Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-08
WASHINGTON WIRE
Resolutions Favorable to Immediate
Recognition Of Cuban Belliger-
ency introduced in Senate.
SHOCKING FACTS RECITED
Several Nominations Sent to Senate by the
President Including That Of Robert E.
Morrison for United States Attor-
ney of Arizona. %

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Washington, Feb. 8.--Senator Cannon
today offered the following resolution
for the recognition Of Cuban indepen
dence:
u Whereas, The people of the republic
of Cuba are and of right ought to b,
free and independent; and
\ Whereas, The continuance of the bar
barous warfare of Spain, in her attemp
to subjugate the patriots of that republic
is In violation of the laws of humanity
is menace to the freedom and progress
of the people of the Western hemis
phere, and is full justification for de.
mand by the government of the United
States that Spain shall withdraw hei
land and naval forces from Cuba and
Cuban waters, and shall leave the re.
public and her people to the enjoyment
OF life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the senate, that the
president of the United States is urged
to notify the Kingdom of Spain that, If
Spain shall fail to recognize the inde-
pendence of the republic of Cuba on or
before the 4th of March, 1893, the gov
ernment of the United States will on
that date recognize the belligerency of
the Cuban patriots and will within 80
days thereafter assert the independence
of the republic of Cuba.
Another Cuban Resolution.
Senator Mason, of Illinois. has pre-
sented the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the president of the
United States. be and is hereby request
ed to notify Spain and the insurgents of
Cuba that war (so-called) must at once
cease and be discontinued and that the
United States of America hereby de-
clares and will maintain peace on the is
land of Cuba.
The resolution was preceded by a pre-.
amble, which asserts that
THE war between Spain and the in
surgents of Cuba has continued until all
Christendom is shocked by it's barbara
ties; pretended autonomy has been Of
fered by Spain and refused by the
Cubans in arms; Spaniards, as war
measure, have burned the homes and
driven the women and children (since
known as concentradoes) into fortified
towns, where some of them have been
starved; others have been murdered and
women and children have been de-
bauched and treated beyond power of
language to describe; daughters of the
insurgent soldiers have been sold into
houses of infamy AID boys Of tender
years have been shot as spies; under the
form of civilized war, American citizens
have been driven into towns and re-
fused an opportunity to work and left to
starve as part of the Spanish war
until we are compelled to take,
by appropriating funds of the people OF
the United States, large sums of money
to feed and clothe our citizens and re-
turn them to our country, and now has
the Spanish war measure of concentra-
tion continued so far that the concen-
tradOes are unfed and starving, naked
and filthy in so much that disease and
death are among them and spread into
our own country. All parties declared
before the last election in favor of the |
OF Cuba and the Republi- |
can party emphasized its opinion in its
platform of 1885,
The preamble says: ''Thc people of
the United States, demanding no per-
sonal profit, having no fear and seeking
no favor, clear and conscious as to the
justice of our position, do, in the pres
ence of the civilized nations of the
world, and In the name of justice and
liberty, demand that the so-called war
in Cuba must cease"
still Another Recognition Of Cuba.
Senator Allen. OF Nebraska, today Of
fered, as an amendment to the diplO-
matte and consular appropriation bill,
the Morgan resolution for the recogni-
tion of the belligerency of Cuba.
Mr.. Bate (Tenn.,) presented the
of Thomas B. Turley to the
senate today. to fill the vacancy caused
by the death Of the late Senator 1sham
G. Harris.
Mr.. Stewart (Nev.,) secured the
of a resolution directing the
postmaster general to send to the senate
the cost of carrying the various classes
of mail matter.
The bill passed to ratify the agree
ment between the Dawes commission
and the Seminole nation of Indians.
AT 3:08 p. M, the senate went into ex-
ecutive session on the Hawaiian treaty.