| Show CUBA LIBRE IN THE TRE SENATE senator cullom makes a strong argument for cuba spain continues what she has al at was been A robber nation A warm discussion of populism in the house several bills passed both branches washington dec DM 10 the independence of cuba and the recognition of the insurgents as a regularly organized government bad two advocates adoca tB in the senate today in the persons of senators cullom republican ill and call democrat fla mr cullom delivered a carefully cary fully pre prepared speech in support ort of his views while mr call contented him telf elf with a brief discus elve statement the bill to Te beatrict strict foreign immigration wa taken up ae as unfinished buel business nese a motion by mr gibeon gibson democrat maryland to postpone poet pone ite its consideration till the first monday in january having been defeated by a vote of 13 to 37 various amendments to the text of the bill were offered or suggested bat no action vaa was taken on any of them although they were discussed ft a couple ol 01 ho hours ursand and at p m the senate adjourned till monday on motion of mr aldrich ch republican it I 1 it was agreed that when the senate adjourned today it will be until monday A bill to authorize the judges of at united states district courts to ar appoint polut stenographers was introduced by mr alien allen neb and was i let erred to abe judiciary committee A resolution was offered by mr herman republican lican onto and was adopted for the appointment of three senators to make the necessary arrangements for the inauguration of the president elect on the ath of march next at the close of the morning business cs mr cullom addressed the senate oia the subject of cuban independence he prefaced bis his speech with the introduction of a joint resolution declaring that The extinction of spanish title and the termination of spanish control in the islands at the gateway of tue gulf of mexico are necessary lothe to abe welfare of and of at the people cf the united status states mr cullom after a brief reference to the presidents message in regard to the island of 0 cuba eaid said we are already placed in such a position that some certain course of action austbo must be adopted whatever cauree it u may bs b it must be such as shall give proper recognition to the rights under existing conditions belonging respect lively to spain and cuba it must also recognize the rights and prerogatives of the world at large of the tn nations and i the people who stand aloof and watch with deepest interest this struggle for independence depend euce and for liberty against absolutism aud and not the least of the responsibilities imposed upon us as a nation is the conservation of our own rights and interests in fact act this is the determining factor which bluet control our course while I 1 am not disposed to criticize president I 1 may way properly say a I 1 that I 1 bad hoped be he would tind lind occasion to give more positive or emphatic ei ex pree sion 0 of the true american continental policy which ought to be invoked in all cases where thu th libert liberty yand and I 1 inde pen dence of any af f the deop peoples es of all the american cont continent ineat are involved A and nd further I 1 think we ought never to hesitate or delay when the lines of bis this policy run parallel and coincident wilb those of common humanity there may be no warrant in international law for any interference between a government gove and its subjects provided that govern belongs to the family of nation sor is recognized as one of the powers of the earth still does not the great heart of humanity beat iu in sympathy with the poor souls apparently forgotten by the blaster and left to bear the burdens of cruel and relentless oppression ie in there no way no light no hope must the brutality of might alone define the allease a and mete out the penalty r with no human power to whom intercession may be made slaving sketched etched tk the career of the former spanish american rol po lonies sir cullom went on while all the provinces which have rebelled and separated from spain have become prosperous and well conditioned independent countries the feeble old mother country bad gradually fallen into loner lower and lower estate depend depending inc and almost relying for existence upon the etolen stolen gold levied upon cuba baert rico and island blands spain continues to be what ehe she ba has always been a robber nation I 1 speak now ol 01 th the nation itself and not 0 her ber people we violated every precedent by the declaration of our own independence on july we bad no precedent nor did we even ask for advice as to the change in 1789 from a confederation to a union of state when we announced the monroe doctrine in a 1823 it was in defiance of ot precedent and wai was the determination mi nation of a rule ruled which has become a law and will never be gainsaid gain said when we announced not many months ago that we should intervene in the matter of the venezuela boundary and see for ourselves if it our rights were tobe to be concluded by forel foreign ign diction we followed no rio precedent but hot that of good american common son sense so and common sense baa has won wan we havelow havelow reached the this time to take another step in advance we halve