Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1898 — CUBAN CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

CUBAN CONGRESS.

Formally Opened by Gen. Blanco—ln Speech He Suy* United States Was Insincere. Havana, May 6. The Cuban congress, elected under the autonomist government, was formally opened Wednesday with great ceremony. Capt.-Gen. Blanco made a speech, In the course of which he said that if the declaration of the United States had been sincere its guns to-day ought to be saluting the first Cuban parliament, instead of threatening the lives of the IDAID K****'