Evening star., 1898-04-14
FAVOR OF RECOGNITION
Minority Report of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee.
Ii In Claimed That the Govrrnm . M
Estnbtfshcd by the Cubans o..
Republic In Fact.

The following is the text Of the report II
the minority OF the House foreign affairs
| committee in support Of their resolutions
for Intervention and recognition OF the Gu
| ban insurgents:
We. the undersigned members Of the
| committee on foreign affairs OF the House
| OF Representatives. having considered tn.
| message of the President of the United
| States. which was transmitted to Congress
on Monday. April H. 1s9s and on said day
referred to said committee. submit the fol-
| lowing report TO the House of Represeuta
| tives"
| After recommending resolutions as a SUBJ
stitute for those submitted BY the majority
OF the committee on foreign affairs printed
IN yesterdays Star, the report goes on TO
say:
I'm support Of the first resolution guided
oy motives OF humanity and of interest in
Huenced by divers proVocations among
which are the deliberate mooring of our
battle ship. the Maine. over a submarine
| mine, Its ruthless destruction In the har arbor
| OF Havana and the death Of 266 seamen We
/ submit the facts TO the House TO our coun-
! trymen. and to the world
| for more than quarter OF a century,
| win snort intervals a revolution has been
| IN progress in Cuba, destroying our COM
| merce ana causing great financial loss to
our citizens and unprecedented mortality
| among the contending factions
| For more than three years the C,,ban
| patriots have struggled for freedom With
| courage. fortitude and self-abnegatton un-
| eXceiied in the annals of the human race
| These people are our near neighbors close
| ly connected with us by ties of business
| ana OF friendship. In their aspirations for
| hperty they have been animated by our ex-
ample, and have modelled their form Of gov
| ernment upon ours.
| During these three years the spaniards
| nave butchered these people starved helm
less women children and Ole men by hun
a,eds or thousands, and have wasted the
| isiand by fire and sword in violation of all
| The rules of civilized warfare These acts
OF barbarous cruelty have filled the Ameri-
can people with horror, and they are prac-
| ucally unanimous in favor of recognizing
| the independence Of the government es,ab-
| lisned by that brave and heroic people bv
| the expenditure of so much treasure and
| so much blood. and our people will be sat-
| isfied with nothing less.
All the Forms of a Republic.
The government which the Cubans have
established has all the forms OF a repub-
iic' and is republic in fact, based on man..
| hood suffrage. with legislative and execu-
tive departments in full operation, AID
with judicial department SO far perfect
| as the exigencies of the situation permit
| They levy and collect taxes. disburse
| large sums of money. conduct a postal sys-
| ZEN, maintain an army of 10000 men in the
tsrd. hayc defended themselves success
4 =.
Gao of whom are in hospitals or in their
/ graves. and are now in undispuied bosses
sion of three-fourths of tine island. Outside
| her picket lines Spain possesses not one
| foot of Cuban soil Within her picket lines
| tkree-fourths of the population are insur-
gents at heart, who will cordially partici-
pate in the republican government as soon
| as the Spaniards evacuate the island.
| with these facts staring US in the face
| we must realize that Spain can never cSa-
Quer Cuba, and that ultimately W. must
recognize the independence Of the Cuban
| republic. This beirS thS case the sooner
we act the better Tor ALI concerned. there
by putting an End to The sacrifice of human
Efe and TIE destruction of property.
! Reasons for Recognition.
/ I'VE urge the unequivocal recognition Of
the Independence OF the Cuban republic.
| because the Cuban patriots merit such
recognition by their v2lor and prowess in
! arms: because recognition is the plain.
| honest, courageous. manly course. and VIII
| re move from the minds Of all men any sus-
| pic:on that We are preparing t. wage a war
| OF conquest and to annex the island from
| motives of sordid greed, the begin
| ring OF q policy OF imperial aggrandize-
| ment: We urge the recognition OF the exist
| ing republic, because under international
| law only an existing government can be
| recognized. and because by recognizing the
| present republic We lift from the minds OF
| the Cuban patriots the fear that we VIII
| do not want: we urge IL because without
| such recognition in the event of war he
| tween Spain and the American republic, IT
| vculd be war against Cuba also. Tor un-
| til the recognition OF her Independence sho
| is in the contemplation OF international
| law still part Of Spain.
| Recognizing the independence OF their
l. republic will give the Cubans credit among
| the nations of the earth. thereby enabling
| them to use all their resources to the ut
| mCst and will influence men of other
| countries to re-enforce the Cubans with
| the assurance that they will be treated as
| soldiers, and will not he hanged as ual'.
| ors filibusters or pirates I'm the event OF
capture.
| Reasons for Intervention.
| I'VE urge the passage Of the second reso-
| luton, providing for armed intervention. as
| a necessary and logical sequence to the rec
| cenition of the independence OF the cuban
| republic.
| Facts must be considered as they actu-
| ally exist 10. as We would have them, and
| one of the most potent or patent facts or
: the situation is that Spain refuses to realize
| what all the rest of the world knows to he
| true-that Cuba has passed from her con.
| troll forever. This being the case, she VIII
| hold on with the strength. OF despair 10
fragments OF the island as long as possible.
| thereby perpetuating the process OF starNa-
| tion arson and determination wherever she
| can, and by occasional forays ravaeing the
| country adjacent to her garrisons and
| stockades We have no doubt that our sim
| pie recognition of the republic of Cuba
| would enable the Cubans themselves to ul-
/ timately .xpel the Spaniards from every
! portion of the island. Armed Intervention
| on our part would end the agony OF this
brave people save thousands of them from
| death. and speedily close the most disgrace
| full chapter in the history of the western
| hemisphere We owe this duty to ourselves
| no less than to the Cubans.
| I'VE recommend the adoption of the third
/ aaa he ia mi iah al n a
| an act of mercy and humanity"
The report is signed by Representatives
| Dinsmore, Newlands. Clark of Missouri.
| Williams, Berry and Howard of Georgia.
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