Show MR HITTS HOT SPEECH demands adoption of tile the cuban resolutions DECLARING THEIR EFFECT if its as a belligerent cuba can rrose cuto her struggle tor for freedom with a flag and a standing in the family of nations she can come to this country and buy munitions of war on an equality with spain whitt what other presidents did under like ilko circumstances washington april 3 the galleries of the house were welt well lined filed today in anticipation of 0 it a renewal of 0 the cuban debate in connection nith the presentation of 0 ilia conference report on the cuban resolution but the atte attendance nuance on oil tile floor was wad smaller than usual mr ir murphy rep ill secured unanimous consent for consideration ot of the bill to authorize the construction of 0 n P third bridge across the mississippi river bt at st louis the bill w as mr pickier chairman of 0 tho the pen wons committee demanded tho the regular order this being private bill day he wanted to proceed with consideration of 0 private pension bills reported from the committee ot of the whole mr air hitt chairman ot of the foreign affairs committee thought h he e ought to those bills it th they ey would entail debate in the inter interest cst of 0 the conference conte renoa report on the cuban resolutions lut ions cuba can watt trait replied mr while we pass these pension bills mr hitt finally agreed to withhold hla his motion it pickier would demand I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ji I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 I 1 11 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 chairman hitt tho the previous question on each bill pa aa called up the democrats insisted there ought to be debate mr erdman dem pa P promptly ret n aptly made the point of 0 no DO quorum on n the birst bill there were some dilatory tactics and the speaker was comp compelled ellid to count a quorum REED REVERSES HIMSELF when mr erdman made the point of no quorum the speaker made the important that constituted a quorum thus deciding that a a majority majoria of 0 tho the airing members hii as S quorum instead of a majority of 0 the full membership of the house a point raised in tho the kentucky senatorial tight fight ahta question had never been abl absolutely settled in the fifty first congress Con eress speaker reed need held that a majority of a full house was a quorum mr richardson chardson Il called attention to the importance of the ruling and asked askea if tho the speaker intended to reverse ills his decision in the arst congress the speaker replied that he did lie ire explained that his former ruling l was made hurriedly on the side of 0 safety after thorough examination he had concluded that IL a majority of living members was waa a quorum lie he cited several authorities among others that ot of 33 everdy johnson mr grosvenor rep 0 said paid he de at some future time to cite other authorities after thirty bills had been passed in something more than an hour mr ardman made a novel 1 point ot of order dem demanding andlee after a bill had been ordered to be engrossed that a copy ot of the engrossed bill lie be produced As ai this could not be done tho the bill was laid aside CUBAN CONFER LINCE REPORT then at p in mr hitt hatt chairman of the foreign affairs committee called up tho the conference report on th the cuban resolutions the report agreed to the senate resolution lut lons the first of 0 aich declared in tile opinion ot of congress Conot ss that a state elate ot of N yuello u ablio war existed in cuba and that the united states should maintain a strict neutrality lic between tween tho the being barents rents vA and tho the second requested the president to use its his friendly offices with the spanish government tor for th 3 recognition of 0 the independence of cuba the conferees originally agreed on the house resolutions tho the most important ot of which favored intervention it necessary but when the senate rejected tho the report of 0 the conferees the now W conferees decided to accept the senate S ate resolutions resolution mr alitt moved the adoption of the conference con farence report aftic r parliamentary status and pointing out the difference differed dif feren c e between bet the and house desoi resolutions u eions mr hitt hilt said cald amr yr speaker ker the two resolutions which your conference committee have weed to luid d now report propose first that we s n oldia accor accord d to the people of cuba be belligerent Il gerent rights and second tender our friendly il endly offices to the spanish government tor for the recognition 0 or f cuban independence these re resolution so lations racil passed the senate on the mh of february by a majority of CS votes notes on tile 2nd and ot of march the house ado adopted ted in place of 0 them by majority I 1 three ree i the first of which proposed tho the recognition ot of belligerent rights the second the iho use of our rood good offices and friendly influence in the establishment of a government by the choice of the people of cuba and third that we wa should be prepared to protect the interests te restal ot of american citizens in dubs cuba by intervention it necessary it will he seen been that each ot of the first resolutions propose A recognition IT OP OF tha e second n d resolution as we adopt c td