The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-05
ARE NOT SATISFIED
WITH Mr.. CALHOUN
A Doubt Has Been Cast Upon the
Genuineness Of His In
vestigations,
FRIENDS OF CUBA ARE DOUBTFUL
Senator Mills Criticises the Acts OF
III Commissioners Especially
His Accepting Extreme
Spanish Hospitality.

Washington, May 26.--It is generally
conceded by public men in Washington
that the President will take no action
concerning Cuba until Commissioner
Calhoun returns and makes report in
person. Advices from Havana Indicate
that Calhoun is meeting with many diff
fculties in his Investigation Of the Ruiz
case, and it is minated that he will
not remain in Cuba to complete q hear
ing Of witnesses that now gives promise
of being drawn out through the entire
summer.
Mr.. Calhoun'S method of investigation
80 far as it is made known in Cuban
dispatches. has not made a good impress
sion pon the friends of Cub at the
capital. n senator stated to the
correspondent that it was his
belief that Calhoun had formed a judg-
ment before he left Washington and was
virtually under instructions to report
a certain finding. This senator added
that the files of the state department
contained ample data for the admins
tration to act upon in reports made by
Consul General Lee and other diplo-
matte officials and Calhoun's work was
s%upertluous.
But another objection to Calhoun's
methods was his acceptance of extreme
Spanish Inequalities upon his arrival
in the island. Upon this point Senator
Mills of Texas said this evening to you
correspondent:
M Calhoun went to Cub on a most
serious matter. His mission was to in
Vestisate a crime--a most brutal crime,
so far as our information indicated. The
first we heard of this special commits
sioner after he reached Havana was his
attending a Spanish banquet and deliv-
ering an effusive address, compliment
ing the Spaniards. and telling them
what a fine people they are and of Il
great admiration and friendliness for
them. ! do not know Mr.. Calhoun, but
that sort of proceeding implies that he
does not intend to make such an inves-
legation in the Ruiz case as would sat
isfy American sense of justice.
What would be thought of a court
commissioner in a civil case who would
begin his work by receiving favors from
an interested party? Calhoun should
lot have accepted the banquet. 1t was
given for Il sinister purpose. He should
have politely declined n have let the
Spaniards understand that he was in
Cuba charged with a grave mission
from his government. He should have
raid: My business here is to investigate
u crime, charged to have been commit
ted pom one of my countrymen by you
and your government. / cannot accept
your favors.' If Calhoun's report in the
Ruiz case should be in favor of the
Spanish contention, his conduct in at
tending Spanish %banquets can only inn
pair the value of his work. In any event
Il could do no good and is plainly i'm
proper n in bad taste"
The senator doe not believe that any
action will be taken by this administra-
lion towards securing Independence for
Cuba. The Texas senator added:
The great central advantage to the
Cubans which would Immediately fol-
low IL neutrality proclamation would
be their right to put armed vessels on
the high seas, flying the Cuban flag.
Until Cuba is a recognized power she
cannot equip and sail a fleet under the
Cuban flag without her vessels being
pirates in the yes of the world. AS a
b%elligerent nation her vessels could
come to our ports for supplies and arms
with the freedom Spanish boats o
enjoy. With that privilege it woul not
be q month before the Cuban fleet could
cut off Spanish supplies from Cuba and
the Spanish army would have to leave
or starve. That army has not enough
stores in Cuba to exist for ten days. A
very important reason why We oul
see that Cuba is we'll governed Is a duty
that follows our policy towards that
island for nearly a century. The United
States has. through every administra-
ton of this government, maintained
that Spain alone could hold the Island
of Cuba, and that we would not submit
to it's occupation by any other power.
AS against all other governments we
would intervene. And the moral re-
s~ponSib!lity is upon us, having main
tanned that policy, to give good govern
ment to Cuba. even at expense and in
convenience to ourselves. We have no
right to insist that no other nation shall
get a hold on Cuba and yet be indiffer-
ent to the persecution n brutality
perpetrated veal after year upon the
people of that island"