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efaI Weyler visiting death on those even
suspected OF sympathy with the insurg-
ents was brutal and bloody edict. Mr..
cameron followed in support of the
substitute he had offered.
For my part he said at regard the
question of bellgerency as a false issue,
mistake, into which the friends of Cuba
should not fall. 1 object to it in the first
Grant to reject it in 1875, because 1t is Of
Ienslve to Spain and delusive to Cuba. The
contest is no longer one of beligereney, but
one of independence. Then, in the second
place | object to it because 1t comedies to
| Spain the belligerent right Of searching our
| ships on the high seas and Selling them
whenever they have anything on board which
! can be considered contraband of war. l object
to 1t in the third place because 1t imposes
beii1gerent duties as well as belligerent rights
! and relieves Spain of all further responsible
| lty Tor the destruction of American property
in Cuba by transferring that responsibility
to the insurgents. 1 wish the government
70 act l want to see the chronic misery OF
| Cuba ended"
Mr.. Cameron said in conclusion that
| II this resolution was adopted and Spain
paid no attention to it, he would move
| the immediate recognition of Cuba.
MR.. LODGE SPOKE VIGOROUSLY.
as to the need Of action. He would,
he said, go further than the resolution
of the committee. While other Span
ish dependencies had broken away from
Spain, Cuba had remained faithful,
earning the title Of faithful Cuba
And yet oppression, dishonesty and
robbery had been visited on the island
The time had come, declared Mr. Lodge
when it was the duty Of the United
states to act firmly and fully. The past
relations between this country and
| Spain offered no ties Of gratitude or
! blood to check our action. The SEN
ator reviewed the friendship of Spain
toward the United States. England
was the first to thrust her hand into
our bloody wound at the outbreak Of
the civil war, France was the next and
| Spain followed. Within three months
Of the firing OF Sumter, Spain had rec
ogEized the confederacy. Mr.. Lodge
spoke of the suppression of a free press
and free church in Cuba. A free
Cuba would mean the development of
that splendid island, one of the richest
spots on the face Of the earth But
there was political, rather than a ma
terial interest which bade us act. Cuba
lay athwart the route to the Nicaragua
canal She was the sentinel of the gulf
the great bulwark of the American
| coast "The island is today lost to
Spain,' said Mr.. Lodge; they may
continue to deluge the island with blood
but the island is lost to them
WEYLER'S BLOODY DEGREES.
The senator analysed the "bloody
uSClCeo lSSueu ny 1en. W. eyer. plan
OF "desolation and determination that
he may prolong the agony until the
island is a solitude. And yet We six
hours away, stand idly by AS a mat
ter Of humanity, the senator appealed
| for action. Our words Of sympathy
! for Armenia were mere words Those
fearful atrocities had proceeded while
all Europe had not stirred The pro-
tests Of Lord Salisbury were pitiful.
The money power and the money lend
er was the real power of Europe, and
this vast power cared nothing for the
slaughter of Armenians. eff that war
| goes on with that bloody commander
in charge, the responsibility is on our
shoulders. We cannot avoid it,
There was a burst of applause from
the galleries as Mr.. Lodge concluded,
which the presiding officer stopped by
rapping for order.
Mr.. Morgan (who reported the reso-
lutions) followed: He said the posi-
! bilities of war between the United
States and Spain should in no way en-
barrass the consideration Of the sub
| Ject and shaping of a proper course
! The committee on submitting this res
! olution was not moved by retaliation
or by any consideration of past rela-
| tons between the countries. 1t was
| based solely on the conditions and re-
| quirements of today. Mr.. Morgan then
| took up the legal questions involved
! explaining the duties and obligations
Of recognizing belligerency. When
armies are formed and men leave their
| places Of business and become soldiers
! then the civilized world recognizes this
| transformation as creating a state Of
| belligerency. Under existing circum-
| stances, those participating in the up
| rising were not recognized by Spain as
| soldiers,
| BUT AS FELONS
rising against their government to be
treated with the ignominy Of felons-
they and their children. And vet, said
| Mr.. Morgan, while war is public and
| beyond the possibility of question OF
| denial, Spain refuses to recognize the
war. She fills Moro Castle" eXiles
men to penal colonies in Africa She
infiicts penalties unwarranted even If
war did not exist. And, with war pub
lie and notorious, it became the duty
of the United States and all other
countries to demand the recognition of
Cubans as soldiers, not as felons. The
! United States should be the first to
step to the front and say to Spain:
You have long enough lacerated those
people,
Mr.. Morgan said the Cuban repub-
lie already existed 1t might yet be
in embryo-a Moses in the bullrushes
| yet In time the world would recog-
| ME II as republic. II the 1SlanQ
of Cuba had been as close to Great
Britain as to the United States, Cuba
would have been absorbed a century
ago. He said he approached this uues-
ton reluctantly, but that the commit
tee on foreign relations had found it.
self confronted by large mass Of pc
| titions and had felt it to be incum-
! bent upon it to take some action. It
was necessary to either report ad-
versely or favorably and he would saw
here what he had said in the com
mittee, that he contemplated war at
the end of whatever action the United
States might take, not that Spain
would be justified in resenting any in
reference, but because of the feeling
entertained by Spain toward this coun
try. He also said that he believed
that Spain would be under obligations
provoke hostilities. The letters which
Spain had fastened upon the limbs of
Cuba in the beginning were rotting
away, and if this revolution does not
| free Cuba, the next or the next will.
Spain knows and feels this and would
rather lose Cuba, while inconfiict- with
the United States, than to Iose-it in
any other way. Spain, he contended,
had no legitimate excuse to hold Cuba
after Mexico, Venezuela and the Cen
| trail American countries had achieved
their independence, and Cuba would
have achieved her independence.
Mr.. Morgan did not conclude his
speech, saying he would go on another
| day, as there were many points con-
nected with the question which he
length than he could do today.
Chandler