it wag i 11 1 more cautious fo form con than tile the senate resolution and sp spain itin could not unless persistently seeking a quarrel have resented such a proposition while the rc resolution solution ot of I 1 the h e senate proposing independence was M more ore exposed to captious objection A prope proposition by ono one nation to an other in ordinary peaceful time to re it cor corniaa nIza the independence of 0 11 part ot of its territory would be offensive tor for example a proposition by great britain to our government to recognize tile the independence of 0 new england or california for tila but when a war but between weort a parent government and a dependency lisa haa been going on for or a considerable time and when separation Is the best solution ot of the elie war the mediation atlon or friendly counsel of 0 another nation to volvo on an existing struggle by ing independence may be 01 truly friendly act in cases case almost precisely parallel where spain was wa nt at war with her dependencies on this continent in the early part of 0 this century our govern inc tit did in fact take tho the very tory step proposed tn tit tills second resolution diar ing the ezey ot app grin aman I 1 was at t war with her american citi colonies onles the colonies refused I 1 to 0 open 11 any f neso ae li gam ni 9 unless tile the be n ale ut 0 th air e jas a ninde its bans bath and nd a ilal later president said to promote that result idda i pon pende dence by friendly counsel with other 1 including spain 1 herself ia 1 beer been the uniform policy of I 1 tills 10 government in his message aga of t ira 11 lie repeats ahli language ire a second time almost the lan languard guare of I 1 tills ills second resolution again ing tho the ten years struggle between spill and the people ot f cuba from to ass oen gen grant t through our minister at madrid offered the rood good of 0 th united states to bi bilna ing thil that I 1 war to P a clore cloe on oil the basin balla of cuban ln dependence spain a to b i inu an indemnity tho the united guarantee eu SENT ACTION callad FOR the of 0 tile or tile the shug cuban pear right now Is ie a far more important rind inizie question that is ti 11 point covered by the lart both by tho the senate arid and the I 1 louse lu at else it Is to 10 tile tho question of their belll ferency that our people havo have given their aarni it t everywhere throughout the united states they have sent to tills house petitions 1 and I memorials without ruiD ber coming con ilni front from lures chimblis chim beis of 0 commerce boards ot of trade churches so clelles and citizens liy ily te lens of 0 thousands thou hands on oil the other sido ln anil i vidual in embT have vl bettels lilt ia from d tiny iny action wh whatever aLever theme letters pie me almost 1 nl iwaya from those who call elven business men brol brieva eia ant and nien men tire anro opposed to any agitation rr cr of a foreign question and I 1 recta to care very little about alth r tile tha cubero or cr spaniard i but wetly edwil the nimr marlot lct rh ic voice of tho the pee plo pie ot of the united elated As n expressed tit in the enormous enor moua riven given in this bouse to ID 17 Is I 1 in favor of recoe the of tile the cubans it Is against tills ihla that nil all the franish Ff anish cs in this country are an most strenuously exerted it Is to chivi hocq hon of of ct belinger mc the that all cubans and fridner fr lerdi of cut cuba it burn iorii the reason Is plain they know it bould out I 1 I 1 be a I 1 ef ct importance biml d ass aalt I 1 t ance to the cisbani cause OF O it give a ilas flag it would rive give than a status in the if I 1 they hey procured a vessel and entered new ew york harbor tomorrow nith alth their lone star flag tiley would be liable to I 1 ile be treated as pir pirate ateo tile th SpAril hil aln ister would immediately claim this thin should be done but with a iw flag they could enter as 03 the from oil all countries do they could buy munitions munif of war openly F they could buy supplies of every kind men could RO go openly ir if arnad arm d eipl expeditions editions dit ions to join them 1 I hey could negotiate loans negotiate them As a openly at as tho the spaniards do nov nort the spanish government buys munitions of war at hartford and philadelphia buys bayt supplies loads ehlis ln in tact fact the united slates la Is today the base of operations in a arlom furious war to crush cruh those who are struggling glIng for liberty anil and our government hive hat ben been b en busted busied for or a year tit in obeying the intimations of 0 the spanish minister Is this IMs fairness la 74 this justice Is this obil ervins neutrality in the struggle miller either in spirit or in fact are ve not efficient oppress ra of if tit hi cubans such has not been ix cn the policy ot of our government in earlier lays days in 1915 1815 the spanish minister do onla when tile the in south america were struggling lust just as the th cubans ale aie now that our port should be closed to the revolutionists revolutionist under the nags flan of duano ayres Carth Cartha agona genn arid and the mexican congress Cons reas wd and mothr places which have hav e he says fayn revolted against I 1 the authority of the king kin my mister lie he denounced them as a pirates and bandits and demanded