a already proclaimed that the united states will bavo have something to say regarding matters affecting the american continent nen t end and we should now announce that the termination of spanish Lp anish control of the islands a the gateway of the mexican gull is necessary alike te to the welfare of those islands and nd to the people of the united states the present situation cannot continue A population of white cubans und and colored cubans aggregating persons will never yield and ought never to submit to the bloody nAli military tary rule of the spanish element which bre always controlled and dominated cuba since it its discovery numbers only about on one tenth of its population columbus declared this ia Is the most tal land ever beheld behold by human eyes in ln October now in 1896 it is given over to Jo devastation and dett suction within its borders rages a war which on both beth sides ie is declared to be a war either of extermination mi nation on the one hand or liberty and spanish exclusion on the other this condition must ceana the spanish after two year haw tailed failed to establish peace and the insurgents have failed to reach their hoped loped or independence this war of extermination mr meet st stop this congress of clio he united states ha has 0 already recognized by solemn resolution the belligerent rights of cuba but so long as it has not roce received ived the executive approval it has DO lorce and anti if it it had dt ia ii conceded that some other course must be taken the question to be determined ter rained mined is not fully clear except that the be war must cease average gentleman spain is the object of ado adoration rattan but clain without cuba is to him the boil J without the eun sun arbe revenue from cuba has been the chief joy of apsan for many years and if it cuba should now nw be separated from the spanish throne the can son would cease to thine upon the alhambra cuba today ie is lost to spain lehe the public proclamation at of spanish defeat 6 may not have been officially and a announced bat in truth and fact the submission of cuba will never azain again be yielded as of old the tribute of to annually long exacted will never quin replenish the treasury of spain the struggle ii of IM 1895 and 1896 may sadly cripple cuba but they will ruin spain cuba with it wonderful soil eoll and climate and its unparalleled par alleW capabilities will wain in material wealth and growth under benign influences far more than ile has lout should the blood of her people spilled udon her oil yield a growth ot of independent citizenship consecrated consecrate 4 to lib I 1 arty this age is not ari nd age KB of f retro betro erce gref eion talon whatever may way be laid regarding our duty as a nation notion toward a driendl friendly y po power which is striving to suppress rees an inear in cuba still no one either in america or europe misunderstands the situation every humane heart american or foreign sympathizes deeply and sincerely not with the rapine and pillage b by jr which the insurgents in cuba eek seek to weaken their enemies but with the spirit which leads them to look oon con with bope hope toward the tar star of liberty which they believe will lead them to cuba libre the american people are coming to the consideration of the cuban situation as they already have in certain other cases as a great political question a continental tin question if you please and being a political continental question it will be decided ultimately by the continent whose interests are most clearly involved geographically considered cuba cannot belong to spain geographically cuba ie Is in american waters and politically it is entitled to statehood in the continent of american republics this treat great continental question therefore when stripped of all complications becomes in plain and aad timple lan an gua geue e shall cuba be frei free TE this country will never consent to the transformation trant formation of cuba into a slave pen tor for the hold holding ingin in servitude of the captured patriots and insurgents who are fighting for the dea dearetta de areata rests right rights of men we will not permit that island a land which has the brightest possibilities for people of intelligence and enterprise enterprises to be made tha the abiding place of death and destruction this war now being ware waed d is ts avowedly a war of extermination or utter crushing out oat of liberty on cubas square miles of territory think of it an island which in ordinary years exports export more emore than a million tons of sugar and many millions of dollars in value of other products lias ilas the united states no interest in our own trade and commerce with an island from which we receive fully 90 peir cent of the vast sugar product and much the larger part of all her other productions the interest of the united states counting all thinas passing between the two courtrier coun trier reach perhaps annually and already this trade has been practically wiped out I 1 believe it to be the duty of the united states to uee use the roat power attaching to th the nation to 0 o declare and to maintain as a prerogative of richt right te belonging longing genei generally rally to republicanism republican i on I 1 and specific specifically lly to this republic Ile