Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-22
REED AND CUBA

some DAYS ago Il lHoNc.i'Hl "o'' "'%' ~
In New York business circles for the
alleged purpose OF putting the admins
tratlon and Congress under such pres
sure as would result in this country's
taking decisive steps In respect OF CUBA
Nearly all. IL not all, OF the New YORK
papers endorsed the movement, and II
we mistake not some Of them made
great parade Of the names OF the
prominent men connected with it. But
the trail has gotten 100 fresh, owing
TO the passage by the Senate OF the
Morgan resolution, and taking the
Gotham press as a whole. 1t shows a
decided disposition TO moderate its zeal
for the cause Of Cuba.
However. II reports from Washington
are TO be believed, 1t is hardly probable
that the bellgerency resolution VIII
travel much further in the direction or
attaining "the force and effect Of law.
At any rate, some of the New YORK
papers are congratulating themselves
that there are yet three obstacles in the
way Of pluDging The country into war
and further dcmoTalizing business
These three obstacles are Tom Reed,
the House itself, and the President, but
according TO the Herald's Washington
correspondent, the greatest Of these Is
Reed.
That correspondent informs us that
"between the administration and the
jingoes Of the Senate stands Speaker
Reed. firm and serene, and determined
that public clamor shall not interfere
with the peaceful policy Of president
Mckinley" Also that Reed stiil has
the power TO Illustrate the schemes Of the
lingo senators and VIII not hesitate to
use IL. and that but for the assurance
he gave the conservative Republican
senator's that the bell.gerency resolution
would be blocked in the House OF Repre-
sentatlyes il would not have been al
lowed TO come to a vote in the Senate
The same writer says further, and in
this he is sustained by other Washing
ton correspondents. that even should the
House. in which it is calculated there Is
a heavy majority against the measure
pass the Morgan resolution, President
Mckinley would veto it.
These statements are entirely reason
able. Hitherto Reed has been known to
be bitterly hostile 10 the recognition OF
Cuban beHlgerency and it was given out
upon good authority, long before the
new President was inaugurated, that the
latter was in sympathy with the Cleve-
land Administration on the Cuban issue.
McKinley's public utterances or tins
issue have negatively confirmed that OUT
giving. The information of the Wash
ineton correspondents IS that neither he
nor Reed has changed his views, and
that being the case with Reed, we know
he will go to the most autocratic eX-
tremes to sustain his position. Whether,
however the Morgan resolution ought to
be passed by the House and signed by
the President or not, recognition oil
what Reed intends TO do if necessary to
preyent its passage by the House is lit
tie short OF a recognition that he is the
country TO say the least. the power
that Reed is allowed to exercise, ana
the course of his partisans in Congress
and some of the papers Of the country in
toodving to him and encouraging him
10 exercise it, constitute a striking and
humillating travesty upon representative
government.