Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-18
BRADLEY JOHNSON on CUBA.
Presidents Message beginning of
Interference-Lee-D

WASHINGTON. ID. c., May n.-(Spe-
cial)-To-days session OF the Senate
was an exceedingly interesting one, the
features that viii interest Virginians
being the reference In the Presidents
cuban message to the reports of Gene
raj Lee and the eloquent appeal of
senator Daniel in behalf of the struggling
Cubans.
General Bradley T. Johnson, who Is an
ardent Cuban sympathizer. and who IS
here to-day, said tonight: ''rhe news
of to-day's message OF the President,
and the prompt action Of the Senate on
it will come like voice from Heaven
TO the camp of Gomez, Will spread and
resound all over Cuba, from her noun
tains. over her plains, across her great
rivers. and wake the Cubans like the
horn OF Roland. 1t will be worth twice
ten thousand men to the patriots, just as
I.afayette's arrival was to the Amerl-
cans in the darkest lAur of the Revoiu-
tion. The action proposed by Senator
Morgan is frank open, avowed; 1T de-
mands the recognition Of Cuban bellige-
rency. with recognition of the republic
as the necessary inevitable. logical con-
sequence. But this Intervention OF the
President Is the hand and voice or
.Jacob--the hands are not disguised 10 be
like the hands Of Esau-
EDGE OF INTERFERENCE.
"The President in tervenes promptly.
In the name of charity, in behelf Of
American citizens. Why doesn't he In
tervene in behalf Of Americans in Arme-
MIA. or I'm Thessaly, or in Constantine
pie? Because he is inserting the fine edge
of interference in Cuban affairs. lie mas
got 10 send ships and provisions into
one dozen Cuban ports The Spanish
TIL 4ff a
consulates when the ships appear. L
happen TO know the Consul at Matanzas,
the ex-maior of the Fourth Illinois cav
airy. and Barker, at Sagla la Grande,
ex-captain Eleventh Mississippi, Army
of Northern Virginia, and l give notlce
that the moment a shot is fired at ellher
of these there will be the most curious.
interesting, and Instructive exhibition OF
pyrotechnics that has ever been seen
i'm the tropics. Put those men at the
tons OF the stairs in one or those great
Spanish houses or palacts-ahd there
are several at Sagua la Grande. and at
Matanzas, too-put that Union 'els,a" " u
al the one place. and the ex-Reb in the
other. with five Spencer rifles apiece, ana
two cartridges, and they-those TWO
rnen-vill whip the mob which attacks
and there will be Spanish funerals ana
masses for the dead in every church TOT
many day-after they fire on an Amen-
can Consul"
"Now the President knows all this, and
think he's batting a trap. III tnls
doesn't catch anything, he VIII lana an
armed guard to protect American clt-
zens. and ii won't be long before ne il
he i'm possession of every cuban port
Remember, the war with Mexico was
declared by a resolution of Congress
lot
states and Mexico, by the act of Mexi-
co. and expect to see this Congress
declare that the insults and expressions
Of Spain 10 us in Cuba are no longer
70 he tolerated. and that it has become
our duty to expel the Spanish from the
island I'm the interest of peace and hui
manity.
LEE a NEW GLORY.
.Tt makes me tired to hear of this new
born zeal about American interests III
| Cuba. Fitz. Lee has been explaining and
renorting and reiterating all that these
ten months. He begged and implored th'
former administration to make some slgn
of interest in Americans in CUBA. He
has horne snubs from the Captain-Genera
and from his own government time anc
again on this account. l want fltz
| Lees career in Cuba TO be known by ths
American people. He's an honor to the
American name. He is new glory to
virginia. and he adds new lustre anc
additional radiance TO the name OF Lee
His place is Ambassador 10 Spain, al
Madrid. not commercial agent at Ha-
| bana. -
DANIELS ARGUMENT.
senator John Daniel made consti'
| tutional argument this afternoon IN the
| Senate on the question Of the right OF
the Executive or of the Congress tC
recognize an independent state ano
status of belligerency Of revolted sub
iects. and he demonstrated that both the
| President and the Congress had thai
| power. T.,
"Danlel is the profoundest lawyer II
the Senate in the history and construc'
| ton and spirit Of the Constitution. H'
| is head and shoulders above the preten
tious lawyers from New England who
nose as students of the Constitution
| Daniel has studied it faithfully and dill
gently. and knows the meaning OF every
section. every sentence, every WORD
Therefore. l suppose his presentation ol
the point to-day will make convincing
impression on the Senate. and very
great one on the country"