Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-20

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 recognized the belligerency of the insur- gents year ago and the island would have assumed civilized form and the is- la@d have been spared ths spectacle thas was appalling it today. The Uni.ed | g aites could not afford to shrink from
 the consequences of recognition. It 1 should go forth to the world that one | naslion recognized that the people who | had for thrse years maintained war
 against a, force that would have subdued l any ordinary instruction were legally | belligerents.
 Mr. Lindsay said that the time fore | shadowed by President Cleveland's mes- | sags when intervention would be neces- 1 whether the United States should recog-
 nize belligerency, but whether it should 1 ncf go farther to prere,.t the utt5r de- | vasc3Eon of lhe island. In conclusion | he said:
 q say if Gen. Lee would be in danger 1 for having the reports which he makes | from his own knowledge given to the 1 public, or any Oth5r consul, however 1 humble, it is time the United States should send warships to give '.he pro ec- 1 Ii on that Spain oeanc't or will not give,
 orsth2it all diplomatic relations with that I country should be severed"
 | There was much in!ereSl. wh:n MT. l F'6falSer arose to speak.
 | eieI warlt to say at the outset" he said, I "that I will vote for this resolution or
 some resolution like it. In adopting the ] resolution the senaI.s would act strictly 1 in accordance with international law. | There could be no question in recogniz- | ing the independence of Cuba, because no one claimed thai Intervention existed. l lHterVention was also out of the quas- l tion," MT Foraker declared, for reasons i which he proceeded to explain The eX- 1 planation was the announcems mt of a | fact which had hitherto been unknown, and created a sensation. He said:
 'In spfe of the limitations which are l imposed upon me, I feel at liberty to i state that mediation has been, tendered 1 by this government. and has been rejected | by Spain. AS long ago as April IT, 1896, 1 Secretary Olney addressed a note to he | spanish government through its min l 1ster r;s'ident in Washington, a commuai-
 cation which I hold in my hand of con- 1 siderable length of very great ability in
 which he poirl. ed out he then condition | Of affairs in Cuba and celcain practices | which f5 was desirable should cease, and
 offered the good officss of the United
 States to bring about settlement such | as could be made consist ently with the l dignity and honor of Spain'
 1 MT. Foraker read a sentence from 1 Spain's reply, as follows:
 | There is no effectual way to pacify 1 the Cubans except upon the condition
 that they first submit to the mol her coun- 1 try"
 That, he said, was the end of this coun- 1 try's efforts at mediation.
 l Discussing the Morgan resolution on | is merits, MT. Foraker said that direct
 intarvettion was a better, shorter and
 more Christfan-like way than the adop-
 ton of the resolution He would say to
 Spain:
 'In the name of civilization and hu- manity as we'll as in ohe interest of our l commerce, you must come to a stop, and | you must do so immediately" | This declaration brought out burst of
 applause from the galleries, which was promptly stopped by the chairman. The resolution under consideraj,ion did 1 riot go so far as this. IL was a mistake l to suppose that Is adoption meant war between the United States and Spain.
 Cuba has no right to ask the United l States for this Intervention nor Spain to | object to it. 1
 | MT. sForaker then read letter written | by Secretary Olney a year ago to Min
 lster Dupuy de Lome of Spain. which | the senator said had not heretofore been printed. In this letter MT. Olney stated 1 to the minister that the latter's hopes | of termination of the insurrection had | been completely destroyed The insur- l gents under arms had increased two l fold CT three-fold. They were we'll sup | piled with arms. In short it can hardly l be questioned, MT. Oney wrote, that the | insurreetion is more formidable than l ever. MT. Foraker also read from an l official communication just received | showing the power of the insurgent e'i iiy toodys He l6llGT stated that In | the districts which Gen. Weyler de- | clared were pacified there were more | insurgents under arms than there were | eleven months ago, having troops to the | number of 10000 armed with repeating 1 rifles. In pursuance of a fixed policy the insurgents avoided pitched battles. The l writer asserted -that the war would ding | along with the result of untold suffering 1 to men, women and children.
 | MT. Foraker admitted that if Cuba was a trNT Txxrif6 iab +lo TJ,,;to | had no transactions there would be no i cause for it to take notice of the insur- | rection, but all authorities agreed that it | was our right and duty to act season ably under the circumstances. The | whole controversy MT. Foraker asserted, | was united on the point of expediency of | recognition He admitted that recog- | milton would give Spain the right to | search ships of the United States for | goods contra band of war and relieve | struction to American property. Of the | latter result, he said:
 "I would not regard it as serious loss. | have found in the state department | claims piled up there amounting to many | millions for destruction of American | property in this rebellion and in each and every instance the presentation to the | Spanish government of such a claim has | been followed by long diplomatic cor respondence winding up in every case | with the direct refusal to recognize such | a claim And it is a notorious fact that | if Spain did recognize them they would | be unable to pay them. Tn all serious l ness would rather hold the obligations | of the insurgents than of Spain.'' | It was time, MT. Foraker said in con- | clusion, that the United States ceased | policing her shores in the interest of | Spain. It-was time to end this quasi | partnership in brutal and hellish | war and for his part no vote or act would continue this unholy alliance, MT Hoar replied to MT Foraker, con- | tending that the senate should have au- | thoritative facts sent forth like a judi | cial finding of a. court in an official re- ! port He complained that MT. Foraker | wanted the senate to act on information | which he was not at liberty to disclose Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska, took the | floor intending to address the senate when the Cuban debate is resumed to- l morrow, . 5l.5l 10.
 At 6 o'clock, the senate adjourned. IN THE. HOUSE.
 Speaker Reed has called a meeting of