that they should bo be so treated treated president madison dison disregarded lain lil haughty demands and rr re c coyn led the L of the elink in colilli t 1 I 1 l tho aces uces y ini of t lie w cul culkins in s v hldi 11 w probable tor 0 O r a year c r they he y h have I 1 11 w il fro ned lh the a ranj of c p alv n I 1 in iii i r e n t statement rv t ly the lie n in PI t r addressed d holthe people of the united states that spain had tent sent men to cubit cuba with this great army more ilian elian forty war vessels have been operating cooperating co to shut the cubans in and sadue them far from being subdued they have fought on successfully for a year earh each month arid and each week pressing forward bringing province after province under their power until their buthot lly ity has extended over miles from the eastern to the western end of the island and the spanish forces are today larg largely ay PENN PENNED ZED IN CITIES it Is some times objected that we ought not to encourage the cubans to separate government as they would simply enter upon anarchy and astle successive ce sive revolutions as so often has I 1 happened with other spanish american colonies rut hut in fact cuba differs from all the ot lieis except chill in that two thirds of its population are arc of 0 european origin chile and cuba are the only two spots in spanish america where herc the spanish race colonized in the ilia fl fashion ishlon which the anglo saxons colonized by transplanting their people a and d building up their own race nice chile fins has been for or fifty years conspicuous in south america for cor ability arid and energy I 1 ifer her securities acio good in european Kuro Jur penn markets forty ysais ago the other spanish american were in tact fact populations ILlg cly indian 11 in I 1 blood ruled uy 1 L emall proportion of 0 people of the european lace inee we ore arc under no obligations to favor spain and oppression as against cuba and freedom rt member how spain in undid and seized upon panto domingo then the united states was engaged in 11 the war of the rebellion it was disclosed in the debates in the spanish curts curt s afterward alter after waid that that occupation of santo domingo as aa entered catered upon expressly to thwart the influence of the united states and prevent our obtaining a thallon at samaria samana it wa was in this that spain recognized the belligerency of the confederates 0 a month before blood was shed in battle it was wa dono done in operation cooperation co with louis napoleon mho he also pursuing the tame same scheme of oppression took look advani advantage ta ge of our troubles to oer thio tho the r republic of mexico and set up an empire there mr hilt was waa several times vigorously applauded mr air swanson acm mann va asked it 1 the these c resolutions would carry with them the recognition of cuban belligerency THEY WOULD NOT mr alitt replied that they would not of themselves but he had no doubt that they would lead to the recognition of tho the cubans cubana by a presidential proclamation 1 I do not 1 ll laleve leve sald said lie that the Pre president would ho he so recreant to his duty as to disregard the expressed visit of 0 the representatives of thi the people I 1 have faith that the Pre president dent Is the agent of the people and their re representatives P not their rules loud applause I 1 in reply to sir mr patterson Patt tron acm dem tenn who visited what proportion ot of the 1600 WO inhabitants of 0 cuba wore were adherents or in sympathy nym pathy alth ath the cause of 0 tho the revolutionists mr hut hitt said mild it was haid to determine over cicco men had enlisted 11 the cuban cause I 1 how many cubans hivo eril in tho the spanish causa ollied sir mr patter son on t we ore informed rep lied mr fr tit hiitt tt officially informed thit that m cubach s are forc enrolled among tile volunteers the term volunteers volunteer fi lo Is much stood tho the volunteers are arc Span laid obligated to military duty duly in spain igho elect c to perform that a ervice in cuba they are anion arnona ilia avid al mo it intensely hostile enemies of the cu barts barm they are the privileged bollt rit of 0 the cubans and annu annually foly rob tho cubans of 0 millions and their peculation cula are enormous it ilia people of cubb cuba field air Pal Pat lerHun are arc practically united 11 in the cau causa of 0 autonomy in my lop irion they are entitled to it and it if this ahli government would inter interfere tere to prevent spain from acquiring territory on the continents or of this thin hemisphere or the I 1 ho coral kilous in l I 1 ands I 1 do not lot ace why the united states should not liot interpose to prevent spain from retaining terl wry tory by subjugation loud applause aar apr lauso As AB mr hitt concluded mr hyde rep net I 1 wash naked him whether it if live the resident refused to take any neton acton tion on the resolutions their effect would be nothing sir lin hitt replied that lie he declined to entertain such a hypothesis a response that was waa greeted erected with tumultuous appl nuie BOUTELLE AGAINST CUBA mr riou telle rep moline maine who tho lias has steadily opposed tit the passage of 0 any cuban resolutions then took the floor door lie said he teg regretted retted his course and lie he til ought ills his attitude |