The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-19

States appreciates the humanitarian and disinterested character of the communication now made on behalf of the powers named, and for it's part is confident that equal appreciation will be shown for it's own earnest and un- selfish endeavors to fulfill duty to humanity by ending a situation the in- definite prolongation of which has be- come insufferable.
 l commend any man who still thinks it is his duty to attack, discredit and malign the president to turn his mag nifying glass upon those grand and noble words.
 MT Allen. Will the senator from Connecticut permit me? I did not criticise the language of the president of the United States. I criticised, and desired to criticise, simply the fact that the powers had the presumption to in- wade and the president not moral power enough to resist an invasion of the white house to submit the communica- tion.
 MT. Platt of Connecticut. I suppose, MT. President, that if the people of the United States, in the exercise of their suffrages and their wisdom, should ever elect the honorable and distin- guished senator from Nebraka to the white house and the ambassadors of the nations of the earth came there for an interview he would direct the door, keeper to turn them away.
 MT. Allen. They were refused by MT. Seward thirty years ago.
 MT. Platt of Connecticut. have no time to answer interruptions. I say that we can not, without turning our back on every sentence which has been uttered or written by the presidents of the United States and the secretaries of state of the United States, recognize an independent government in Cuba.
 What if we do? What if we lower the banner: what if we abandon the high and noble, Christian-like ground which has been taken by the president of the United States, and come down to the level of the men who desire the recognition of government which has no real existence as much or more than they do the triumph of our arms in Cuba? If we recognize it on this floor, we must recognize it on the soil of Cuba. If we say in the joint resolution, in this solemn act of congress, that the people of Cuba are free and inde- pendent, we mean that they are free and independent in the sense in which we are free and independent, and when we go to the Island of Cuba we must treat that people as free an independ- ent people.
 We must march under their banner, not ours, or if we march under ours it must be a banner subordinate to the flag of the republic of Cuba, so called. General Miles, the commander of our army, and the president of the United States, if he takes the field as the com mander in chief of our army, must take orders from Maxine Gomez. The senator from Kentucky (Mr. Lindsay) saw the pinch of this, and therefore he introduced resolution that when we go there we shall go by agreement; that our army shall march under the command of our own general.
 When we are through, when the last Spanish soldier shall have been driven from that soil, what then? Accede to the demands of Maximo Gomez that we leave at the same time. There is no escape from this. Leave with the high and holy purpose, with the inn perative duty, of seeing that the gov ernment which shall exist in Cuba af- ter the Spaniards leave 1t is to be a government which shall be stable, which shall secure peace to its citizens and protect our citizens and maintain and discharge every international ob- .,;n "No; you recognized our government: our government will take care of this. Get out" What an ignominious end- ing for the campaign!
 MT President, we ought to pass res- olutions here which we can Justify. We ought not to give our consent to resolutions unjustifiable In their char acter, for the reason that we desire to accomplish the great purpose in view. When Abraham Lincoln put his name to that immortal document which struck the shackles from the limbs of four million people, after having suf- fered abuse, vituperation, vilification which the abuse heaped upon Presi- dent Mckinley does not parallel, he wrote these magnificent words: "And upon IhlS act Slncerely DelleVed 10 De an act of justice warranted by the constitution upon military necessity, l invoke the deliberate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of AL mighty God.'' MT. President, I i'm plore, I adjure the senate to pass nc resolutions upon which it may not write in spirit, if not in fact, the | words, And upon this act we invoke the deliberate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God"