Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — CLEVELAND AND CUBA [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND AND CUBA

President Complies with the Request Made by the Senate. The President has transmitted to Congress without comment the correspondence called for by the Senate at the instance of Senator Hoar relative to the attempt at mediation made by the United States Government during the course of the preceding rebellion in Cuba. The correspondence covers the period from November 5,1875, to August, 1876, and comprises about 400 typewritten pages. A great part of it has already been made public, some of it in Wharton’s digest of international law and some in correspondence formerly supplied to Congress. The leading feature is the letter of Secretary Fish to United States Minister Caleb Cushing at Madrid in 1875 setting out at great length the evils of the situation as it then existed in Cuba and suggesting reforms that the Spanish Government should put into operation in Cuba to correct these abuses. Copies of this note were submitted to all of the courts of Europe, apparently to pave the way for the intervention that was hinted at in case Spain failed to profit by the suggestions of Mr. Fish, but the concluding shatters of the correspond-

ence slow, as is well known now, that the efforts to intervene came to nffnght and that the recognition of the ency of the insurgents was held up by our Government