Re that no charnel house of ruin shall be continued in the west indian waters whose waves beat at our very front gate any longer time than it shall require to breaz it up and if the duty of suppressing tim damning blot sand nd erasing i forever from sight eight shall all alne upon the united states eo so be b it have fave we fallen eo so lew low as to hav have for forgotten otten the sacrifices which men of genius and character and honor made in behalf of this country in its days 61 trouble we shall not stand alone in the warfare which way follow in beli belialon alof coniton coni uon humanity js nation after natios will moke joint cause with us in such suck a straggle struggle and when we lave succeeded suc ceded and have made ln into 0 liev the principle and ad made into history the net fact every other country worth naming will regret its cals takeda not participating 0 in the humane work the effort cannot fail fall we shall not wage any warfare for the acquisition of territory orv tor for ourselves eure elves we shall net I 1 claim dolla caff as a toward ateward for saving vine hir from the claughton toc r but we will not see that fair island turned again to the mercies of wild beasts and vultures of war whose coly ony co ly stimulus sti ati malus malas is gain cuba libre free cuba is the reward and what a glorious re wardwill that be every citizen of the united stites will feel that ble birthright as an american free man will mean thing 0 A settlement must be made cheso the account has bem open and running jwj aa e enough 11 ough to its ta settlement we may properly invite the corporation of all the republics of the american continent if uther means jail fail we may consider ithe propriety of a fa of cuba that method hae haa had ite shaia share of consideration under previous administrations alons it is not riot that we want the territory but we mean that the trouble shall meet a just settlement and conclusion the wisdom and deare tion of an american president and oc cabinet abinet can certa certainly Laly find a way to determine the trouble without imperiling the interest of our country or our people I 1 have little choice or pre terence as to the particular method but I 1 do waa and I 1 know the public expects a settlement in ln a humane and just basis the united states can do no lem low than to initiate this effort for humanity and liberty at the conclusion of mr Cul lome speech mr call dow fla then took ibe the floor and spoke on the cuban question mr calls joint resolution was at tile the close of his speech referred to the CONTINUAL 4 OS or atu 4 01 r ai CUBA LIBRE IN NHE SENATE FROM committee on foreign relations the bill to amend abe immigration lawe was then taken up aa unfinished busine s mr gabaon demm favored the postponement of the consideration of the bill till after the holidays mr lodge rep mass in charge of abe bill opposed any po tn mr gibson madello formal motion that abe bill be postponed until the elret monday in january abe senate by e tote of yeas 13 and nays 37 refused to postpone consideration atthe ball the senate substitute for the house bill was to and then abe substitute was open lor independent amendments i Mr Sewell republican new jersey moved to amend the first paragraph so as to make it exclude all persons over 14 years of aga who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other language except that an aged or minor person not so able to read or write who is the parent grandparent child or wife of an immigrant may accompany or be bent by such immigrant mr Vest Democrat ed against the application of the test of illiteracy to women and girls he assumed that really at the bottom of the whole question waa the restriction of immigrant votes ho did not see bow the workmanship or labor of a man who could not read or write debarred the labor workmanship of anybody else but certainly abe argument against illiterate immigration could not apply to domestic ts mr lodge replied to mr vests corn monte and said ane amendment offered by the senator from missouri should not be adopted as it would take away from the force and scope of the bill none too areat mr chandler republican I 1 II 11 also opposed mr vests amendment he reminded abe senate that the national conventions of both political parties had declared ic favor of abe restriction of immigration gation if be was wrong in that statement no one was more to correct him than the present occupant of abe chair mr hill democrat new york who was thoroughly familiar with these platforms laughter without action on either of the pending the senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business and at adjourned until monday the house washington DC 10 the house to day indulged in its farat political discus aioo sarcastic and in its nature it was provoked by the consider alion of a bill amending the law alien ownership of landa in the as to permit aliens to acquire possession under foreclosure of mortgage and hold the land for ten years within which period they must dispose of it hepburn republican iowa asked by what bight a dele sate from the territories bought to change a law now in accordance with the platform the inhabitants had approved by their votes at the last election A breezy discussion in which the ethics of populism were con ei dered |
