The San Francisco call., 1897-05-18
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITF.
Ddnjet AyGin argues in support of tn
Rcco0nition Of CWbaus.

Ddniet again argues in support OF me
Reco0njtion of C"ba"s
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-THE
message was read in the Senate imme-
diately after the journal was read. Then
Chairman DAVIS OF The Foreign Relations
Committee reported Gallinger's joint reso-
luton appropriating $4,000. amended to
read $50 coo 10 be appropriated Tor. the re-
lief OF destitute citizens of the United
States in the island of Cuba, to be e1-
rended at the discretion and under the
direction of the President in the purchase
and furnishing of food, clothing and med
icnes and for trans porting to the United
States such of them who desire and who
are without means to transport them
selves.
The joint resolution was passed after
remarks by Gallinger, in which he said he
would not have introduced 1t if he bad
known the Executive contem plated send.
ing such message TO Congress, He had
been impressed yesterday al the great
mass meeting Eeld in Washington and :he
staten ut of Karl Decker to the efft CT
that there was abundance OF food in Cuba
to supply the necessities of life to all in.
habitants If they were only permitted to
go TO places where it could be found, but
the captain-general in brutal and inhu-
man way had herde1 the people to the
cities. In the interest of common human
itv the United States ought 10 demand of
the Spanish Government to permit these
people to escape from their present bond
age and go into the country, where they
would find means of sustaining ilfe
a
luton came 'hp and Morgan suggested that
if no Senator desired to speak he would
ask for vote.
Hale. promptly jumped up with the
claim OF no quorum present, and call of
the Senate was ordered. Forty-six Sena-
tors answered and before an attempt to
get a vote was made Wellington arose to
address the Senate in opposition to the
resolution. He made an impassioned ap-
peal for 'tconservatiyeness." He likened
the "iingo'' tai k of friends of the Morgan
resolution to the fighting of the windmill
by Don Quixote and the action of the
Irishman at the Donnybrook fair, going
about begging some booy to tread on the
tail of his coat.
DAME! of Virginia, member of the
cized Wellington's s speech as a shot at the
main issue instead of an argument on the
motion to refer. 1t seemed to him the re-
marks of the Senator from Maryland were
based on an entire Misrepresentation OF the
character OF the resolution. The resolu-
zion did not involve in the least an act of
hostility to Spain. The Senator from
Maryland had referred to the obligations
due to Spain for its encouragement to
Columbus four centuries ago, but for his
part, he thought it great pity Colum bus
ever discovered America, if the new in
habitants were to continue the savagery
which had prevailed before they came.
Z Daniel then went on to make a constitu-
tional argumen mt in support of the propo-
sition that Congress had power to recog-
niZe either the belligerency or inde-
pendence OF new State. He characterize ed
the claim that the right OF recognition was
executive as ''most preposterous and at
tenuated shape of one man power"
This remark caused a debate between
Daniel and Caffery, however. on the ex-
ecutiye's power to recognize beligerency.
1t showed the speakers we're all in doubt
on the point. Then Daniel continued
speech, saying:
There has been a condition OF war in
Cuba for two years and half The di-
plomacy of the Spanish Government has
succeeded in binding the eyes Of diplu-
mats of the United States to q realiza ton
OF that fact. But the world knows there
is war IN Cuba, high-handed, red-handed,
bloody, lamentable, cruel, savage war, a
war in which Spain has employed larger
army than the British Government ever
sent to put down the insurrection in the
American colonies in 1776 and that army
Is opposed by an army on the other side.
at is a fact there is war IN Cuba whether
the record is in our resolution or not. 1t
is fact, whether we sympathizs with
Cuba or with Spain, and it being fact, it
is an act of humanity for us 10 deal with
it and throw the great moral weight of
this Government so as 10 see the war con-
Quoted with as close approximation to
Cnristian usages and civilized customs as
practicable under the circumstanc
at is said that this means war. / deny
it. If Spain should declare war upon US;
if she should seek for a moment war
against us because we recognize the BEL
ligerency of her former subjects who have
been fighting her two and a half years,
she will have an unjust cause of COM
plant in the war against US, and we will
have a just cause of complaint for war
against her. do not want to see the
American people involved in war. l look
upon war as one OF the greatest calami-
ties. 1t is greater calamity to have the
high public spirit of a great nation so
dead that it looks upon piunder and MUIR
der and arson with Indifference; 10 have
the public spirit of a great nation SO
oeadened that it hesitates or delays one
instant to go forward and do proper act
because of fear of war"
Daniel went Ola to argue that as Cuba is
right at our doors we have just ground
for Intervention. But aside from that we
have, he said, assumed an obligation
toward Cuba by the warning to Europe
that we will not permit them to meddle
with her affairs. He concluded amid great
applause from the galleries.
The English Embassador occupied a
seat in the diplomatic gallery during the
debate and was an attentive listener.
OBSTR UCTED By BAILEY