Belligerent Rights for Cuba (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Tyler Morgan

 
9781331343387: Belligerent Rights for Cuba (Classic Reprint)

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January 29, 1S9G. y, ARIN CUBA. Mr. MORGAN said: Mr. President: i am directed by the Committee on Foreign Relations to repoa tloack a nnmber of petitions on tlie subject of recognizing the belligerent rights of Cuba: also a joint resolution offered by the Senator from Florida M r. Gall ,S enate joint resolution 4, declaring that a state of public war exists in Cuba, and that belligerent rights be accorded to the Cuban Government. I report back as a substitute two resolutions, which I will read, accompanied by a vv ritten report. The report is brief, and explains the attitude of the cmrnittee tovvard these questions. I will read it: The Congress of tlie United States, deeply regretting tlie unliapp3r state of hostilities existing in Cuba, which has again been the result of the demand of a large number of the native population of that island for its independence, in a spirit of respect and regard for the welfare of both countries, earnestly desires that the security of life and property and the establishment of permanent peace and of a government that is satisfactory to the people of Cuba should be accomplished. And to the extent that the people of Cuba are seeking the rights of local self-government for domestic purposes, the Congress of tlae TJ nited States expresses its earnest sympathy with them. The Congress would also welcome with satisfaction the concession by Spain of comj Dlete sovereignty to the people of that island, and would cheerfully give to such a voluntary concession the cordial support of the United States. The near proximity of Cuba to the frontier of the United States, and the fact that it is universally rey garded as a part of the continental system of A merica, identifies that island so closely with the political and commercial welfare of our peoisle that Congress can not be indifferent to the fact that civil war is flagrant among the peo
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