Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-09
HOT SHOTS FOR CUBA.
genatoss Allen, Cannon and Mason Intro
due. strong RasoIut. ems In the Senate.


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Long preamble Determined ON Action.
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to- ,i0en Fit to force action on
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to. .. ONE red-hot resolutions:
~. Allen (Neb. said, in presentinga
Cuban amendment TO the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, that since
the opening Of hostilities in Cuba more
than 5000 pacifieos had died of star
Walton, or of disease directly traceable
to insufficient food or lack of proper
sanitary conditions. He said that he
had been informed that it was the Gus
tom Of the Spanish government to herd
them together he expressed the hope
that the committee on foreign relations
would act promptly upon the amend
ment, SO that the senate could have an
opportunity to vote upon it.
The amendment says:
That Il condition 81 public war exists
between the government OF Spain and
the government proclaimed and for some
time maintained ~ force OF arms by the
people OF CUBA, anti that the United
States shall maintain strict neutrality
between the contending powers and ae-
cord Is, each all the rights of belligerents
ia the ports and territory of the United
States.
NJ. allen said t1at he desired to have
the amendment made q part of the dip
lomatic bill, so that the house of repre-
scntat4yes might have an opportunity
to vot upon the proposition and not be
stlfied by the committee on foreign af-
fairs Of that body on by other influences.
Mr. Cannon (Utah) then offered the
following resolution:
Whereas, The people of the republic of
Cuba are, and OF right ought to be free
and independents and
" her, as, he continuance of the bar
barous warfare spain, in her attempt
to sabJugate the bsstf4Ots of that republic
is in violation OF the law of humanity, is
a menace to the freedom and progress of
the people o. tAo Western hemisphere,
and is full justification for demand by
the government OF the United States that
Spain shall withdraw her land and naval
forces from Cuban and Cuban waters and
shall leave that republic and her people to
their enjoyment of life, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness; therefore be it,
Resolved, By the senate, that the presi-
dent of the United States is urged to
notify the kingdom of spain that If Spain
shall fail TO recognize the independence of
the republic of Cuba on or before the 18th
day of March, 1885, the government of the
United states will on that date recognize
the belligereney of the Cuban patriots
and will within so days thereafter assert
the independence of the republic of Cuba.
Senator Mason His. offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Whereas. The war between Spain and
the insurgents of Cuba has continued I'M
til all Christendom is shocked by its bar
barities, pretended autonomy has been of
fered by Spain and refused by the Cubans
in arms. The Spanlard, as war meas
ure, burned the homes and drove the
women and children (since known as con-
centradoes) into fortified towns, where
some of them have been starved others
have been murdered and women and chill
dren have been debauched and treated be-
yond the power of language to describe.
Daughters of insurgent soldiers have been
sold into houses of infamy, and boys of
tender years have been shot as spies I'M
der the form of civilized war. American
citizens have been driven into towns and
refused an opportunity to work and left to
starve, as part of the Spanish war meas
ure, until we were compelled to take, by
appropriating funds of the people of the
United States, large sums of money to
feed and clothe our citizens and to return
them to our country, and now the Spanish
war measure of concentration has contin-
ued so far that the concentrates are I'M
fed and star ing, naked and filthy, inso-
much that disease and death is among
them and has spread into our own coun-
try.
Hundreds of thousands have persisted
in this way and by this means. The un-
holy work o determination goes on the
slaughter of innocentS and non-combatantS
goes on, the lag of truce has been aban-
doned and determination or Independence
of the insurgents must be the final out
come. The people of the United States
are sending money, food and clothing to
Cuba to aid the dying Cubans, which
ought to be furnished by Spain, for the
reason that the concentrates are the
legitimate wards of Spain having been
put in their present starving condition as
a Spanish war measure and their care
would devolve upon Spain and would SO
be regarded by every civilized nation in
the world Under the present charity
seeking. of the administration charitablv
disposed citizens of the United States
cannot contribute money, medicine, food
or clothing to the insurgents in the field
or hospital, and should any attempt be
made TO do so it would be captured and
prevented by order of the United States
All parties declared before the last cleo
ton in favor of the independence of Cuba
and the Republican party emphasized it's
opinion as follows: Here Senator Mason
quoted the Cuban plank of the Republi-
can national convention.)
The people of the United States do not
seek to acquire title to Cuba, nor do they
seek to gain advantage in any wav di
rectly or indirectly of any nation b9 rea-
son of this barbarism called war They
do not complain of our loss of trade with
Cuba and have patiently borne the assault
on the health of the people by the filth of
Spanish rule in Cuba. They seek no re-
dress for loss of business or health or
money. They have patiently waited. not
wishing (even Indirectly to Interfere with
the affairs of other nations, until the