government In
the leland Of Cubh sufficient TO exc.
cute law aud maintain Just relations
with other nations. Spain has not bet n
able 10 suypttts the oppo, lion TO
Spanish fule In the island, nor 10 award
speedy justice 10 other natl ne, or citi.
zens Of other ration,, whom their rig hts
nave been Invaded"
Tbose sentences were written md
inserted by the President; the next two
were written In the cabinet on the
Presidents suggestion ad ed by the
secretary OF state; the last and con-
GLIDING three were written ana ad 4 Cd
In the cabinet by the secretary Of the
navy.
Senator Cameron, In tho recent mi
norlty report OF the Senate committee
on foreign efiairp, alluded 10 n rumor
OF belligerouoy proclamation having
been signed by President Grant. 1t ia
true that In the summer Of 1869, and
while the . rofier OF mediation suggest
I'd to the President by Mr.. Paul 3.
Forbes NJ coming from Gen. Prim was
10 ding at Madrid, the state DEPART
ment, on the request OF the President,
prepared q draft OF proclamation OF
helligerency. some time after the
President signed II be went on Jour
icy TO the West, anu on tho way wrote
the following letIeH
KANE, Pa, August IA. ls99.-Hon.
Hamilton Fish, secretary Of state
My Oar Sir On rehsullon / think
II advisable to complete the neu.
lrality proclamation which L sigued
before leaving Washington, anu 20
issue II II General SicSlcs has moi
received nm entirely satisfactory 70.
Ely to his proposition 10 mediate be.
wsen spain aud the CubAuS; IN fac,
l am not clearly satisfied that we
would not be justified Ia intimstlng
~ spain that We would look with some
alarm upon her proposition to send 90.
900 more troops 10 Cuba to put down,
10 Americans believe, tue right Of self.
government on this continent Not
prosecute As gOfous n war as she
pleased upon her own soil, observing
the rules OF civilized warfare. but that
tho rights OF our oltzens have been 90
wantoniy Invaded by Spanish troops or
volunteers that such a course would
arouse the sympatniss OF our citizens 10
avor Of the Cubans to such n degree as
to require all our vigilance 70 prevent
them from giving matefial aid. The
question migut we'll be asked whe nor
spain would not be weaker with 10000
more troops Ia Cuba; AMI also, by 10,
whether VIZ would DO Justified ny our
own people to let them do 30 without
al least putting tho Cubans upon the
same footing with their adyersaries
frat. Except the issuii X OF the proolh-
nation, do not give this NJ instruc-
ton, hut ne something to think OF
whether II II not sound. IL deemed 90,
the policy OF acting upon II Will be dis.
russed Afterwards. will be- In New
York Guy on Thursday next, 90 my
wuy to Newport; will Oe at MIR. Cor.
bln's q luw houfs before sailing. fouIs
lluly. u. b. GRANT.