Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-22
MORGAN ISSUES CUBAN REPORT.
Alabama senator supplements Sem
IL.r IN. AiL.n

Ainbhmn senator supplements sem
ator Cnmcron's Views.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.--A report pre-
senting additional views on the Cuban ques-
tion was presented to the senate today by
Senator Morgan of Alabama in behalf of
himself and Senator Mills. 1t endorses Sen
ator Camerons views and endorses the ac-
tion of the committee on foreign relations
in 1859 on the bill to facilitate the acquisi-
ton OF the island OF Cuba The report re-
views the alleged misgovernment Of Cuba
and messages by former presidents on the
subject and then refers to President Cleve-
lands attitude, whose message it afflrms is
in corroboration of all former testimony
on the subject, The president, ii continues,
has laid the question before congress with
out any recommendation. leaving to con-
gress the duty of making provision for the
security and rights of United States citi-
zens in Cuba and enforcing the right Of in
demnity in behalf OF legal successors of
those who have been killed there 1t says
He has intimated that delay is the wisest
policy but he has refraned from saying
that delay is required by our national honor
or by the interests of humanity"
The report takes exception to the charac-
terlzation of Spain as the mother country
of Cuba" in a former report, but contends
that. on the contrary, she is only cruel
stepmother, whose introduction into the
of the robbery of the stepchildren Of their
inheritance and their cruel persecution to
keep down revolt"
He characterizes the present conflict as "a
war of determination" and says no limit can
be anticipated in Spains Excessive and in
human abuses of power" Continuing, the
senator argues that the president recognizes
that the present war is for independence AMI
not for the qualification Of personal ambi-
ton. He says senor Estrada Palma, the ac-
credited representative of Cuba TO the United
States, appears to have been informally re-
ceived foi' the purpose of presenting Cuba 8
claims to our government, and on December
T. 1895 he sent an official note to the State
department, explaining his mission, assert
ing that the Issue was that of "the independ-
ence or the determination of the Cubans, -
and giving the reasons upon which the
Cubans based their revolution. Concluding,
Senator Morgan says:
The message of Mr. Cleveland. who has no
aversion 10 Spanish rule in Cuba, confirms
In all important statements the truth of the
charges made by Mr.. Palma. The only differ
ence in the situation in Cuba, as it is de-
scribed In the senate report of 1895, and as
described In the presidents message in 1896
is that as time progressed, the wrongs of
Cuba have been aggravated and the means
of repression employed by Spain have grown
into war against humanity, a war OF ami
hilation of property and the determination CT
the native population.
IF the firm purposes OF our predecessors
to put an end to this condition of affairs in
Cuba In the comparatively mild form of
tyranny that existed fifty years ago, has de-
generated into doubts and misgivings as to
our duty to our own people and the demands
Of Christian civilization. the responsibility
Tor this lapse from the true spirit of liberty
and our love of homo rule and liberty rests
where it justly belongs and not upon the
people through Indifference to their will on
the part of the representatives in congress-